Keystone XL Pipeline

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The Keystone XL pipeline is the most scrutinized infrastructure project ever. Indeed, safety and protecting the environment are key industry priorities. So let’s move on.[read more]

tar sands

On the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, EPA rated the adequacy of the State Department’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as having “Insufficient Information.”[read more]

Alberta tar sands

It's not in our national interest. It's a profit scheme for big oil. It would feed our addiction to fossil fuels, accelerate climate change and put our heartland farmers, ranchers and communities at risk. It needs to be denied.[read more]

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Economic, energy and environmental considerations figure into the answer, but ultimately the president is charged with determining whether Keystone XL will make our country stronger and safer without impacting the environment.[read more]

Keystone protest

 

As analysts committed to addressing climate change, we applaud the organizers’ show of strength against Keystone XL, but recommend they switch targets and address a carbon enemy more worthy of their army: U.S. coal.[read more]

Keystone XL supporters

To hear the other side, you’d think the Keystone XL pipeline project would be nearly 1,200 miles of all pain, no gain for the United States. No rewards? The State Department has reviewed Keystone four times and finds rewards aplenty.[read more]

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Last month's publication of the State Department's latest environmental impact report on the Keystone XL pipeline project has sparked great interest in the logistics of shipping crude oil by rail.[read more]

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The Shell Oil owned pipeline burst was detected Friday by the US National Response Center and has dumped an estimated 30,000 gallons of oil into a waterway connected to the Gulf of Mexico.[read more]

White House climate policy

President Obama’s science and technology advisors have released a new set of recommendations on climate policy that are indicative of a growing consensus around pragmatic, commonsense actions.[read more]

Athabasca River

The promise of the Alberta and Canadian government to protect the critical waters of the region remains unfulfilled. These broken promises should be considered in reviews whether or not to approve Keystone XL.[read more]

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Let’s not miss the point that a project of this size can stimulate the economy beyond itself. 117,000 new U.S. jobs linked to oil sands development because of the Keystone XL would be created by 2035.[read more]

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Absent a federal effort to manage carbon emissions, there will be a pitched battle over every new pipeline and every new coal-burning power plant. We could keep fighting like this forever. Or we could work together on a federal climate policy.[read more]

There’s no use talking about new energy sources without assessing the social, political, and economic contexts into which they might emerge. For unless a nascent technology can command broad stakeholder assent within a given socio-political context, the technology is likely to remain marginal within it. The Canadian oil sands, which I discussed here previously, provide a case in point. And, perhaps, a harbinger of things to come.[read more]

Canadian Hydropower

Canadian hydropower has contributed to America’s clean energy economy, and has the potential to provide our nation with more clean energy. How can Canada and the United States strengthen this relationship?[read more]

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On January 21st, our nation listened as President Obama made his second inaugural speech. Thousands were in attendance as he made references to a variety of topics including immigration reform, gun violence, equal pay for women, and of course, climate change.President Obama emphasized the importance of our country’s actions in order to...[read more]