Emails: How State Department Secretly Approved Expanding Piece of Enbridge's...
DeSmogBlog has obtained dozens of emails that lend an inside view of how the U.S. State Department secretly handed Enbridge a permit to expand the capacity of its U.S.-Canada border-crossing Alberta...
View ArticleEnbridge Stuffs Provision into Wisconsin Budget to Expedite Controversial...
On Thursday, July 3 on the eve of a long Fourth of July holiday weekend, Canadian pipeline company giant Enbridge landed a sweetheart deal: a provision in the 2015 Wisconsin Budget that will serve to...
View ArticleEmails: Enbridge Attorney, Lobbyist Wrote Provisions into Wisconsin Budget...
Emails reveal that an attorney and lobbyist for Canadian pipeline company giant Enbridge helped draft the controversial provision placed into the 2015 Wisconsin Budget set to fast-track expansion of...
View ArticleEnvironmental Group Launches Lawsuit Against Federal Government Over Pipeline...
One of the country's largest environmental groups has accused the federal government of failing to follow pipeline safety planning laws, alleging that for more than two decades the Department of...
View ArticleJudges Nixing Keystone XL South Cases Had Tar Sands-Related Oil Investments
On August 4, the U.S. Appeals Court for the 10th Circuit shot down the Sierra Club's petition for rehearing motion for the southern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline. The...
View ArticleIs the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Finally Dead?
In August 2014, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau made the trek to the tiny Gitga’at community of Hartley Bay, located along Enbridge’s proposed oil tanker route in northwestern B.C.There, in the village...
View ArticleFederal Court Gives Blessing to Covertly Approved Enbridge Cross-Border Tar...
A federal court has ruled that the Enbridge Alberta Clipper (Line 67) cross-border tar sands pipeline expansion project, permitted covertly and behind closed doors by the Obama Administration, got its...
View ArticleB.C. Orders Enbridge to Seek New Environment Certificate for Northern Gateway
Enbridge will have to secure an environmental assessment certificate from the B.C. government if it wants to proceed with its Northern Gateway oil pipeline according to an order issued by B.C.’s...
View ArticleWeeks Before Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Intensified, Big Oil Pushed for...
In the two months leading up to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to issue to the Dakota Access pipeline project an allotment of Nationwide 12 permits (NWP) — a de facto fast-track federal...
View ArticleSecurity Firm Guarding Dakota Access Pipeline Also Used Psychological Warfare...
G4S, a company hiring security staff to guard the hotly contested Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), also works to guard oil and gas industry assets in war-torn Iraq, and has come under fire by the United...
View ArticlePressure Mounts Against Aging Enbridge Oil and Gas Pipeline Through Great Lakes
Public pressure is mounting to decommission two 63-year-old underwater pipelines that rest in an environmentally sensitive waterway between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.About 540,000 barrels of oil and...
View ArticleDakota Access Pipeline Approved a Week After Co-Owner's Pipeline Spilled...
On January 30, 600,000 gallons (14,285 barrels) of oil spewed out of Enbridge's Seaway Pipeline in Blue Ridge, Texas, the second spill since the pipeline opened for business in mid-2016.Seaway is half...
View ArticleWhat Do Louisiana Pipeline Explosion and Dakota Access Pipeline Have in...
The day after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave the owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) the final permit it needed to build its line across Lake Oahe, which connects to the Missouri River,...
View ArticleHow the Koch Machine Quietly Pushed for the Dakota Access Pipeline and Stands...
Quietly and behind the scenes, a front group funded by the Koch family fortune has lobbied and advocated for the soon-to-be-operating Dakota Access pipeline, a project in which a Koch subsidiary stands...
View ArticleWhile Reviewing Enbridge’s Line 5 for Michigan, Contractor Worked for Same...
A private contractor hired by the state of Michigan to assess an Enbridge oil pipeline running under the Great Lakes was working simultaneously for the company on a related pipeline, a DeSmog...
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