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Nov 11
2011
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U.S. postpones Keystone XL pipeline decisionPosted by: Maggie in Fossil Fuels |
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The U.S. government on Thursday delayed approval of a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline until after the 2012 U.S. election, bowing to pressure from environmentalists and sparing President Barack Obama a damaging split with liberal voters he may need to win reelection.
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Oct 03
2011
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Oil and Water don't mix in NebraskaPosted by: eve in Fossil Fuels |
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The old adage that oil and water don't mix is proving true in Nebraska, where hundreds of people filled a small town gymnasium to protest a proposed oil pipeline they fear could pollute a major U.S. drinking water source.
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Aug 24
2011
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The Problem with the PipelinePosted by: Grant Barbeito in Fossil Fuels Tagged in: White House , south dakota , pipeline , oil pipeline , oil drilling , oil , North Dakota , Alaska
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The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would start in the town of Hardisty, which about a hundred and twenty-eight miles southeast of Edmonton. It would cross the Canadian-U.S. border in Montana, jog through western South Dakota, then head down through Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma all the way to refiners on the Gulf Coast. The pipeline, a thousand seven hundred and two miles long, would carry crude from what supporters call the oil sands and critics the tar sands—a huge deposit of very heavy hydrocarbons in central Alberta. (I wrote about the Alberta tar sands for The New Yorker in 2007.)
