"How the White House Walked Away From 'Clean Coal'"
"A $1 billion Illinois project, meant to be the poster child for coal’s climate-friendly future, gets scuttled."
Source: Bloomberg, 02/17/2015
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"Coastal First Nations Call Out 'Eagle Spirit' Pipeline"
"Energy project seen as Northern Gateway alternative rejected by two vital aboriginal alliances."
Source: Vancouver Tyee, 02/17/2015
"As N.J. Pipeline Network Grows, Safety Is Concern"
"With more than 1,500 miles of aging natural gas pipelines already crisscrossing New Jersey, and five new projects to expand the network’s capacity being proposed or recently completed, federal authorities are raising concerns about the safety of such pipelines nationwide, especially in densely populated areas."
Source: Bergen Record, 02/17/2015
"Another Oil Train Derails, Ignites Fire in Canada"
"Another train carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire in Canada early Sunday, potentially putting pressure on the White House to accelerate its review of new regulations intended to improve the safety of hazardous rail shipments throughout North America."
Source: McClatchy, 02/17/2015
"West Virginia Train Derailment Sends Oil Tanker Into River"
"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Emergency crews and environmental officials are responding to a train derailment in West Virginia that sent at least one tanker containing crude oil into a river and also caused a nearby house to catch fire."
Source: AP, 02/17/2015
Essay: The Sixty-Year Nuclear Pitch
"The nuclear power industry has often been its own worst enemy through its marketing."
Source: EHN, 02/16/2015
"U.S. Rigs Are Being Idled, but the Oil Boom Is Not Ending"
"The U.S. drilling frenzy is over. What’s not is the boom in oil production."
Source: Bloomberg, 02/16/2015
Judge Dismissses Wetlands Damage Suit Against Oil, Gas Companies
"A federal judge on Friday (Feb. 13) dismissed a controversial wetlands damage lawsuit filed by the east bank levee authority against more than 80 oil, gas and pipeline companies, ruling that the authority failed to make a valid claim against the energy firms."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 02/16/2015
"The Cost of Clean Coal"
Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, is building a so-called "clean coal" plant in Mississippi. The cost has ballooned from the original estimate of $1.8 billion to the current $6.17 billion (and counting). As the residents of rural Kemper County can tell you, that is just the beginning. It will strip mine lignite from 48 square miles of timber and pasture land.
Source: Grist, 02/13/2015
"A Forest’s Family Roots Stand in a Pipeline’s Path"
An ecological treasure, a forest maintained by the Kernan Family in upstate New York for seven decades, is now "threatened by the construction of the Constitution Pipeline, a $700 million, 124-mile conduit designed to transport natural gas from the Marcellus Shale fields of northeast Pennsylvania" to pipelines serving markets in New York and New England.
Source: NY Times, 02/13/2015
