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Human health and environmental impacts in Canada: http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor...st-of-Oil.html
Even folks in Texas have been affected: http://www.texasobserver.org/keyston...crossing-line/
U.S. Ruling Loosens Four-Decade Ban On Oil Exports
The Obama administration cleared the way for the first exports of unrefined American oil in nearly four decades, allowing energy companies to start chipping away at the longtime ban on selling U.S. oil abroad.
In separate rulings that haven't been announced, the Commerce Department gave Pioneer Natural Resources Co. and Enterprise Products Partners LP permission to ship a type of ultralight oil known as condensate to foreign buyers. The buyers could turn the oil into gasoline, jet fuel and diesel.
The shipments could begin as soon as August and are likely to be small, people familiar with the matter said. It isn't clear how much oil the two companies are allowed to export under the rulings, which were issued since the start of this year. The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security approved the moves using a process known as a private ruling.
For now, the rulings apply narrowly to the two companies, which said they sought permission to export processed condensate from south Texas' Eagle Ford Shale formation. The government's approval is likely to encourage similar requests from other companies, and the Commerce Department is working on industrywide guidelines that could make it even easier for companies to sell U.S. oil abroad.
In a statement Tuesday night, the Commerce Department said there has been "no change in policy on crude oil exports."
Under rules imposed after the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s, U.S. companies can export refined fuel such as gasoline and diesel but not oil itself except in limited cir stances that require a special license. The embargo essentially excludes Canada, where U.S. oil can flow with a special permit.
Lawmakers enacted the ban after Arab countries declared an embargo on shipments to Western nations because of their support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War. The embargo caused oil prices to quadruple and led to rationing at gas stations across the U.S.
But as drilling companies tap shale formations across the U.S., so much oil is flooding out of the ground that prices for ultralight oil have fallen as much as $10 or more below the price of traditional crude. As a result, producers have lobbied aggressively to relax the export ban, saying they could get a higher price from foreign buyers than from U.S. refiners.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-r...eas-1403644494
Human health and environmental impacts in Canada: http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor...st-of-Oil.html
Even folks in Texas have been affected: http://www.texasobserver.org/keyston...crossing-line/
BigOil and their Repug s don't GAF, priorities are to gut EPA and approve KXL
Last edited by boutons_deux; 11-11-2014 at 09:36 AM.
Obama will sign it and Dems will vote for it, yet you write them off as hapless dupes owned by corporations, when in fact they carry water for them, just like the Republicans.
list for me the Dems, leadership and others, who are pushing hard for approving KXL and gutting of EPA?
Dems will mostly go along with Repug craziness, which is why they are so hard to support.
Keystone XL Pipeline: Lame-Duck Congress Fast-Tracks Legislation
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...lation-n247761
what could go wrong? the low price of oil
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incom...article546652/Alberta’s embattled oil sands face well known risks from foreign radicals, movie stars, environmentalists and stalled pipelines projects. But there may be an even scarier threat: plain old economics.
The lure of the oil sands is that they hold some of the world’s biggest petroleum reserves. The bad news is that getting this resource out of the ground and ready for refining is expensive, by some estimates the planet’s most costly major oil source. Oil prices have to stay lofty to make investments in the sector pay. Any faltering in prices could cause profits to be elusive, or evaporate.
Just how close new oil sands projects are to being a dicey investment proposition is an open question. For compe ive reasons, some major companies – such as Imperial Oil Ltd., developer of the mammoth $30-billion Kearl megaproject – aren’t forthcoming on the oil prices needed to earn a decent return.
But the National Energy Board, culling through publicly available data from the industry, recently pegged the minimum price needed for new projects to be commercially viable at $85 to $95 (U.S.) a barrel.
Sky People getting punked by their allies the Saudis.
"sky people?"
a pop culture allusion, try google.
leaders? they pushed for XL, and like Landrieu, most lost anyway, were in red states.
Rumors around that Obama will block XL and Senate can't override.
CEO of TransCanada Concedes just 50 permanent jobs from Keystone XL Pipeline
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...?detail=email#
Repugs' LIE is that blocking KXL is preferring environment over 50K jobs.
The Repugs' TRUTH is Repugs are paid by BigCarbon to the people, the environment.
The Keystone XL pipeline must be built because it is the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Keystone XL pipeline must be built only so that the people who oppose it are defeated.
The Keystone XL pipeline must be built because it is no longer a construction project, it is an article of the conservative faith.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_GOP_Must_be_Crazy
Most Americans Support Keystone XL Pipeline
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6186606.html
Most Americans don't give a , are disengaged, and/or are ignorant and/or stupid. The BigOil LIES have been relentless, just as they have been for denying GLOBAL WARMING.
12 leaks already, lets do this thing!
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/as...r_sands_p.html
There's Been HOW Many Pipeline Spills in Alberta in The Last Four Months??
Over the past year WCNN has reported on many Crude oil and Toxic produced water spills all over Alberta, in fact we have reported over 600,000 Litres of toxic crap that has been spilled just last month and yet not one mainstream media outlet has picked up the incidents.
So lets take a look back at just the last month (October) and see just what the mainstream is not telling you.
Oct 3, 2014 – Canadian Natural Resources Limited – 11Km East of Delia – 10,000 litres of Crude oil
Oct 5, 2014 – Nexen Energy ULC – 2.5Km SouthWest of Kinosis – 5,800 litres of Toxic water
Oct 5, 2014 – Cenovus Energy Inc – 56Km East of Brooks – 9,800 litres of Toxic water
Oct 5, 2014 – Nexen Energy ULC – 41Km SouthEast of Ft. McMurray – 13,000 litres of Condensate
Oct 10, 2014 – Husky Oil – 30Km SouthEast of Vermilion – 50,000 litres of Crude oil and 25,000 litres of toxic water
Oct 13, 2014 – Arc Resources – 5Km North of Redwater – 150,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 11, 2014 – TAQA North Ltd – 44Km SouthWest of Spirit River – 24,000 litres of Crude oil
Oct 14, 2014 – Whitecap Resources Inc – 37Km NorthWest of Sexsmith – 10,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 15, 2014 – Penn West Petroleum Ltd -14Km SouthEast of Slave Lake – 52,000 litres Crude oil
Oct 14, 2014 – Zargon Oil & Gas Ltd – 26Km NorthWest of Vauxhall – 8,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 17, 2014 – TAQA North Ltd – 32Km NorthWest of Rocky Mountain House – 18,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 21, 2014 – Harvest Operations Corp – 20Km East of Galahad – 200,000 litres of Toxic water
Oct 26, 2014 – Apache Canada Ltd -9Km East of Zama City – 50,000 litres of Toxic water
Total = Over 625,000 Litres of toxic crap spilled in Alberta for just the month of October and not one Mainstream media reports about it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...s?detail=email
America’s Oil And Gas Industry Averaged At Least 20 Spills Per Day In 2013
Despite missing data from one of the largest natural gas-producing states in the nation,an EnergyWire analysis released Monday found that the U.S. oil and gas industry was responsible for at least 7,662 spills, blowouts, and leaks in 2013 — an average of about 20 spills per day.
The figure represents an 18 percent increase in the number of spills EnergyWire counted in 2012, when 6,546 accidents were tallied. Though most of the spills were small, their combined volume added up to more than 26 million gallons of oil, gas, hydraulic fracturing fluid, and other substances, the report said.
The increase in drilling accidents since 2012 is particularly jarring because the United States has not actually seen an increase in drilling sites. According to January data from the American Petroleum ins ute, the total number of wells in the country in 2013 stayed largely the same, actually decreasing one percent since 2012.
The decrease, according to API, is because the U.S. drilled substantially less gas wells in 2013, but increased its oil drilling — a trend seen most notably in Montana. There, spills were up 48 percent, largely in line with the 42 percent increase in rig count figures. In North Dakota’s booming Bakken Shale, though, spills jumped by 42 percent while rig numbers dropped 8 percent, another startling figure apparently driven by hasty, irresponsible development.
“We still have this mentality that we have to go faster and faster,” Don Morrison of the environmental group Dakota Resource Council, told EnergyWire. “When you’re rushing, things go wrong.”
Despite exhaustive state-by-state analysis of data, EnergyWire was unable to retrieve spill information from Louisiana, because the state did not apparently have an accessible list of spills. Louisiana officials reportedly told the publication that the information could be found in a Coast Guard’s National Response Center database, which is shut down. The state has not yet fulfilled EnergyWire’s March 21 Freedom of Information Act request for the data.
The lack of information from Louisiana is especially troubling given the amount of potential the state has for spills. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Louisiana was second only to Texas in 2013 in both total and operating refinery capacity, and also has an enormous industrial sector consisting of multiple refineries and petrochemical plants. Louisiana in 2011 was one of the country’s top natural gas producers, accounting for a little under 10 percent of total natural gas production in the nation.
As EnergyWire’s report notes, data for each state’s spill records are difficult to compile. There is no national database for oil spills or other fossil fuel-related accidents. (An exhaustive Nexis search was required for ThinkProgress’ list of the 45 worst fossil fuel disasters of 2013.) Each state reports spills differently — some requiring official public records requests, and some charging money for the information.
And even that information is not always comprehensive. According to an October report in the Associated Press, nearly 300 oil spills and 750 “oil field incidents” that occurred in North Dakota since January 2012 went unreported to the public. Like many other oil-producing states, North Dakota regulators are not obliged to tell the public about oil spills under state law.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...l-spills-2013/
McConnell: First Bill In GOP Senate Will Be To Approve Keystone Pipeline
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
Keystone XL pipeline may no longer make economic sense, experts say
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-keystone-20141216-story.html
The GOP should just get the foreplay over with and declare war on the natural environment.
Obama protects Alaska's 'precious' Bristol Bay from oil, gas development
In a boon to commercial fishermen, conservationists and Alaska Natives, President Obama on Tuesday withdrew the waters off Alaska’s Bristol Bay from oil and gas development, vowing to protect the world’s biggest sockeye salmon fishery.
Calling the region “one of America’s greatest natural resources and a massive economic engine, not only for Alaska but for America,” Obama said he was taking it “off the bidder’s block” and would “make sure that it is preserved into the future.”
“Bristol Bay has supported Native Americans in the Alaska region for centuries,” Obama said. “It supports $2 billion in the commercial fishing industry. It supplies America with 40% of its wild-caught seafood. It is a natural wonder, and it’s something that’s just too precious to be putting out to the highest bidder.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...216-story.html
Barry's gonna go Crazy N!gg@ and kick some Repug ass for 2 years.
next up, rescheduling mj from I to IV, for which the Exec has unilateral authority.
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