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Safety Officials Order Partial Shutdown of Sabine Pass LNG Export Facility After Discovering 10-Year History of Leaks
Safety Officials Order Partial Shutdown of Sabine Pass LNG Export Facility After Discovering 10-Year History of Leaks Sabine Pass, the only liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in the country, has reportedly been experiencing safety issues for the past decade, and yet federal safety officials were only informed of this history while investigating the terminal’s latest […]
Is This New Tar Sands Technology a Game Changer for Exporting Canada’s Bitumen?
Is This New Tar Sands Technology a Game Changer for Exporting Canada’s Bitumen? A new technology has the potential to transform the transportation of tars sands oil. Right now, the already thick and slow-flowing oil, known as bitumen, has to be diluted with a super-light petroleum product, usually natural gas condensate, in order for it to flow […]
Energy CEO Says Fracking Build-out in New York Not Over, Wants Regulators to ‘Lay Down and Approve Every Pipeline’
Energy CEO Says Fracking Build-out in New York Not Over, Wants Regulators to ‘Lay Down and Approve Every Pipeline’ At a pipeline industry conference in Pittsburgh on January 31, Robert G. Phillips, CEO and President of Crestwood Equity Partners, offered an unusually candid perspective on pipelines, fracking, environmental regulations, and how industry plans to fight back […]
How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims Much of the public discussion about climate science consists of a stream of assertions. The climate is changing or it isn’t; carbon dioxide causes global warming or it doesn’t; humans are partly responsible or they are not; scientists have a rigorous process of peer review […]
This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells
This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells If you’d met John Werring four years ago, he wouldn’t have been able to tell you what an abandoned gas well looked like. “We had no idea whether they were even accessible,” said the registered professional biologist. That was before the summer of 2014, […]
As Trump Unfurls Infrastructure Plan, Iowa Bill Seeks to Criminalize Pipeline Protests
As Trump Unfurls Infrastructure Plan, Iowa Bill Seeks to Criminalize Pipeline Protests The Iowa Senate has advanced a bill which critics say could lead to the criminalization of pipeline protests, which are being cast as “terrorist activities.” Dakota Access pipeline owner Energy Transfer Partners and other companies have lobbied for the bill, Senate Study Bill 3062, which opens up the […]
How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery
How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery When a Canadian federal-provincial environmental review panel ruled in 2007 that a proposed quarry would go against community core values and would threaten right whales and other marine life in the Bay of Fundy, groups that had fought against the project […]
Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell’s Falcon Pipeline
Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell’s Falcon Pipeline At the end of 2017, Shell ran slightly afoul of Pennsylvania state regulators after filing a pipeline permit application to the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed to show sensitive environmental areas in the path of its proposed […]
New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas
New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the long-time king of fossil fuels, coal. In 2019, more than a third of America’s electrical supply will come from natural gas, […]
Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill
Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill The Trump administration is proposing to ease regulations that were adopted to make offshore oil and gas drilling operations safer after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. This event was the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Eleven workers died in the explosion […]
Why Americans Will Never Agree on Oil Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Why Americans Will Never Agree on Oil Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge After decades of bitter struggle, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seems on the verge of being opened to the oil industry. The consensus tax bill Republicans recently passed retains this measure, which was added to gain the key vote of Alaska Sen. […]
Will Canada’s Latest Boom in Tar Sands Oil Mean Another Boom for Oil-by-Rail?
Will Canada’s Latest Boom in Tar Sands Oil Mean Another Boom for Oil-by-Rail? Nothing seems able to derail the rise in Canadian tar sands oil production. Low prices, canceled pipelines, climate realities, a major oil company announcing it will no longer develop heavy oils, divestment, and now even refusals to insure tar sands pipelines have all certainly slowed […]
A 12-Year-Old Bet on Global Warming Is About to Pay Out
A 12-Year-Old Bet on Global Warming Is About to Pay Out A climate change modeler who bet two Russian solar physicists $10,000 that the world would get warmer appears to have easily won the 2005 wager with less than two weeks to go. British scientist James Annan says he is “confident” that he has won his […]
Trump Eyes Arctic Wildlife Refuge for Oil Drilling, Alarming Gwich’in
Trump Eyes Arctic Wildlife Refuge for Oil Drilling, Alarming Gwich’in In the remote north-eastern corner of Alaska, just under 20-million acres have been set aside as a federal protected area since 1960. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has recently come under threat, however, with President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior proposing lifting restrictions on seismic exploration. […]
How Has the US Fracking Boom Affected Air Pollution in Shale Areas?
How Has the US Fracking Boom Affected Air Pollution in Shale Areas? Urban air pollution in the U.S. has been decreasing near continuously since the 1970s. Federal regulations, notably the Clean Air Act passed by President Nixon, to reduce toxic air pollutants such as benzene, a hydrocarbon, and ozone, a strong oxidant, effectively lowered their abundance […]
