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Finding A Way Around The World’s Largest Oil Chokepoint
Finding A Way Around The World’s Largest Oil Chokepoint Oil is sometimes referred to as ‘black gold’. The discovery and export of fossil fuels have led to tremendous wealth creation for certain countries. In this sense, no region in the world is more blessed than the Middle East. Especially the countries surrounding the Persian Gulf […]
12 Empty Supertankers Tell Us Everything We Need To Know About The Oil Market
12 Empty Supertankers Tell Us Everything We Need To Know About The Oil Market As the US battles with its OPEC+ rivals over the direction of global oil prices (Trump wants to keep oil prices subdued, while Saudi Arabia and Russia, reeling from years of prices too low to balance their budgets, are desperately hoping […]
Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims
Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims TransCanada’s claim that the southern route of the Keystone XL Pipeline is the safest pipeline ever built in the in the United States is challenged by the release of new documentation confirming multiple code violations. Daily inspection reports on the construction […]
Nationwide Resistance To Crude Oil ‘Bomb Trains’ Gaining Momentum
Nationwide Resistance To Crude Oil ‘Bomb Trains’ Gaining Momentum The speed and scale with which the oil and rail industries created the North American oil-by-rail infrastructure was impressive. And amazingly under the radar for the most part — until the trains started derailing and blowing up — leading to articles with titles like “The Invisible Bomb Trains.” […]
New Oil-By-Rail Regulations Are Big Win for Oil and Rail Industries, Won’t Stop “Bomb Trains”
New Oil-By-Rail Regulations Are Big Win for Oil and Rail Industries, Won’t Stop “Bomb Trains” The long-awaited oil-by-rail regulations released today are basically a guidebook for the oil and rail industries to continue doing business as usual when it comes to moving explosive Bakken crude oil by rail. DeSmog recently reported on how the Obama administration has worked behind the […]
New Report Warns of West Coast Tar Sands Oil Invasion
New Report Warns of West Coast Tar Sands Oil Invasion The West Coast of the United States and Canada is facing an imminent tar sands oil invasion, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). “The West Coast is about to fall victim to a tar sands invasion, unless our leaders choose to […]
Oil-by-Rail Reality: Watch What Industry Does, Not What They Say
Oil-by-Rail Reality: Watch What Industry Does, Not What They Say “In the past month, there have been numerous public relations efforts suggesting that much is being done to improve oil by rail safety. Unfortunately, it seems these efforts will not involve much more than press releases and hollow promises.” Those words were first published on DeSmogBlog […]
