South Dakota's Board of Minerals and Environment has given Wharf Resources permission to continue the legacy of General Custer and expand its gold mining operations near the base of Terry Peak here in the Black Hills. Mr. Mercer reports that…
Posts tagged as “Keystone”
We American should be alarmed that TransCanada's Keystone oil pipeline suffered twelve reported leaks, in its first year of operation. We can take only twisted comfort in this report that during that time, TransCanada leaked all over its home soil…
TransCanada is dialing down the pressure on its leaky Keystone pipeline to replace bad pumping station parts. Apparently the Canadian land-grabber is attributing the frequent leaks at its pumping stations (the Calgary Herald says 14 in the past year, but…
This just in: Our friends at the Environmental Protection Agency have declared the State Department still hasn't done enough environmental homework to justify issuing a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. In a letter issued yesterday, EPA…
Fossil fuels may be our future, but that doesn't excuse TransCanada's spilling them like a drunken sailor all over the prairie. (Wait a minute: what's a sailor doing on the prairie...?) After the twelfth leak in twelve months on the…
There are faces only a mother can love. Then there are statements only a corporate Newspeaker can believe: "We've demonstrated we have built a very safe pipeline system because we haven't had a leak on our pipeline," says Terry Cunha,…
Oil prices are up again, thanks in part to another shutdown of TransCanada's Keystone oil pipeline caused by the twelfth pumping station leak on the system in one year of operation. A pumping station in Kansas spewed 40 barrels of…
Canadian tar sands oil has been flowing again beneath our fair prairie with minimal incident this week. TransCanada's Keystone pipeline, which was only supposed to leak maybe once every seven years, blew a pumping station gasket for the eleventh time…