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…
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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…
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…
TransCanada's Keystone pipeline system is now up to five reported leaks in our neighborhood. According to a National Response Center incident report tracked down by Ms. La Seur at Plains Justice, Pump Station #20 up in the Andover-Ferney metroplex here…
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…
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…
GPTSP points out a fun little rhetorical knot from TransCanada CEO Russ Girling, who argues that the debate over his company's proposed Keystone XL pipeline should have no connection with the debate over the tar sands it will carry: "I…