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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…

Thune Forgets Own Obstructionist Addiction to Cheap Oil

Does anyone else hear Senator John Thune's cognitive dissonance on energy policy? Check out his comments in this Thursday interview with SDPB: If oil prices go up to $100 a barrel, or worse yet $150 a barrel, and you see…

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…

Nebraskans Protest Keystone XL; Clinton May Be Listening

More evidence that Nebraskans are serious about their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline: over a hundred citizens rallied at the Nebraska State Capitol on the Legislature's opening day last week to call for limits on eminent domain and tougher…

Big Oil Fights EPA 15% Ethanol Rule

Business is complicated. This week three Big Oil groups---the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, the International Liquid Terminals Association, and the Western States Petroleum Association---asked District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's increase of…

TransCanada Digging Up Keystone Pipeline, Checking for "Anomalies"

That Sioux Falls paper reports that TransCanada is digging up six 120-foot stretches of the Keystone I pipeline here in South Dakota, three sites in Nebraska, and one in Missouri. TransCanada reports "anomalies" in the pipeline: During a November inspection…

TransCanada Keystone Leak #4: Hartington Pump Station Spews

Check that: it's apparently not the pipeline we have to worry about; it's those darn leaky pump stations. Carrie La Seur of Plains Justice gets the scoop on the fourth documented leak along TransCanada's Keystone I tar sands pipeline. According…