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Keystone XL Decision Highlights Coziness Between Oil and Gas Industry, Obama...
This past week was good to the oil and gas industry. First, President Obama talked up jobs gains from drilling and labeled natural gas a “bridge fuel” in his State of the Union address, using...
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Tom Steyer to Secretary of State Kerry: New Review Necessary of "Defective"...
With the State Department’s release of the final Keystone XL environmental review, attention is being refocused on apparent conflicts of interest within both the State Department itself and the...
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WHITEWASH: State Dept Keystone XL Inspector General Report Clears Botched...
The State Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has finally weighed in on potential conflicts of interest in the environmental assessments of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Sort of.The...
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New Obama State Dept Top Energy Diplomat Amos Hochstein A Former Marathon Oil...
The U.S. State Department recently announced that Amos Hochstein, currently the special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, will take over as the State Department's top...
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Heather Zichal, Former Top Obama Energy Aide, Named Fellow at Industry-Funded...
Heather Zichal, former top climate and energy aide to President Barack Obama his top aide in crafting his 2008 presidential campaign energy platform, has joined the industry-funded Atlantic Council as...
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Enbridge Gets Another Federal Tar Sands Crude Pipeline Permit As Senate...
On January 16, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave Enbridge a controversial Nationwide Permit 12 green-light for its proposed Line 78 pipeline, set to bring heavy tar sands diluted bitumen (“dilbit”)...
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Low Oil Prices, High Oilsands Emissions Should Influence Keystone XL...
A letter submitted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the State Department gives new weight to concerns the proposed $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline, destined to carry crude from the...
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Global Shale Fail: Oil Majors Leaving Fracking Fields Across Europe, Asia
With some analysts predicting the global price of oil to see another drop, many oil majors have deployed their parachutes and jumped from the hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) projects rapidly...
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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...
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Emails: 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...
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Exclusive: Hillary Clinton State Department Emails, Mexico Energy Reform and...
Emails released on July 31 by the U.S. State Department reveal more about the origins of energy reform efforts in Mexico. The State Department released them as part of the once-a-month rolling release...
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Prime Minister Harper’s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands...
With U.S. President Barack Obama expected to deny a permit to the Keystone XL pipeline this fall, Canada’s oil industry is looking for someone to blame.The National Post’s Claudia Cattaneo wrote last...
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Fracker Aubrey McClendon Signs Deal in Mexico with Firm Owned by Former...
Aubrey McClendon, former CEO of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) giant Chesapeake Energy and current CEO of American Energy Partners (AEP), has signed a joint venture with a private equity firm owned...
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TransCanada's Next Move After Keystone XL: Flood Mexico with Fracked Gas with...
TransCanada, the owner of the recently-nixed northern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, has won a bid from Mexico's government to build a 155-mile pipeline carrying gas from hydraulic...
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Federal 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...
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