Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills up to 50,000 Gallons of Oil on Indigenous Land in BC
Olivia Rosane – The spill occurred early Saturday morning at the pipeline’s Sumas Pump Station, Trans Mountain told CBC News.
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20,000 Ton Oil Spill in Russian Arctic Has ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ for Wildlife
Olivia Rosane – Russian President Vladimir Putin declared an emergency after 20,000 tons of diesel fuel spilled into a river in the Arctic Circle.
Alberta Energy Minister Calls Pandemic ‘a Great Time’ to Build Pipelines Due to Protest Restrictions
Olivia Rosane – Savage made the comments while speaking on a Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors podcast.
Plastic Bottle Made From Plants Degrades in Just One Year
Jordan Davidson – One company is looking to end the need for plastic bottles that last hundreds of years and are rarely recycled.
3 States Pass Anti-Pipeline Protest Bills in Two Weeks
Olivia Rosane – In just two weeks, three states have passed laws criminalizing protests against fossil fuel infrastructure.
Gas Pipeline Rupture Injures 46, Forces 300 to Evacuate in Mississippi
Olivia Rosane – More than 300 people were forced to evacuate and 46 were sent to the hospital after a gas pipeline ruptured in Mississippi Saturday.
Trump Admin Finalizes ‘Atrocious’ Plans to Allow Drilling and Mining on Gutted National Monuments
Olia Rosane – The Trump administration finalized plans Thursday to open public lands in Utah to the fossil fuel industry.
Mainstream Media Finally Admits Legal Hemp is the Answer to Dependency on Big Oil
Matt Agorist – The paradigm is shifting.
‘Nail in the Coffin’ as Australia Plans to Dump More Than 1 Million Tons of Sludge in Great Barrier Reef Waters
Olivia Rosane – The Great Barrier Reef faces yet “another nail in the coffin.”
Big Oil Is Covering Up these 5 Health Dangers of Fracking
Sofia Adamson – Despite these well-established dangers of fracking wastewater, there are very few regulations in place to protect the public.
Ireland Follows Germany, France and Bulgaria with Ban on Fracking – “We’ve Made History”
Vic Bishop – Ireland is working towards creating independence from fossil fuels.
Wyoming Moves to Ban Wind and Solar Power for Use by Electric Utilities
Vic Bishop – State lawmakers are pushing to prevent utility companies from using solar and wind power.
Portugal Powers Itself for Four Straight Days with 100% Renewable Energy
Terence Newton – Portugal is the most recent nation to prove that renewable energies are the future.
Tesla’s Work Re-Created
Derrick Broze – Could Jim Murray continue Tesla’s work and help solve the world’s energy problems?
5 Countries That Prove the World Doesn’t Need Fossil Fuels
Jake Anderson – Environmentally-minded nations of the world increasingly embrace alternative energy sources.
Money or Environment – What is Motivating US Cities to Switch to Renewable Power?
Anna Hunt – Policy makers and utilities companies realize the environmental impact of our dependence on fossil fuels. Is this the reason many are purchasing renewable power?
Canadian Company Called U.S. Oil Sands Will Soon Start Extracting Utah’s Tar Sands
Anne Landman, DeSmogBlog Waking Times Think only Canadians need to worry about tar sands extraction? Think again. In October, U.S. Oil Sands, Inc. joined Kentucky-based Arrakis Oil Recovery as the second company to receive a permit to produce U.S. tar sands. The Utah Water Quality Board gave U.S. Oil Sands a permit to extract 2,000 barrels of oil per day from …
Disastrous Day in Fossil Fuels: WV coal slurry spill, PA gas well explosion, ND gas explosion
Mike G, DeSmogBlog Waking Times West Virginia officials are reporting that a coal slurry line at the Kanawha Eagle Prep Plant, which belongs to Patriot Coal, ruptured and spilled a toxic byproduct from the coal mining and preparation process into a creek that feeds the Kanawha River early this morning. More than 100,000 gallons of slurry spilled, and …
Is Industrial Hemp The Ultimate Energy Crop?
Thomas Prade, The Conversation Waking Times Bioenergy is currently the fastest growing source of renewable energy. Cultivating energy crops on arable land can decrease dependency on depleting fossil resources and it can mitigate climate change. But some biofuel crops have bad environmental effects: they use too much water, displace people and create more emissions than they save. This has …
Scientists Make Crude Oil in Laboratory in About an Hour
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times As the world continues to seek energy solutions that may alleviate some of the big problems associated with fossil fuel extraction, new ideas and inventions are being made possible with technological advances. At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, scientists and engineers have developed a new process to convert a green …