Oil - Pipelines

An Explosion in Texas Shows the Hidden Dangers of Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels

13/06/21
Author: 
Sabrina Shankman, Julia Kane
Link: 
Inside Climate News
A tank used to emulsify asphalt caught fire and exploded early Tuesday, June 30, 2020 in a Camden County, New Jersey neighborhood, officials said. Police began receiving 911 calls about 12:49 a.m. from people living near the Blueknight Energy Partners in the 200 block of Water Street in Gloucester City, according to the county’s Office of Emergency Management. Credit: Pennsauken Fire Department

Industry experts believe that changes in the makeup of asphalt and No. 6 fuel oil products stored in heated tanks across the country could pose a risk to workers and nearby communities.

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250 water protectors arrested in protest against Canadian-owned pipeline being built on Indigenous territories in Minnesota

12/06/21
Author: 
Brent Patterson
Link: 
Peace Brigades International - Canada
Protesting Line 3 in Minnesota - Photo by Nicholas Pfosi/Reuters.

June 11, 2021

Nearly 250 people were arrested in Minnesota on Monday June 7 protesting against a Canadian-owned tar sands pipeline being built on Indigenous lands.

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'Keystone XL Is Dead!': After 10-Year Battle, Climate Movement Victory Is Complete

10/06/21
Author: 
Jon Queally
Link: 
Common Dreams
Keystone pipeline is dead.
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Pembina Pipeline joins Indigenous effort to buy Trans Mountain

09/06/21
Author: 
Wendy Stueck and Jeffrey Jones
Link: 
The Globe and Mail
Pembina Pipeline has joined with the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group to bid on the Trans Mountain oil pipeline. HO/THE CANADIAN PRESS

JUNE 8, 2021

Pembina Pipeline Corp. 

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Indigenous, environmental activists square off with Enbridge to stop Line 3

09/06/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Founder of the Giniw Collective Tara Houska speaks to a crowd at the Stop Line 3 protests. Photo courtesy of Giniw Collective

June 8th 2021

Protesters descended on northern Minnesota over the weekend in an attempt to stop construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, which critics say would deal a devastating blow to the water table and lock in unneeded fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Police Make Mass Arrests at Protest Against Oil Pipeline

08/06/21
Author: 
Hiroko Tabuchi, Matt Furber and Coral Davenport Hiroko Tabuchi reported from New York City, Matt Furber from the protests in Minnesota and Coral Davenport from Washington.
Link: 
New York Times
Demonstrators near Park Rapids, Minn., on Monday.Credit...Tim Gruber for The New York Times

Updated June 8, 2021

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Trudeau promised a transition strategy for oil-and-gas workers, now it’s rarely mentioned

07/06/21
Author: 
Adam Radwanski
Link: 
The Globe and Mail
Roughnecks operate a drilling rig for Crescent Point Energy near Oungre, Saskatchewan on June 20, 2012. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to create a strategy to retrain oil-and-gas workers in the 2019; however, since the election, the issue is rarely mentioned, despite projections that up to 450,000 jobs in the sector could be lost. STAFF/REUTERS

Jun 7, 2021.

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Natural Resources sees itself as oil industry’s “champion in government,” documents reveal

05/06/21
Author: 
Martin Lukacs
Link: 
The Breach
Natural Resources Canada is located in the Sir William Logan Building in Ottawa, Canada.

June 4 2021

Experts warn Minister O’Regan’s “boost” to industry may be skewing Canada’s approach to climate crisis

Canada’s Department of Natural Resources is acting as a “champion” for the oil and gas industry, intervening in the work of other federal departments to advocate for less regulation of the beleaguered sector, according to documents seen by The Breach.

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Does Canada need another pipeline, feds ask days after Biden cancels Keystone XL

04/06/21
Author: 
Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press
Link: 
Lethbridge News Now
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Jun 4, 2021 | 2:08 AM

OTTAWA — Federal officials were asking themselves how many pipelines does Canada really need in the days after U.S. President Joe Biden cancelled Keystone XL.

The query was posed in a briefing note from Natural Resources Canada and released to The Canadian Press under federal access-to-information legislation.

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Energy regulator orders Trans Mountain to stop tree clearing work on project

04/06/21
Author: 
Canadian Press
Link: 
Burnaby Now
TMX pipeline work

June. 3, 2021

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — An order stopping tree cutting and grass mowing across the entire Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project was issued Thursday by the Canada Energy Regulator, the agency that enforces safety and environmental guidelines for pipeline projects across Canada.

A statement released by the CER said it issued the order to immediately stop all clearing activity "to prevent harm to nesting birds in the pipeline project’s right of way and to ensure Trans Mountain is correcting any issues it has in relation to contractor oversight and management." 

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