Oil & Gas News
Pipelines
These days pipeline projects face a lot of opposition, and not without reason:
- No big picture view - environmental and construction damage from multiple competing carriers all going the same direction
- “Poor construction and oversight” (Revolution pipeline, which ruptured in Sept. 2018)
- Health issues from fossil fuels
- Climate change concerns fueled by fossil fuels
- Annoyance with abandoned operations
- Risk with transporting bitumen, especially across water and offshore
- Fracking issues (earthquakes, spills, water use, sand extraction,
- Excessive financial subsidies for a well-established industry
- Persistent waste from fossil fuel processing operations (petcoke, tailings ponds)
Specific Pipelines
Enbridge
Link to Enbridge’s Pipeline Overview including Alberta Clipper/Line 67, Line 3, Line 5 (Straits of Mackinac), Line 9, Northern Gateway.
Kinder-Morgan’s TransMountain Expansion
Kinder Morgan is looking to expand its Canadian operations by investing $5.4 billion to twin the existing pipeline where possible, within the existing right of way between Strathcona County, Alberta to to Burnaby, British Columbia. They plan to add new pump stations along the route, increase the number of storage tanks at existing facilities and increase the capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels per day. In addition, they plan to expand the Westridge Marine Terminal. (website) (www.transmountain.com) (How close are you to the Kinder Morgan pipeline?)
Learn more about Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain Expansion proposal
TC Energy / TransCanada’s Energy East
*** UPDATE: TransCanada cancelled plans for the Energy East pipeline in October 2017 due to low markets and increasing obstacles to approval. ***
TransCanada Corp. is actively promoting plans for the Energy East pipeline that would carry up to 1.1 million barrels of oil per day, including oil sands crude, from Alberta to eastern markets. TransCanada would convert its 40-year-old natural gas pipeline (between Saskatchewan and Quebec), connecting it with new pipeline in the west to Empress, Alberta, and in the east to Quebec City and Saint John, New Brunswick. Opponents fear that the 4,400-kilometre pipeline would lead to massive tanker exports from Quebec and the Atlantic coast feeding the much larger and more profitable U.S., India, China and European markets.
The Council of Canadians – Energy East 101 (direct youtube link)
Learn more about the Energy East proposal
TC Energy / TransCanada’s Keystone XL
TransCanada (website) proposed the Keystone XL pipeline to carry Alberta oil sands crude over 1,897km (1,179 miles) to the U.S. Gulf coast. American and Canadian producers and U.S. refiners have committed to using the proposed pipeline for 17-18 years. The Canadian governments are on board. Land expropriation (eminent domain) in the U.S.A. is underway and pipeline is being laid in the south states. There is a strong anti-Keystone XL lobby due to environmental and social costs. The outcome of this fight is considered a key strategic indicator as to the future of shale oil in the U.S.A.
Learn more about the Keystone XL proposal
Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc.
Trans-Northern’s pipeline infrastructure is jointly owned by three of the planet’s largest oil companies – Imperial Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, and Suncor. (article)
United States
General Pipeline News
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Date yyyy-mm-dd |
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Article Link |
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2020-03-30 |
EcoWatch / Olivia Rosane |
Olivia Rosane
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2019-11-05 |
National Post |
Two proposed LNG projects will serve as a testing ground for Trudeau’s controversial Bill C-69 |
Jesse Snyder - Gazoduq - Cedar LNG |
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2019-10-22 |
The Guardian (Aus) |
Australian plans to import gas are expensive, bad for the climate and utterly absurd |
Samantha Hepburn - Selling to the world market |
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2019-04-30 |
Yahoo Finance (USA) |
Landowners Allege Alliance Pipeline Must Compensate for Crop Yield Losses |
- company breaches easements, Attorney General Agreements and promises made |
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2019-04-14 |
TheSpec.com |
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2019-01-04 |
National Observer |
Pipeline shortfall not the only thing punishing Canadian oilpatch |
Carl Meyer |
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2018-08-02 |
EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow |
Lorraine Chow - operator unknown |
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2018-06-14 |
National Observer |
Pipeline incidents in Canada spiked by almost half last year, report finds |
Carl Meyer |
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2017-09-06 |
CBC News Calgary |
Balls of bitumen: Calgary breakthrough could bypass pipeline problem, researcher says |
John Gibson |
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2017-07-07 |
Philly.com |
Water-contamination complaints force Sunoco to suspend Chesco pipeline construction |
Andrew Maykuth - Mariner East 2 underground pipeline - horizontal drilling down 190 feet |
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2017-03-06 |
EcoWatch / Sierra Club (USA) |
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2017-02-28 |
Detroit Free Press (USA) |
Jennifer Eberbach |
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2016-12-29 |
EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow |
Lorraine Chow |
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2016-11-21 |
CBC News |
ANALYSIS The case for more oil pipelines in Canada — as some analysts see it |
Kyle Bakx |
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2016-11-11 |
Environmental Defence |
Blog: NEB “Modernization” Panel is Stacked with Pipeline Industry Insiders |
Patrick DeRochie |
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2016-10-24 |
National Observer |
Two members of regulator say a major Canadian pipeline isn't safe and want a temporary shut down |
Mike De Souza |
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2016-10-11 |
CBC |
'Dangerous' move by climate-change activists cuts off pipeline flow from Canada to U.S. |
Thomson Reuters |
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2016-09-29 |
MacLean’s |
Why Trudeau and the oil industry are losing the pipeline battle |
Jason Markusoff, Martin Patriquin - Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion
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2016-09-23 |
WSAU (USA) |
Jim Monk |
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2016-08-28 |
Desmog |
Texas Ranch Owner Battles TransCanada to Restore Her Pipeline-Scarred Land |
Julie Dermansky
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2016-08-23 |
DesMoinesRegister.com |
Kevin Hardy - soil impact |
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2016-02-25 |
HuffingtonPost.ca |
Elizabeth May |
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2016-02-04 |
Vancouver Sun |
B.C. union joins First Nations vowing to use law to fight pipelines like Northern Gateway |
Laura Kane |
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2015-10-27 |
EcoWatch / Oil Change International |
Jane Kleeb: ‘We the People Have Changed the Tar Sands Pipeline Game Forever’ |
Jane Kleeb |
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2015-10-15 |
Bayshore Broadcasting |
First of three information sessions on natural gas project is in Chesley tonight. |
Southern Bruce County is the biggest area in Southern Ontario that does not have natural gas service. |
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2015-10-03 |
EIN Presswire |
Highbank Closes First Tranche of Private Placement and Pacific Northwest News |
Greg Shafransky Highbank Resources Ltd. - aggregate company |
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2015-09-30 |
Financial Post |
Eagle Spirit Energy’s pipeline plan in northern B.C. gets backing of First Nations chiefs |
Geoffrey Morgan - Aquilini Group - Fort McMurray, AL to Prince Rupert, BC
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2015-08-29 |
Globe and Mail |
Alberta regulator shuts 95 Nexen pipelines over ‘noncompliance’ |
Mike De Souza |
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2015-08-10 |
MarketWatch |
Press release |
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2015-06-03 |
Arkansas Times (USA) |
Arkansas River pipeline blowout occurred on Sunday morning, cause still unknown |
Benjamin Hardy |
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2015-04-01 |
National Energy Board |
Board Hearing Process Provides Opportunity for Meaningful Participation |
- Trans Mountain Expansion Project |
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2015-03-23 |
EcoWatch / Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams |
Fossil Fuel Industry Is Quietly Building Pipeline Network That ‘Dwarfs Keystone’ XL |
Deirdre Fulton |
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2015-03-01 |
EcoWatch / Ted Glick |
Constitution Pipeline: ‘The Keystone Pipeline of Natural Gas’ |
Ted Glick |
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2015-02-25 |
Toronto Star |
Tim Gray |
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2014-12-11 |
CBC News |
Up to pipeline firms, not Ottawa, to make Gateway, Trans Mountain work, industry minister says |
Chris Hall - Industry Minister James Moore |
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2014-12-10 |
Lexology.com |
Prove it up: Texas Railroad Commission revises rule for pipeline common carrier permits |
Tyler S. Johnson & Kirstin E. Gibbs, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (USA) |
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2014-12-08 |
CNW |
- Greg Rickford, Minister of Natural Resources |
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2014-12-02 |
Globe and Mail |
Michael Bird |
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2014-07-05 |
Toronto Star |
TransCanada donation to Ontario town comes with ‘no comment’ condition |
John Spears - Mattawa |
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2014-06-18 |
Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) |
Brenda Kenny, CEPA President & CEO |
“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. (article)
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