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Flanagan South Oil Sands Pipeline Avoids Keystone XL Scrutiny
Posted by St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Jeffrey Tomich on August 26th, 2013
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The most valuable piece of farmland in Shelby County this summer isn’t growing soybeans or corn. It’s holding a hardier crop -- steel pipe.
On a field just north of this tiny farm town along Missouri Highway 15, about 60 miles of pipe is stacked neatly in four rows that stretch almost as far as the eye can see.
In the coming months, the hundreds of pieces will be strung together as part of Enbridge Energy Co.’s Flanagan South Pipeline, a new 589-mile artery that will transport heavy Canadian...
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Feds Withdraw New Furnace Efficiency Standards
Posted by St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Jeffrey Tomich on January 17th, 2013
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The federal government has agreed to withdraw new rules that would require consumers in Missouri, Illinois and more than two dozen other northern states to purchase high-efficiency furnaces beginning this spring.
The decision is the result of a legal settlement between the Department of Energy and the American Public Gas Association, which argued the new regulations would prove too costly for certain consumers and ultimately steer some of them to heat their homes with other, less-efficient fuels....