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The Problem with the Pipeline

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would start in the town of Hardisty, which about a hundred and twenty-eight miles southeast of Edmonton. It would cross the Canadian-U.S. border in Montana, jog through western South Dakota, then head down through Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma all the way to refine...

Yellowstone Cleanup Will Take More People

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 24 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Exxon Mobil Corp will bring in more people to mop up oil from a broken pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River as receding floodwaters reveal new contamination, federal officials said Friday.Also Friday, Montana environmental regulators said the pipeline may have leaked up to 1,200 barrels of oil int...

Oil Spilled Into Montana's Yellowstone River

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 in Earth Violators

LAUREL, Mont. — Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the ...

BP Wins a Big One in Oil Spill Litigation

Posted by amir on Monday, 20 June 2011 in Oil Spill

Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant. "Th...

Drilling in the Gulf

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 08 April 2011 in Oil Spill

Federal regulators on Friday gave Statoil permission to drill a deep-water well - the 10th project approved since such work was halted after last year's Gulf spill. Under the permit, Statoil will be allowed to drill a new well in 7,813 feet of water in its Logan prospect, 219 miles off the Louisian...

Gas Prices Go Up, is a Solution in Sight?

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 in Fossil Fuels

AS THE PRICE OF OIL roars above $100 per barrel and gasoline nears $4 per gallon, a cry for solutions understandably goes up. Higher gas prices amount to a regressive tax increase on the American consumer, with all that implies for the ability of the U.S. and global economies to sustain thei...