Add another to the list of House committees taking shots at the Obama administration's lengthy review of the Keystone XL pipeline. The Science, Space and Technology Committee's Energy and Environment subpanels tomorrow will convene a joint hearing on the scientific and environmental issues surrounding the proposed Alberta-to-Texas crude pipeline.
A coalition of American Indian tribes is urging the Obama administration to reconsider how the Keystone XL pipeline would affect tribal land. The National Congress of American Indians, in comments submitted last month to the State Department about the proposed pipeline, called on the agency to mitigate the project's potentially harmful effects on tribal water supplies and sacred sites.
A pending House measure to force approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline would have no significant effect on the federal budget, the Congressional Budget Office said today. The bill, H.R. 3, would exempt the proposed cross-border pipeline from a requirement to receive a presidential permit and deem other required regulatory reviews as approved.
HOUSTON -- The resource potential of the booming Bakken Shale oil and gas zone is much bigger than previously thought, U.S. government geologists announced yesterday.
With the heft to carry half a million barrels of oil daily, the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline is a huge proposal. But behind the furor over it lies an even bigger question: How should America approach the massive fuel reserves that its northern neighbor is working overtime to tap?
The $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared a key hurdle today, as the State Department finalized an environmental review that found limited hazards from the controversial Canada-to-U.S. project.
OUTSIDE FORT McMURRAY, Alberta -- Hold a vial of pumped and processed oil to the light here, just before it enters the pipeline that one executive jokingly calls "the cash register," and you can see a layer of watery sediment settled at the bottom. Environmental and safety groups warn that this diluted bitumen poses a greater risk of pipeline corrosion and spills than conventional fuel or the synthetic crude also produced from the Canadian oil sands.
In the year since a cap-and-trade climate bill failed on Capitol Hill, a funny thing happened -- gradually but unmistakably -- to the U.S.-Canada pipeline project known as Keystone XL: It became the global warming fight's new guise. Keystone XL's ascension from little-known commodity to fodder for a marquee bout between industry groups and environmentalists is set to start its last leg tomorrow, as green advocates converge on the White House for a two-week demonstration against the $7 billion proposal.
WOOD BUFFALO, Alberta -- Along the verdant knolls and shallow streams of Wapisiw Lookout, foxes scamper and raptors nest amid newly planted trees. If not for the refinery flares in the distance and the checkpoint that screens visitors to Wapisiw, one might forget that the grassy 550-acre landscape spent the past four decades as a waste pond for Canada's largest energy company.