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Oil & Gas News Archive (2013)

 

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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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