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Oil & Gas News Archive (2013)

Date yyyy-mm-dd	Posted By	Article Link	Comment
2013-12-31	Daily Mail (UK)	North Dakota town evacuated after multiple explosions from train carrying soybeans derailed and was struck by train carrying crude oil	Ryan Gorman and Associated Press
2013-12-31	Bloomberg	Crude on the Move	Tim Catts
2013-12-31	ABC News	Mayor: ND Town Dodged a Bullet in Crude Explosion	Dave Kolpack
2013-12-30	Shale Reporter	Fracking: Flight Risk	Miranda C. Spencer - Williston, North Dakota
2013-12-29	Aljazeera America	Researchers find 7,300-mile ring of mercury around tar sands in Canada	Peter Moskowitz
2013-12-27	Vancouver Sun	Stephen Hume: Pipeline debate shaping up as propaganda war	Stephen Hume
2013-12-25	Business Insider (USA)	The EPA Screwed Up When It Dropped This Fracking Investigation	Douwe Miedema, Reuters
2013-12-24	EcoNews / Earthworks (USA)	Inspector General Finds EPA Justified in Intervening to Protect Drinking Water from Fracking
2013-12-21	Kai Nagata	Blog: Are you an eco-Jihadist?	Kai Nagata
2013-12-20	Yahoo / Reuters (USA)	Insight: To flee Ohio oil boom, Amish cash out by selling royalties	Ernest Scheyder
2013-12-13	Observer	Greenhouse gas emission down at Sarnia site
2013-12-13	EcoWatch / Oil Change International	Interactive Tool Tracks Tars Sands Refinery Production in North America	Lorne Stockman
2013-12-11	Live Science	Fracking Could Dispose of Nuclear Waste, Scientist Says	Tia Ghose Link to AWARE-Ontario Nuclear News
2013-12-10	Bloomberg	Gas Pipeline Boom Fragmenting Pennsylvania’s Forests	Naveena Sadasivam
2013-12-10	Youtube / The Real News	Video:  Significant Increase in Oil Transport by Rail Raises Chances of Spills pt 2
2013-12-09	CBC	Jackpine Mine will destroy wetlands and wildlife, First Nations say	Angela Sterritt
2013-12-05	Battle Creek Enquirer (USA)	Enbridge sues Fredonia Farms over creek access	Jennifer Bowman Kalamazoo River cleanup (2010)
2013-12-04	Globe and Mail	Canada should refine own resources rather than exporting, Mulcair says	Shawn McCarthy
2013-12-04	Daily Mail (UK)	It looks like a puddle with petrol glistening on the surface… but this is the mighty Niger Delta defiled by repeated spills by oil companies	Chris Pleasance
2013-12-04	Capital Pro	Environmental group warns of fracking waste on NY roads	Scott Waldman
2013-12-03	EcoWatch / Environment America	Martin Sheen Exposé on Fracking to Air on Public TV	Youtube video (8 mins)
2013-12-02	EcoWatch / Public Herald	Aerial Video of Alabama Oil Spill Exposes Inadequate Cleanup	Melissa Troutman
2013-12-02	Globe and Mail	Inside the oil-shipping free-for-all that brought disaster to Lac-Mégantic	Grant Robertson and Jacquie McNish (Link to AO Rail coverage)
2013-12-01	Youtube / gazzornenplat	Rex Murphy energy speech in Alberta, November 2013 (18 mins)	Rex Murphy (Mitrovica article)
2013-12-01	Youtube / Gayzer Frackman (UK)	Walk the Walk – Helen Chuntso’s at No 10	Letter against fracking from Barton Moss Protection Camp
2013-11-30	Rt.com	Massachusetts seeks 10-yr ban on gas fracking after series of Texas quakes	AO earthquake info
2013-11-29	Financial Post	Vivian Krause: New U.S. funding for the war on Canadian oil	Vivian Krause
2013-11-29	O.Canada.com	Memo told Joe Oliver that oilsands leak was unexplained	Mike De Souza
2013-11-28	Fox 4 News (USA)	Pipeline explosion rocks parts of Missouri
2013-11-28	RT.com	Fracking to blame? Texas rocked by 16 earthquakes in last 3 weeks
2013-11-27	Independent (UK)	Barton Moss: The latest front line in Britain’s unconventional energy revolution against fracking	Jonathan Brown
2013-11-26	San Francisco CBS (USA)	Oil Company Caught Illegally Dumping Fracking Discharge In Central Valley
2013-11-25	Marlo Thomas	Fracking And What You Can Do About It, From Erin Brockovich (VIDEO)
2013-11-25	Daily Messenger USA (mpnnow.com)	Richmond receives fracking report	Julie Sherwood - town preparing to oppose fracking
2013-11-25	Globe and Mail	Why is Canada backing oil over other industries?	Eric Reguly
2013-11-22	Tom Wilber Blog (USA)	Cabot buys second polluted residential property in Dimock 12-acre parcel on Carter Road flanked by faulty gas wells
2013-11-22	Dr. A.R. Ingraffea	Video: Latest Evidence on Leaky Gas Wells (2.5 hrs)
2013-11-22	CBC News	Canadian oil production to rise 75% by 2035, NEB says
2013-11-22	CBC News	Energy sector key to economy, poll suggests	The Canadian Press
2013-11-21	CBC News	News clip:  Albertans demand Baytex Energy shutdown	Peace River
2013-11-21	Bloomberg Businessweek	Canada’s Tar Sands Oil Boom Yields Toxic Wastewater Lakes	Jeremy van Loon
2013-11-21	EcoWatch / Policy Matters Ohio	Six-State Study Confirms Job Numbers Exaggerated by Fracking Industry	Policy Matters Ohio
2013-11-21	EcoWatch	House Approves Bill to Fast Track Fracking on Public Lands	Environment America, Earthjustice
2013-11-20	Guardian	Which companies caused global warming?	Duncan Clark and Kiln
2013-11-15	EcoWatch / Daryl Hannah	Fracking’s Dirty Little Secret	Daryl Hannah, Diane Moss
2013-11-15	Ring of Fire Radio (USA)	Gas Pipeline Explodes Prompting Evacuation of Texas Town	Milford, Texas, USA
2013-11-13	EcoWatch / Resource Media	Fracking the American Dream:  Drilling Decreases Property Value
2013-11-12	Environmental Defence	Reality Check:  Air Pollution and the Tar Sands
2013-11-11	Globe and Mail	Ontario must stand ground on pipeline projects, report says	Shawn McCarthy
2013-11-10	Intelligence Wheeling News-Register (USA)	Pipeline Problems Mounting	Casey Junkins
2013-11-07	EcoWatch / DeSmogBlog (USA)	Fracking Victim Sued for Defamation After Proving Drinking Water Flammable	Julie Dermansky
2013-11-05	EcoWatch / Brandon Baker	World’s Richest Countries Spent $500 Billion on Fossil Fuel Subsidies	Brandon Baker
2013-11-02	Associated Press	Suits Claim Love Canal Still Oozing 35 Years Later	Carolyn Thompson
2013-10-31	Financial Post	Top Halliburton executive sips fracking fluid with colleagues in industry show stunt	Yadullah Hussain
2013-10-31	E&E Publishing (USA)	Pipelines:  How an obscure tariff case turned into an industry nightmare	Elana Schor
2013-10-30	Tow Row Times	Ontario’s shale-gas: The next ‘fracking’ frontier	Steve da Silva
2013-10-30	EcoNews / EcoWatch	New Report Exposes Impacts of Fracking on Water	Water Resource Reporting and Water Footprint from Marcellus Shale Development in West Virginia and Pennsylvania
2013-10-29	Ring of Fire Radio (USA)	Hundreds of North Dakota Oil Spills have gone Unreported	Alisha Mims
2013-10-28	MySanAntonio.com	Company that uses natural gas for fracturing files for bankruptcy	Zain Shauk - Green Field Energy Services
2013-10-28	CBC News	Pipeline safety incident rate doubled in past decade	Amber Hildebrandt
2013-10-28	ThinkProgress.org	People Who Live Downwind Of Alberta’s Oil And Tar Sands Operations Are Getting Blood Cancer	Katie Valentine
2013-10-27	Youtube / Julie Dermansky	Video:  Steven Lipsky Speaks Out (1min)	- having water issues in the U.S.A.
2013-10-25	CBC News	New environmental review rules anger oilsands critics
2013-10-24	EcoWatch / Ted Glick (USA)	Proposed Fracked-Gas Export Facility from Maryland to Asia Vehemently Opposed	Ted Glick
2013-10-23	National Geographic	Russia Floats Plan for Nuclear Power Plants at Sea	Patrick J. Kiger - intended to power oil and gas exploration in the Arctic - AO Info:  Nuclear News
2013-10-23	Toronto Star	Can we count on high-tech pipeline leak detection?	Jessica McDiarmid
2013-10-23	Sierra Club	Blog: Mi’kmaq of Elsipogtog First Natin deserve more than a dawn police raid	John Bennett
2013-10-23	Calgary Herald	Air pollution north of Edmonton as bad as world’s largest cities: study
2013-10-23	Science World Report	Heavy Air Pollution in Canada Linked to Cancer Spikes in rural Region	Catherine Griffin news release Atmospheric Environment
2013-10-22	CBC News	Shale gas company loses bid for injunction to halt N.B. protests	New Brunswick SWN Resources Canada
2013-10-22	Edmonton Journal	Province orders Canadian Natural Resources to find source of bitumen leaks	Karen Kleiss “CNRL first reported the leaks in May and June and Potter said the company still does not know what is causing the bitumen to flow up through fissures in the ground.”
2013-10-21	Theguardian (blog)	New Brunswick fracking protests are the frontline of a democratic fight	Martin Lukacs
2013-10-21	CBC News	Rexton protests won’t hinder N.S. fracking revew	Nova Scotia
2013-10-21	The Tyee	Home, Fracked Home: Lost Hair and Dead Cows	Hans Asfeldt, Alison Bortolon Phosgene, dibromoacetonitrile
2013-10-21	Vancouver Sun	Most Canadians oppose natural-gas “fracking”	Natalie Stechyson
2013-10-21	CBC	NB chiefs want shale exploration permits suspended
2013-10-19	Canoe.ca	Protesters threaten Sun News reporter, 3 other journalists in New Brunswick	QMI Agency [Toronto Sun Coverage] Daily Herald Tribune
2013-10-19	National Post	Anti-fracking protesters threaten reporter, seize news vehicle and camera	The Canadian Press
2013-10-19	Toronto Star	New Brunswick fracking protesters seize media equipment	The Canadian Press “The protesters, some of whom were members of the Elsipogtog First Nation, were demonstrating for weeks against the development of a shale gas sector in the province.”
2013-10-19	CTV News	13 train cars carrying liquid petroleum gas, crude oil derail in Alberta
2013-10-19	Toronto Sun	Protesters threaten Sun News reporter, 3 other journalists in New Brunswick	QMI Agency
2013-10-18	CBC News Calgary	Alberta signs energy pact with China
2013-10-17	Environmental Defence	The tar sands don’t have a PR problem. They have a real problem.	Cdn federal gov’t launching a $24 million advertising campaign
2013-10-15	EcoWatch / Amazon Watch	Chevron Sues Rainforest Communities It Contaminated (Ecuador)	Kevin Koenig - deliberate violations by Texaco to save money - Texaco was purchased by Chevron in 2001
2013-10-12	Vancouver Sun	Group blasts oilsands in U.S.	William Marsden - five prominent Cdn environmentalists
2013-10-11	The Province	Response to B.C. oil spill would be devastatingly slow and incomplete: Report	Gordon Hoekstra
2013-10-09	Guardian	Canadian spies met with energy firms documents reveal	Martin Lukacs and Tim Groves
2013-10-07	EcoWatch / Centre For Health, Environment & Justice	In Wake of Colorado Flooding, U.S. Reps Call for Hearing on Oil and Gas Spills
2013-10-04	Guardian	Fracking produces annual toxic waste water enough to flood Washington DC	Suzanne Goldenberg
2013-10-04	EcoWatch / US Energy Information Administration	U.S. Expected to be World’s Largest Producer of Petroleum and Natural Gas This Year
2013-10-03	CTV News	Critics say suit against Quebec fracking ban show perils of free trade deals	The Canadian Press
2013-10-03	EcoWatch / Environment America	Groundbreaking Report Calculates Damage Done by Fracking	(report .pdf)
2013-10-01	Submedia.tv	Video: Kahsatstenhsera: Indigenous Resistance to Tar Sands Pipelines (10mins)	Line 9 and Energy East
2013-09-28	CBC	Alberta orders lake drained to contain bitumen leak
2013-09-26	EcoWatch / Oil Change Int’l	As Scientists Warn About Climate Change, Russia Eyes Vast Frack Reserves	Andy Rowell - Russia
2013-09-24	Food & Water Watch	The Social Costs of Fracking
2013-09-24	Brantford Expositor	Exercise simulates pipeline spill	Michael-Allan Marion - Brant County
2013-09-21	EcoWatch (USA)	Colorado Flooding Triggers More Oil and Gas Spills	Cliff Willmeng - Colorado flooding
2013-09-19	Globe and Mail	Canada’s first new refinery in decades breaks ground	Kelly Cryderman
2013-09-18	Denver Post (USA)	5,250 gallons of oil spills into Platte	- Colorado flooding
2013-09-18	Reuters (USA)	In flood-struck Colorado, concerns about fracking spills	- Colorado flooding
2013-09-17	CBS News (USA)	Colorado floods spur fracking concerns	Alexander Trowbridge - Colorado flooding - N.B. impact of ‘once in a 1,000 year flood’ on 20,000 oil wells
2013-09-17	CBC News New Brunswick	7,500 songbirds killed at Canport gas plant in Saint John
2013-09-17	CTV News	55,000-pound, 38-metre-long bridge hits the road from Barrie	Mike Walker - bridge heading to Alberta’s oil sands
2013-09-16	EcoWatch / Phil Radford	Industry funded fracking study fatally flawed	Phil Radford - Centre for Energy and Environmental Resources
2013-09-16	Associated Press	Study:  Methane leaks from gas drilling not huge	Seth Borenstein, Kevin Begos - Centre for Energy and Environmental Resources
2013-09-16	EcoWatch / GreenCityBlueLake Institute (USA)	How the Fracking Boom Impacts Rural Ohio	David Beach
2013-09-15	Marcellus Effect blog	Colorado Floods Break Pipeline and Engulf Gas Wells	- Colorado flooding
2013-09-15	Commonsense Canadian	Colorado flood raises fears of fracking chemical spill – new photos	Damien Gillis - Colorado flooding
2013-09-11	Observer	Fuel leaked from Sarnia pipeline	Paul Morden - caused Wallaceburg and Walpole Island to close drinking water intakes
2013-09-11	Globe and Mail	Crude that exploded in Lac-Megantic was mislabeled: officials	Jacquie McNish, Grant Robertson and Kim Mackrael
2013-09-10	Toronto Atmospheric Fund	Does Toronto really need a pipeline?	Julia Langer
2013-09-10	Globe and Mail	Video:  Neil Young says Fort McMurray looks like ‘Hiroshima’ (1min)	Howell Posner
2013-09-08	EcoWatch / Oil Change International	Canadian Minister Heads to DC to Lobby for Keystone XL As Steyer Launches $1M “Bad Deal for America” Ads	Andy Rowell - video link
2013-09-06	EcoWatch	Industry Expert Anthony Ingraffea:  PA Has Only Seen the Tip of the Fracking Iceberg	Video “So it’s a certainty that water wells will be contaminated.”  Anthony Ingraffea
2013-09-06	Mail Online (UK)	The new gold rush that proves the anti-fracking fanatics have got it all wrong	Tom Leonard
2013-09-06	EcoWatch / Media Matters for America	What the Media Left Out:  Pro-Fracking Report Funded by Gas Industry	America’s New Energy Future: The Unconventional Oil & Gas Revolution and the U.S. Economy
2013-09-06	Financial Post	U.K. home owners support fracking near their multi-million-dollar properties	Eduard Gismatullin
2013-09-05	Huffington Post / Reuters	After North Sea Gas Leak, Drillers Fear Corrosive Fluid Could Threaten Deep Sea Wells Across the World	Stephen Eisenhammer, Oleg Vukmanovic and Muriel Boselli
2013-09-04	Green Party of Canada	Green Pary reveals over $100 million federal spending supporting Enbridge tanker plans	Green Party of Canada
2013-09-04	NBC News	Confirmed:  Fracking practices to blame for Ohio earthquakes	Charles Q. Chol
2013-09-04	TreeHugger	Where Keystone XL ends, cancer rates are 15% higher and mortality rate is 40% higher than average	Chris Tackett - flaring video
2013-09-03	PolicyMic (USA)	Exxon Made Us Sick:  Ann Jarrell is Outraged, And She’s Not Alone	Carly  Pildis Mayflower, Arkansas
2013-08-30	EcoWatch	Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Dumping Toxic Fracking Wastewater Into River	Laura Beans
2013-08-29	EcoWatch / Natural Resources Defense Council (USA)	Fracking wastewater spill kills rare fish in KY, puts entire species at risk	Amy Mall - stemming from 2007 spill
2013-08-27	EcoWatch / SkyTruth	SkyTruth Tracks Fracking From the Edge of Space
2013-08-26	Oil & Gas Financial Journal	CN railroad facilities to offload crude on the Gulf coast	Sandy Fielden, RBN Energy
2013-08-26	Desmog Canada	Official Price of the Enbridge Kalamazoo Spill, A Whopping $1,039,000,000	Carol Linnitt
2013-08-25	Globe and Mail	BC worries oil spill would “overwhelm” resources	Stanley Tromp - reference to Cdn oil-spill expert Kenneth Lee, Dartmouth
2013-08-22	In These Times	Tar Sands Drones Are On Their Way	Cole Stangler
2013-08-22	Guardian	Blog: Canada’s oil pipelines will not build a nation – they are a great swindle	Martin Lukacs
2013-08-21	Badger Bluff Sands	Effects of Industrial Sand Mining on Property Values in Western Wisconsin	Badger Bluff Sands LLC
2013-08-19	Vancouver Observer	Keystone XL:  TransCanada admits bitumen sinks, contradicting Enbridge’s claims	Jenny Uechi
2013-08-19	Maddow Blog MSNBC	A different kind of Stone Age	Steve Benen Texas reverting heavy traffic-damaged paved roads to gravel
2013-08-18	Bloomberg Businessweek	Shale Grab in U.S. Stalls as Falling Values Repel Buyers	Matthew Monks, Rebecca Penty and Gerrit de Vynck
2013-08-16	EcoWatch / ThinkProgress	Beyond Keystone XL: Three Controversial Pipeline Proposals	Kiley Kroh
2013-08-15	Youtube	Frack Worker Tells All – Part 1:  Medical Problems	Randy Moyer - recurring problems two years later
2013-08-13	CBC News (Montreal)	Pollution in Lac-Megantic at high levels, study says	Lac Megantic
2013-08-11	Theguardian	A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water	Suzanne Goldenberg, Barnhart, Texas Video
2013-08-18	Mail Online (UK)	50-year-old fracking site that makes a mockery of the Balcombe zealots: It's next to a nature reserve - and has fracked enough gas and oil to power 21,000 homes every day... with no complaints from locals	Adam Lusher and Wayne Francis - referring to vertical fracking
2013-08-16	LibertyPen	Video FrackNation: The Truth About Fracking (14 mins)	Excerpts from FrackNation movie (http://fracknation.com/)
2013-08-15	Vancouver Observer	Taxpayers on the hook for Lac Megantic damage:  expect the same for pipelines, says economist	Jenny Uechi
2013-08-15	Common Sense Canadian	Malaysian energy giant makes Skeena River disappear in LNG proposal	Damien Gillis - deliberate exclusion of major river on map - reference to Enbridge
2013-08-15	EcoWatch / Greenpeace	Four Lessons From the U.S. for Countries About to be Fracked	Jesse Coleman
2013-08-15	EcoWatch / ProPublica	How the Fracking Industry Avoids Paying Royalties to Landowners	Abrahm Lustgarten - governments having trouble collecting royalties due
2013-08-09	Marcellus Effect	NY Landowners Denied Homeowners Insurance because of Gas Well	- commercial operations occurring on property
2013-08-02	EcoWatch / DeSmog Canada	New TransCanada Pipeline Plan Dwarfs Keystone XL	Derek Leahy - 1.1 million barrels per day - Alberta to Quebec & New Brunswick - “Energy East” - 4,400 kms making use of 3,000 kms of existing natural gas pipe (55 yrs old)
2013-08-01	Irving Oil	Irving Oil and TransCanada Announce Joint Venture to Develop New Saint John Marine Terminal	Corporate news release
2013-07-30	RBN Energy LLC	Go Your Own Way – The Rail vs. Pipeline Bitumen Challenge	Sandy Fielden
2013-07-30	Holland Sentinel	EPA: Enbridge nearly tripling oil spill dredging	- Kalamazoo River - nearly 3 years after spill - rupture was caused by cracks and corrosion
2013-07-29	Toronto Star	Lac Megantic:  Quebec demands companies pay for cleanup	Jessica McDiarmid Lac Megantic
2013-07-26	DeSmogBlog	Louisiana Sues Big Oil for Loss of Coastal Wetlands	- precedent setting case
2013-07-25	MPN Now	Richmond (NY) bans fracking brine on all town roads and property	Julie Sherwood - used to control snow & ice - proactive to protect town & lake
2013-07-23	Ottawa Citizen	Study finds little environmental enforcement in oilsands infractions	Bob Weber Fewer than 1% of likely environmental infractions have drawn any enforcement
2013-07-23	EcoWatch / Friends of the Au Gres-Rifle Watershed	Fracking Company Ignores High Fire Risk as Gas Flares in Michigan State Forest
2013-07-23	ClimateWire (USA)	Natural Gas:  Landowner disputes with Chesapeake hit a boiling point in northern Pa (Pennsylvania)	Joel Kirkland, Energywire "There are potentially infinite variations of oil and gas leases".  The onus is on landowners to sue gas producers if they think they are breaching the terms of a lease.
2013-07-22	EcoWatch / Earthworks	How Fracking Decreases Property Value
2013-07-19	Telegraph (UK)	Water firms raise fears over shale gas fracking	Emily Gosden
2013-07-19	Hot Air	Landmark-study alert:  We still can’t actually find a link between fracking and groundwater contamination.  Shocker.	Erika Johnsen
2013-07-16	CBC News New Brunswick	TransCanada pipeline would run through Ottawa	News clip 2 mins
2013-07-15	EcoWatch / Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility	25 Years After Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Recovery Plan Still Needed
2013-07-12	EcoWatch	Increased Frequency of Earthquakes Linked to Fracking Wastewater Injection Wells	Laura Beans
2013-07-11	EcoWatch / New Mexico Coalition for Community Rights (USA)	EPA to Allow Consumption of Toxic Fracking Wastewater by Wildlife and Livestock	Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
2013-07-10	State Journal (USA)	Gas, oil industries develop nontoxic fracking fluids	Kevin Begos
2013-07-09	Toronto Star	Lac Megantic explosion has shaken town’s environment	Eric Andrew-Gee Lac Megantic – raining soot, boil water advisory,
2013-07-09	Wunderground.com (USA)	22-Acre Sinkhole Evacuates Entire Community	Littice Bacon-Blood Texas Brine Co. – salt brine used in the petrochemical process
2013-07-09	Edmonton Journal	Mysterious oily sheen spreads down Athabasca River, killing fish
2013-07-09	CBC News	Safety rules lag as oil transport by train rises	Lucas Powers
2013-07-08	Pennsylvania Observer-Reporter (USA)	Rejected radioactive waste remains in Greene	Tara Kinsell
2013-07-07	EcoWatch / AlterNet	Explosion Rocks Fracking Well in West Virginia	Tara Lohan Hinterer 2H well on the Ruddy Alt pad
2013-07-06	Wall Street Journal	Quebec Derailment, Blaze Come as Railroads Carry More Crude Across North America	Angel Gonzalez and Ben Lefebvre
2013-07-06	Globe and Mail	Massive Explosions Strike Quebec Town After Train Carrying Oil Derails	Canadian Press (Newsclip Video)
2013-07-06	EcoWatch / DeSmog Canada	Toxic Legacy of Waste Injection Wells	Elizabeth Hand
2013-07-05	EcoWatch / DeSmog Canada	Fracking Industry’s Faulty Claims Cast Doubt on Shale Investments	Sharon Kelly - are fracking cos. over-estimating reserves?
2013-07-04	Bloomberg	Alberta Makes C$5 Billion Commitment to Ship on TransCanada Pipe	Rebecca Penty to Atlantic coast
2013-07-03	Wisconsin Public Radio News (USA)	DNR: Frac Sand Companies Failed to Contain Runoff During Torrential Rains	Rich Kremer - Dept of Natural Resources (DNR) - Frac sand handling
2013-07-02	Toronto Star	Gas pipeline struggle heats up	John Spears
2013-07-02	EcoWatch / Oil Change International (UK)	Fracking the Streets of London	Andy Rowell British opinion piece
2013-07-02	Council of Canadians	Plan to bring fracked gas to GTA not worth risk to Great Lakes	Media Release
2013-07-01	Westcoast Native News	Unnatural Gas: How Government Made Fracking Profitable (and Left Renewables Behind)	USA
2013-07-01	Protecting Our Waters	RiverQuest program sells fracking to four year olds using chocolate chip cookies	Iris Marie Bloom
2013-06-28	Rabble	Yukon Council of First Nations declares territory to be frack free	George Lessard
2013-06-28	Youtube / 1156thor	Video:  Westwood Lake Nightmare (Trumbull County, Ohio) (11 mins)	Flaring 101 Well contains “wet gas”
2013-06-28	Motley Fool	Opinion:  What does the future hold for Canada’s oil sands?	Arjun Sreekumar
2013-06-27	Westcoast Native News	Pipeline firms need $1-billion at hand for cleanups:  Oliver	Brent Jang and Ian Bailey Enbridge said it has liability insurance and will be reimbursed for costs under coverage, subject to a $10-million deductible.
2013-06-26	Google News / Business Times (Moscow)	Gazprom abandons arctic gas project for now
2013-06-26	Coloradoan (USA)	Potentially explosive scrapped fracking pipes spur state, city warnings	Bobby Magill
2013-06-26	EcoJustice	And the spills just keep on coming	Kimberly Shearon
2013-06-26	EcoWatch / Real Clear Energy	Don’t Believe Thomas Pyle’s Hype that Misleads the Public on Fracking	Josh Fox, director of Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland
2013-06-25	Westcoast Native News	Enbridge preparing to begin dredging the Kalamazoo River	Derrick Cleanup from spill on July 25, 2010
2013-06-25	M Live (USA)	Canadian firm plans fracking campaign that could require 4 billion gallons of Michigan water	Jeff Alexander Encana Corp.
2013-06-24	Ottawa Citizen	TransCanada plans pipeline through Ottawa	Vito Pilieci
2013-06-24	EcoWatch / Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University	Duke study finds higher gas levels in drinking water wells near marcellus fracking sites
2013-06-23	Fort McMurray Today	Ruptured Enbridge pipeline contaminates stream, forcing shutdown	Vincent McDermott
2013-06-21	Financial Times	Railroad predicts the future of US shale oil	John Dizard New, economic, shale oilfields are hard to find.
2013-06-20	Common Sense Canadian	Water Contamination from Fracking:  Jessica Ernst Releases Groundbreaking Report	Damien Gillis Link to report (.pdf)
2013-06-19	Southwestern Ontario	Letter to the Editor:  Fracking poses risks to drinking water	Allan Slater
2013-06-19	Fuelfix.com	Keystone seen failing to sop up Canada oil glut
2013-06-19	Forbes	Energy Reality Check:  Keystone Crude Won’t Be Exported	Loren Steffy
2013-06-18	Daily News (USA)	Gas pipeline explosion rocks Enon	Marcelle Hanemann No comment from Florida Gas
2013-06-18	EcoWatch / BC Tap Water Alliance	Game-changing fracking wastewater report leaves little wiggle room for industry deceptions
2013-06-16	Climate Central	Catastrophic Oil Spill Threat to Canadian River Basin	Paul Brown
2013-06-15	Journal of Commerce	Industrial headquarters opens in Nisku, Alta	Richard Gilbert - anticipating oil sands expansion - PCL manufacturers components for the oil & gas industry
2013-06-14	Vancouver Sun	Small crude spill on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline generates big reaction	Jeff Lee Merritt, B.C.
2013-06-14	Rock Products	Canadian Company Accelerating $33 million Railroad Upgrade	Canadian National in Wisconsin USA -frac sand industry
2013-06-13	Yahoo News	Alberta toxic waste spill could be biggest North American environmental disaster in recent history	Scott Sutherland -pulls from G&M article
2013-06-13	Guardian (UK)	Canada’s tar sands companies fail to clean up toxic waste, report finds	Suzanne Goldenberg
2013-06-13	Forbes	Why America's Shale Oil Boom Could End Sooner Than You Think	Christopher Helman
2013-06-13	Desmog Canada	Apache’s 9.5 Million Litre Spill covers 42 Hectares of “Internationally Important” Wetlands	Erika Thorkelson
2013-06-12	Globe & Mail	Toxic waste spill in northern Alberta biggest of recent disasters in North America	Nathan Vanderklippe
2013-06-12	EcoWatch / Friends of the Au Gres-Rifle Watershed	Residential Water Well Fails in Michigan After Fracking Begins Nearby	-losing water pressure and water coming out of the tap looks like milk - list of oil wells with inadequate water supply
2013-06-12	Tyee	Apache spill is one of Alberta’s largest pipeline ruptures	Andrew Nikiforuk 9.5 million litres of contaminated water near Zama City, Alberta
2013-06-11	Daily Mail (UK)	UK’s shale gas could fuel the country for up to a DECADE, US report claims	Martin Robinson Off to a dismal start; triggered two earthquakes
2013-06-10	EcoWatch / Centre for Health, Environment & Justice	Oil and Gas Industry Targets Tennessee After State Passes Fracking Rules (USA)	Andrew Morris if gas prices resume an increase in the near future we can expect to see more and more companies expanding into previously ignored areas of the country
2013-06-10	Westcoast Native News	Lubicon Lake Nation Files Aggressive 700 Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Canada
2013-06-10	Westcoast Native News / The National	Oil Extraction Operation Making Families Flee:  Alberta	Peace River, Alberta
2013-06-09	State Impact	Injection Well Earthquakes Worth Worrying About, Stanford Geophysicist Says	Joe Wertz Oklahoma
2013-06-09	New York Times	Supporting Oil and Gas but Resisting Encroachment	Jack Healy
2013-06-09	Global New Brunswick	Cleanup efforts udnerway after northwestern Alberta pipeline spill	Zama City
2013-06-09	Halifax Media Co-op	Anti-fracking arrests continue on highway 126 (New Brunswick)	Miles Howe
2013-06-07	Grist	How fracking companies exploit Amish farmers	Claire Thompson
2013-06-07	EcoWatch / YES! Magazine	Sandra Steingraber’s Manifesto: Illinois Fracking Rules a Betrayal of Democracy and Science	Jeff Biggers
2013-06-07	EcoWatch / Centre for Health, Environment & Justice	Fracking Industry Asks NY Court to Throw Out Gas Drilling Bans	Jon Campbell
2013-06-06	Halifax Media Co-op	Shale Gas opponents arrested, determined to stop SWN's exploration in New Brunswick	Tracy Glynn
2013-06-06	Chronicle Herald	Nova Scotia Power burning high-sulfur petcoke from Detroit	Ian Austen, NY Times
2013-06-05	Columbus Dispatch (USA)	Hauler illlegally dumped fracking waste, state says	Spencer Hunt
2013-06-05	Global News New Brunswick	Cleanup complete, one year after Gleniffer Lake oil spill	Mia Sosiak Tamara Elliott
2013-06-04	EcoWatch / SkyTruth	Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Still Spilling After Nearly a Decade	Taylor Energy Company consistently under-reporting slick
2013-06-04	Daily Mail UK	Britain's new Eldorado: Forget North Sea oil, new map shows massive gas deposits under UK that could keep us self sufficient for years	Lewis Smith
2013-06-03	Daily Mail UK	Controversial fracking technique could make the UK self-sufficient in gas for at least 15 years	Lewis Smith
2013-06-03	Inside Climate News	Map: Another Major Tar Sands Pipeline Seeking U.S. Permit	Lisa Song Enbridge looking to expand in USA, greater capacity than Keystone XL
2013-06-03	EcoWatch	Fracked Gas Pipelines Planned for Ohio and Kentucky	Andrew Morris Proposed Bluegrass Pipeline
2013-06-01	Canadian Geographic	13+ things you didn’t know about energy	Michela Rosano
2013-06-01	Policymic	Mayflower Oil Spill: Exxon Doesn't Want You to Know People Are Getting Very, Very Sick	Carly Pildis
2013-05-30	EcoWatch	Top 5 Reasons Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Exports Are a Very Bad Idea	Michael Brune
2013-05-29	OpEdNews	The Future’s So Fracked, We’ve Got to Wear Masks	J. Dial
2013-05-28	O.Canada.com	Harper government eliminated reviews for oilsands projects following warnings of water disruption	Mike De Souza Includes satellite imagery of oilsands growth since 1984
2013-05-28	Vancouver Sun	Advances make newly constructed lines safer	Scott Simpson - 38,000 kms of Cdn highways vs 825,000 kms of energy pipelines - Improvements in techniques for surveillance of older lines — which can be at higher risk of failure — have also been developed
2013-05-28	Forbes (USA)	Escalating Water Strains In Fracking Regions	Mindy Lubber
2013-05-28	Los Angeles Times (USA)	New Mexico county first in nation to ban fracking to safeguard water	Julie Cart
2013-05-28	DeSmog Canada	The Most Important Tar Sands Case You’ve Never Heard Of	Beaver Lake Cree Nation (BLCN)
2013-05-26	Daily Mail UK	Revealed: The EU’s great green U-turn on policy …	David Rose To frack or not to frack?  Competing with America’s cheap energy
2013-05-25	EcoWatch	Quiet Climate Milestones	Maggie L. Fox atmospheric carbon levels had reached a new record concentration of 400 parts per million (ppm)
2013-05-25	Columbus Dispatch (USA)	State forces fracking on some owners	Spencer Hunt Ohio
2013-05-24	Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE)  / EcoWatch	Interactive Website Tracks Legislation State by State, From Fracking to Renewable Energy	USA Advanced Energy Legislation Tracker (AEL)
2013-05-21	Greenpeace Cda	Blog:  Is the oil industry using unsafe rail cars to transport crude?	Keith Stewart
2013-05-22	Youtube	Video:  The North Dakota Oil Boom (Documentary)	carchdeacon North Dakota Oil Boom
2013-05-22	Bloomberg	Oil Pipelines to Drive Canada Economy Like 1880s Railroad	Jeremy van Loon & Rebecca Penty “When you really get down to it, Canada is an export-driven resource economy. This is our foundation.”  Al Monaco, Chief Executive Officer, Enbridge Inc.
2013-05-22	Global News	Crude Awakening - Introduction: 37 years of oil spills in Alberta	Leslie Young Alberta’s had an average of two crude oil spills a day, every day for the past 37 years.
2013-05-22	Global News	Crude Awakening - 1. Oil in your backyard	Leslie Young “Most times, the companies do their best to compensate you.”
2013-05-22	Global News	Crude Awakening - 2. Who's watching?	Leslie Young & Anna Mehler Paperny “Certainly, we don’t have people to go to every site and every activity on the ground. No regulator in the world can do that, so what we run is a risk-based approach.”
2013-05-22	Global News	Crude Awakening - 3. Anatomy of a spill	Leslie Young & Anna Mehler Paperny “You’re never going to be able to come up with a set procedure. … If someone were able to cookie-cutter a spill, it would already have been done.”
2013-05-22	Global News	Crude Awakening - 4. Rail Alternative	Anna Mehler Paperny In 2012, 33,000 carloads of oil, with about 600 barrels per car. Expected to double in 2013.
2013-05-22	Global News	Crude Awakening - 5. Extracting info: Why's it so hard to get the goods on oil spills?	Leslie Young Data “is characterized by long delays, numerous missing and incomplete records, and erroneous records. … There is little or no accountability.”
2013-05-22	Global News	Crude Awakening - Reporter's notebook: How we covered this story	Leslie Young Result of an 11-month investigation
2013-05-21	Globe and Mail	Joe Oliver:  The end of fossil fuels would be an economic and social catastrophe	Federal Minister of Natural Resources (response to letter)
2013-05-20	EcoWatch	The Koch Brothers’ Toxic Mountain of Petroleum Coke	Bold Nebraska petcoke
2013-05-17	New York Times	A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste is Rising Over Detroit	Ian Austen Petroleum coke aka petcoke
2013-05-17	CBC News	Fracking water banned from Debert sewers	Nova Scotia
2013-05-17	CBC News	Video: Fracking risks Gros Morne’s UNESCO status	newscast
2013-05-17	Guardian	Artist finds inspiration in Canadian government’s attempt to silence her	Suzanne Goldberg Franke James’ views on climate change clash with tar sands development
2013-05-17	Journal Star	Local View: Pipeline criticism puzzling	Andrew Craig, Land Manager for Keystone Pipelines
2013-05-16	Greenpeace Canada	Don’t get railroaded into accepting tar sands as inevitable	Keith Stewart
2013-05-15	NBC News Science	Energy future may be swamped in fracking wastewater, scientists warn	John Roach
2013-05-15	TarSandsSolutions	Video:  Reality Check: Canada’s Oil Sands
2013-05-12	Post-Journal	Hydraulic Fracturing is a Dead-end Path	Glenn Whal
2013-05-09	Globe and Mail	Climate scientists’ letter to resources minister: “We are at a critical moment”	Open letter to Joe Oliver, federal Minister of Natural Resources
2013-05-08	Inside Climate News (USA)	Arkansas Residents Sick From Exxon Oil Spill Are on Their Own	Lisa Song Mayflower, Arkansas
2013-05-04	60 Minutes / Espectas	Shale Gas Drilling:  Pros & Cons (Video 13 mins)
2013-04-30	Planetsave.com	Fracking Waste:  Too Toxic, Even For A Hazardous Waste Site	Don Lieber Rice Energy, radium-226,
2013-04-29	Wall Street Journal	Boom Times for a Tiny Texas Town	Russell Gold
2013-04-25	Financial Post	Alberta exploring at least two oil pipeline projects to North	Yadullah Hussain
2013-04-25	Green Party of Canada	Opinion: Pipelines to the east?	Elizabeth May Build refineries closer to source; ship refined product by pipeline
2013-04-13	Poor Man’s Media	Pegasus pipeline rupture in Mayflower, Arkansas	Alexander Knight Exxon not forthcoming, controlling all aspects of cleanup
2013-04-09	CBC Hamilton	New rules for pipeline input shut out Hamiltonians:  McHattie	Samantha Craggs
2013-04-05	RT.com	Third major oil spill in a week: Shell pipeline breaks in Texas
2013-04-03	Alexander Knight	Video:  Oil: Enbridge Line 9 exposed in the Rouge River, Markham (4mins)
2013-04-03	Ottawa Citizen	Scientist links crude oil to fish deformities, closed federal research facility	Bruce Cheadle Industry is releasing heavy metals and hydrocarbons at toxic levels equivalent to a major oil spill every year
2013-04-03	CTV News	Deformed fish in Alberta:  Scientist thinks he knows why
2013-04-03	CBC News	CP discovers more oil spilled in White River derailment
2013-04-03	EcoWatch	Opinion: Why Keystone XL Matters	Wendy Abrams
2013-04-01	Wall Street Journal	Blog:  Canada’s “Rail Pipeline” Now Accounts for More Than 5% of Rail Cargo	Chip Cummins
2013-03-31	Youtube	Video:  Williston ND Oil boom LIES! The boom is over with! April 2013 (12 mins)	Jon5824 North Dakota Oil Boom
2013-03-31	EcoWatch	Exxon Mobil Pipeline Rupture and Train Derailment Oil Spill Exemplify Concerns of Keystone XL	Pegasus pipeline leak (29-Mar-2013) - Mayflower, Arkansas CP Train derailment (27-Mar-2013) - Minnesota
2013-03-28	Globe and Mail	Suncor spill site in Athabasca River also had incident in 2011	Kelly Cryderman
2013-03-28	Twin Cities	Railroad lowers estimate of oil spill in western Minnesota derailment	Associated Press
2013-03-27	St. Catharines Standard	Ontario needs more gas options:  Enbridge prez	Jeff Bolichowski
2013-03-19	The Atlantic	America’s Most Obvious Tax Reform Idea:  Kill the Oil and Gas Subsidies	Jordan Weissmann
2013-03-13	Youtube – Airboyd.tv	Pipelines under the Ocean (PLUTO)	World War II The importance of oil
2013-03-13	Daily Mail UK	Japan becomes the first country to unravel the mystery of “fire ice”, unlocking the world’s “next major energy resource”	Damien Gayle
2013-03-12	BBC News	Japan extracts gas from methane hydrate in world first
2013-03-12	Daily Mail UK	Transport Minister urges oil giants to delay introduction of “green” petrol amid fears 8.6 million cars could be incompatible with the new fuel	Sean Poulter fuel with 10% ethanol may cause problems
2013-03-09	Motley Fool	Buffett Wins Big From Railroad Crude Shipments	Arjun Sreekumar
2013-03-07	News Observer (USA)	NC fracking panel suggests wastewater could be used for irrigation	John Murawski North Carolina
2013-03-07	DeSmog/ EcoWatch	Blog:  EPA Accused of Violating Clean Water Act Through Approval of Corexit in BP Gulf Oil Cleanup	Farron Cousins Oil dispersant Corexit makes oil spills less visible but when combined with oil, creates a mixture 52 times more toxic
2013-03-05	Youtube	Video: Peak Oil and Econcomic Contraction HD	Nathan Parkin
2013-03-05	Be the Change USA	A Must Read Account of Fracking Colorado	Phillip Doe
2013-03-05	Common Dreams	Enbridge refuses to pay for ongoing damage study of Michigan tar sands disaster	Jacob Chamberlain Kalamazoo River
2013-03-03	National Farmers Union	Opinion Letter:  Hey CSIS – here’s my number.  Farmers are not Terrorists	Paul Slomp
2013-02-27	Gazette	McGill reviews petition to stop investments linked to oil sands	Monique Beaudin
2013-02-27	Globe and Mail	Review of oil well for Gulf of St. Lawrence terminated	Gloria Calloway
2013-02-25	Tyler County 12 News Now	550 barrels of crude oil leak into Tyler County creeks
2013-02-22	Guardian Weekly	Canada’s spy chiefs target anti-frackers	Stephen Leahy (subscription service)
2013-02-22	Globe and Mail	Alberta has a new export:  the petroleum trap	Trevor W. Harrison Staples theory
2013-02-21	CBS DFW	Crude Oil Railroad Shipments Triple in 2012	North Dakota
2013-02-20	Inter Press Service	In Conservatives’ Canada, It’s Note Easy Being Green	Stephen Leahy
2013-02-20	EcoWatch	Fort Collins Bans Fracking … Colorado	Gary Wockner
2013-02-20	Globe and Mail	The perils of Canada’s “bitumen cliff”	Shawn McCarthy as the world moves to less polluting fuels
2013-02-19	CBC News	Families abandon homes near Alberta bitumen facility	blaming emissions from a nearby heavy oil production site
2013-02-19	EcoWatch	Ohioans Shut Down Fracking Wastewater Storage Facility	high levels of benzene, toluene, arsenic, barium and radium, among other carcinogenic and radioactive chemicals
2013-02-19	Globe and Mail	Washington is right: Canada must confront its climate neglect	Tzerporah Berman
2013-02-18	Vancouver Sun	B.C. Oil and Gas Commission lacks transparency on fracking violations	Gordon Hoekstra 5,000 inspections, nearly 700 instances of “non-compliance” including six instances of “serious” or “high” level issues were found
2013-02-17	OCanada.com	Oilsands tailings leaking into groundwater, Joe Oliver told in memo	Mike De Souza Joe Oliver, federal Minister of Natural Resources
2013-02-13	Bloomberg News	Fracking threatens OPEC as US oil output hits 20-year high
2013-02-13	Washington Times	I drank fracking fluid, says Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper	Ben Wolfgang
2013-02-10	Thinkprogress.org	In Australia, Wind Power is already cheaper than fossil fuels, and solar is right behind	Jeff Spross
2013-02-08	EcoWatch	Confirmed: Tar Sands Toxic Liquid Waste Contaminating Local Waterways	Environmental Defense
2013-02-06	Daily KOS	Pennsylvania wants to use fracking waste as road salt	DWG - legal in Ohio
2013-02-06	Reuters	Exclusive: Obama considering MIT physicist Moniz for energy secretary - sources	Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason Food & Water Watch petition
2013-02-05	Globe and Mail	Energy giants battle over costs of oil sands pipeline	Nathan Vanderklippe
2013-02-02	CBC News	Ottawa gives nod to west-to-east oil pipeline	The Canadian Press
2013-02-01	Spiegel Online	Full Throttle Ahead: US Tips Global Power Scales with Fracking
2013-01-31	Associated Press	PEMEX: 14 dead, 80 injured in office building explosion at Mexican oil company headquarters	Michael Weissenstein
2013-01-30	Toronto Star	Ontario will review fracking rules	John Spears
2013-01-28	News24	Canada aims to prove “clean coal” works	CCS Captured carbon dioxide to be sold to oil company to inject into oil wells to force oil to the surface
2013-01-28	MailOnline	What a waste! Picture from space reveals how U.S. oil field is burning off gas	Simon Tomlinson “flare off” unwanted gas
2013-01-27	ClarionLedger.com	Barge with 80,000 gallons oil hits Vicksburg railroad bridge, leaks	Light crude oil, Mississippi River
2013-01-24	Telegraph	Trillions of dollars worth of oil found in Australian outback	Jonathan Perlman fracking
2013-01-21	Alternatives Journal	Blocking the Arteries of the Tar Sands	Paisley Cozzarin
2013-01-17	Oil Change International	Petroleum Coke:  The Coal Hiding in the Tar Sands	petcoke
2013-01-07	CBC News Canada	Alberta lakes show chemical effects of oilsands, study finds	Margo McDiarmid
2013-01-01	Alaska Dispatch	Shell-shocked: Is grounded drilling ship in Alaska leaking fuel?	Tony Hopfinger, Suzanna Caldwell

“While the Natural Resources Department estimates the oilsands industry represents two per cent of the Canadian economy, the companies face intensive scrutiny over their environmental footprint since extraction requires massive amounts of energy and water that have made it Canada’s fastest growing source of the heat-trapping pollution that warms the atmosphere and contributes to climate change.” OCanada.com (article)

“I think a lot of the local townspeople were almost in a state of shock.  Williston is still called “Williston” but it’s not our home town any more.”

Debbie Hayden, born and raised in Williston, North Dakota (video @8:49)

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