Energy & Fuel

"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

CRS Reports No Longer Secret, Thanks to FAS Secrecy Project

Congress keeps secret the top-notch nonpartisan explainers from the Congressional Research Service. Or tries to. Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project, you can read the reports your tax dollars paid for below.

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State Department Hunkers in Secrecy Bunker over Keystone XL

Is the State Department review of whether to permit the Keystone XL pipeline transparent? Not at all. State spokesperson Jen Psaki stiff-armed the Associated Press' Matt Lee February 3, 2015, when he asked whether all eight agencies invited to comment had done so.

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Lawyer Moved Halliburton Unit Bribes Through Secret Swiss HSBC Accounts

"A network of secretive banks and offshore tax havens was used to funnel $182 million in bribes to Nigerian officials in exchange for $6 billion in engineering and construction work for an international consortium of companies that included a then Halliburton subsidiary."

Source: Ctr for Public Integrity, 02/11/2015

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