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Posts tagged as “Keystone XL”

TransCanada Responsible for High Gas Prices, But Not Its Own Oil?

Hat tip to Great Plains Tar Sands Pipelines! The South Dakota press remains silent on this story, but the Minneapolis Star-Tribune has picked up the story that TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline would raise fuel prices in the…

HB 1189: Pipeline Tax Rides Again!

Governor Daugaard insists that we can't raise taxes. He frets that taxes now could hinder economic growth, even though his 10% budget cuts could do even more damage to the South Dakota economy. So Governor Daugaard, tell us what's not…

TransCanada Follies: Sell to China, Co-Opt Enviromental Panel

A couple weeks ago, Plains Justice brought to my attention a persuasive argument that TransCanada's real customers for the tar sands oil it wants to ship across the prairie in the Keystone XL pipeline are not the Americans from whom…

HB 1177 Too Late to Block Eminent Domain for Keystone XL?

I am heartened to see a bipartisan team of legislators backing eminent domain reform in Pierre. House Bill 1177 would tighten the rules for private corporations trying to take South Dakotans' land for their use. The rules include requiring that…

TransCanada Using Keystone to Raise Oil Prices

TransCanada has told us their Keystone pipeline system will be "good for America, good for South Dakota." Unlike certain big-energy mouthpieces, I have challenged that marketing assertion. Now the National Wildlife Federation finds industry documents that prove the Keystone pipelines…

TransCanada Signs Bakken Contracts, Catches Heck

TransCanada has signed contracts with U.S. oil suppliers to carry Bakken shale oil in the Keystone XL pipeline. Suppliers in North Dakota and Montana have signed contracts to send 65,000 barrels a day down to Oklahoma alongside TransCanada's tar sands…

Oklahoma Family Sues to Block Eminent Domain for Keystone XL

DirtyOilSands.org announces that an Oklahoma family is suing in state district court to block TransCanada from using eminent domain to acquire rights-of-way to build the Keystone XL pipeline. "The Landowners' property cannot be legally taken by... a privately-owned foreign corporate…

Build Keystone XL to Boost Oil Supply… for China?

Hat tip to Plains Justice! I've noted previously that TransCanada has a hard time making the economic case for its Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Gasoline demand in the United States is currently at a five-year low. That demand…