Category Archives: Pipeline

With oil pipeline to US on hold, Canada eyes China

By doris | Published: January 30, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com KITAMAAT VILLAGE, British Columbia — The latest chapter in Canada’s quest to become a full-blown oil superpower unfolded this month in a village gym on the British Columbia coast. Here, several hundred people gathered for hearings on whether a pipeline should be laid from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific [...]

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Obama administration rejects Keystone pipeline permit

By doris | Published: January 18, 2012

Full Story at FoxNews.com President Obama announced Wednesday that he will deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, blaming Republicans for imposing a “rushed and arbitrary deadline” which he said did not give officials enough time. GOP lawmakers immediately excoriated the president for the decision. House Speaker John Boehner said Obama is “selling out [...]

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More illegal immigrants from India crossing border

By doris | Published: July 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS FRESNOS, Texas — Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms. The Indians, whose hiding space was furnished only [...]

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Oil spill on Montana’s Yellowstone River forces evacuation

By doris | Published: July 3, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – An undetermined amount of crude oil spilled from an ExxonMobil pipeline into the Yellowstone River in Montana, prompting evacuations of nearby residents on Saturday, authorities said. The spill that was detected early Saturday came from a crude oil pipeline that runs from Silver Tip to Billings, Montana, [...]

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Gas pipeline to Jordan set ablaze in Egypt

By doris | Published: February 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A pipeline that sends natural gas to Jordan was set on fire in the Egyptian Sinai town of El Arish on Saturday, and the suspected act of sabotage has forced its temporary closing, officials said. Ghaleb Al Maabreh, head of Jordan’s national electricity company, confirmed the closing. He said [...]

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U.S.: 3,500 unused Gulf wells must be plugged

By doris | Published: September 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — Oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico will have to permanently plug nearly 3,500 temporarily abandoned wells and dismantle about 650 production platforms that are no longer used, the Obama administration announced Wednesday. The move comes as the energy industry voices complaints that it is being [...]

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Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide

By doris | Published: September 14, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there. Utilities have been under pressure for years to better inspect and replace aging gas [...]

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Latest Gulf oil rig problem differs from BP spill

By doris | Published: September 3, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW ORLEANS – Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Mostly notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions don’t end there. Even though the Mariner Energy-owned [...]

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Pipeline leak pollutes major Michigan river

By doris | Published: July 28, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MARSHALL TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Crews were working Tuesday to contain and clean up more than 800,000 gallons of oil that poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan, coating birds and fish. Authorities in Battle Creek and Emmett Township warned residents about the strong odor from [...]

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No oil leaking as BP conducts critical pressure tests in Gulf oil well

By doris | Published: July 16, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — A highly anticipated test designed to measure pressure within BP’s ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well finally began Thursday, and for the first time in nearly three months, oil stopped flowing into the Gulf. The move was lauded by a variety of officials as a positive [...]

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New cap on ruptured oil well faces key tests

By doris | Published: July 13, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP plans to begin testing the new cap on its ruptured deepwater well Tuesday — a move that officials hope will be a step on the way to stopping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. “This test involves closing one or more of the [...]

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3 burned in gas explosion in Oklahoma

By doris | Published: June 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Three workers were burned Tuesday when a gas line exploded in a rural area west of Pocasset, Oklahoma, according to Deputy Chief Brian Zalewski of the Chickasha, Oklahoma, fire department. Zalewski told CNN all three workers were taken to an Oklahoma City hospital, suffering from injuries caused by burns [...]

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Sheriff: 2 dead in Texas pipeline blast

By doris | Published: June 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com DARROUZETT, Texas – Two men removing clay from a pit in a remote part of the Texas Panhandle were killed when a natural gas line exploded, a sheriff said Tuesday. The blast near Darrouzett, about 270 miles northeast of Lubbock, was the second fatal natural gas explosion in Texas in as [...]

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