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Inside the Oil-Shipping Industry That Brought Disaster to Lac-Mégantic
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 3rd, 2013
Globe and Mail: Long before disaster struck, the 5,900 residents of Lac-Mégantic had grown accustomed to the sight of large oil tankers rolling through their small, tightly knit community in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
A shortage of oil pipelines in North America had created a new kind of railway industry traversing the continent. In just a few years, tankers carrying crude oil from the resource-rich West had grown from a mere 8,000 in 2009 to nearly 400,000, and Lac-Mégantic is located along one of the...
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Northern Gateway Opponents Preparing for Legal Battle with Canadian Government
Posted by Hill Times: Chris Plecash on December 3rd, 2013
Hill Times: Opponents of Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline project are preparing for a legal showdown with the federal government in 2014, even though the project's Joint Review Panel has yet to make its final recommendations.
The project would run directly through the riding of NDP MP and Opposition House Leader Nathan Cullen (Skeena-Bulkley Valley, B.C.), an outspoken critic of the project and intervenor in the panel's hearings.
Mr. Cullen said that he doesn't have much faith in the panel's forthcoming...
Wisconsin Sandstorm Blows Through Minnesota
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 3rd, 2013
Wall Street Journal: LIFE’S A BEACH FOR SAND MINERS The U.S. shale bonanza is creating a boom in another, perhaps less likely, commodity—sand, a key ingredient in fracking. Sand use has increased 25% since 2011, The Wall Street Journal’s Alison Sider and Kristin Jones report, with a further 20% rise expected in the next two years. Oil companies need enormous quantities of sand to pour down oil and gas wells and flush out fossil fuels. It takes 25 railcars of sand, on average, to frack one well, and companies are experimenting...