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Exxon Mopping Up New Oil Spill

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:15:59 CDT

Amid reports of eyeless shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico, some good news for BP: There's a new oil spill, and it's not theirs. Rather, Exxon Mobil is cleaning up about 80,000 gallons of oil that spilled from a pipeline in rural Louisiana. The company says the pipeline was...

Move Over, Keystone: 2 More Pipelines Planned

Kevin Spak — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:39:45 CDT

The Keystone XL pipeline may be mired in politics, but take heart, pipeline lovers: With Canadian crude oil production soaring, Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners and Calgary-based Enbridge hope to build two new pipelines to pump it to US refineries, the Wall Street Journal reports. The companies intend to build a...

Obama Vows to Speed Up Part of Pipeline

Rob Quinn — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:17:19 CDT

President Obama defended his oil policy yesterday, pledging to speed up approval of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone pipeline project. "Anyone who says that we're somehow suppressing domestic oil production isn't paying attention," he said, adding that boosting production in the US won't be enough to bring prices...

US Refineries Close, Pushing Gas Prices Higher

Mark Russell — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:20:50 CDT

Add one more victim to the soaring price of petroleum—refineries. Yes, despite gas prices rising another 6% in February, refineries in the US Northeast are shutting down because they're losing money, reports Wall Street Journal . And with Philadelphia-based Sunoco set to close the largest refinery in the region in...

Congress Passes Wrong Pipeline Bill

Kevin Spak — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:15:22 CST

It was a rare moment of bicameral, bipartisan compromise—and also a complete screw-up. The House and Senate hurriedly passed a pipeline safety bill on Tuesday, but not the one they thought they were passing, Politico reports. Thanks to a "clerical error," the House wound up passing an earlier version...

Pipeline Safety Bill Clears Congress

Rob Quinn — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:55:00 CST

Add another item to the list of things Congress can actually agree on: pipeline safety. A bill to make America's 2.3 million miles of pipelines safer has cleared the House and Senate with surprising speed and is headed for President Obama's desk, reports the Los Angeles Times . The legislation...

Syrian Oil Pipeline Explodes

Kevin Spak — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:53:34 CST

An explosion ripped through a pipeline pumping oil to the Syrian flashpoint city of Homs today, sending thick plumes of smoke into the sky, the New York Times reports. Syria's state-run Sana news agency blamed the blast on "armed terrorist groups," while anti-government activists speculated that the regime may have...

White House to Delay Keystone Pipeline Decision

John Johnson — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:43:31 CST

Looks like the controversial Keystone XL pipeline won't be an election issue after all. The White House is going to push back the decision on whether to allow it to be built for another year, reports the Washington Post . Specifically, officials will consider a new route through Nebraska for the...

8K Protesters Ring White House

Mark Russell — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:22:00 CST

More than 8,000 environmental activists descended on the White House yesterday, forming a human chain to protest a 1,700-mile pipeline that TransCanada Corp. wants to build through six states, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Unlike August's protests, when 1,200 were arrested , there were no busts....