EnergyWire reporter Peter Behr discusses infrastructure issues surrounding LNG exports, Keystone XL. (OnPoint, 03/08/2012)
Consumer Energy Alliance's Michael Whatley says Keystone XL would serve interest of American consumers. (OnPoint, 02/06/2012)
Bold Nebraska's Jane Kleeb discusses possible TransCanada reroute of Keystone XL pipeline. (OnPoint, 02/01/2012)
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?
Nebraska landowners and environmentalists seeking to stop the Keystone XL pipeline today filed a court challenge to a law enacted by their state Legislature to fast-track approval of a new route for the $5.3 billion Canada-to-U.S. project. The lawsuit filed in Nebraska's Supreme Court argues the pipeline statute violates the state constitution by giving the governor the power to greenlight a final route for Keystone XL and attendant eminent domain authority for TransCanada Corp. without due process or judicial review.
The company that carries President Obama's blessing as it presses ahead with the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline has changed its route to avoid a requirement for U.S. EPA to weigh in on its Clean Water Act permit -- and the potential of the agency to object on environmental grounds -- according to the Army Corps of Engineers.
Environmentalists are diving into the politically murky pool of fuel export policy as they stoke resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline, branding it as a tool for Gulf Coast refiners to boost production of profitable diesel at the expense of the U.S. gasoline supply.
The new green message carries the promise of mass appeal -- though prices at the pump have fallen in recent weeks, they remain top of mind for many lawmakers. Yet the export case against the Canada-to-U.S. pipeline also ties its opponents to an argument that has the unique ability to put the refining industry and President Obama on the same page.
| 08/26/2011 | OIL SANDS: Canada-U.S. pipeline poses few environmental risks -- State Dept.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. |  Greenwire |
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| 08/23/2011 | OIL SANDS: With emotions high and evidence low, pipeline corrosion questions hound Keystone XLOUTSIDE 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. | Greenwire |
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| 08/19/2011 | OIL AND GAS: Protest makes Keystone XL newest front in climate clashIn 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. | Greenwire |
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| 08/16/2011 | OIL AND GAS: Reclaimed dump sparks oil sands sustainability debateWOOD 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. | Greenwire |
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