"The Grassroots Battle Against Big Oil"
"Activists in Texas are connecting the fight against the Keystone pipeline with the struggle for environmental justice."
Source: The Nation, 10/23/2013
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Regulators Spend More Time With Industry Than Pipeline Spills: Watchdog
"WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Department office charged with overseeing the 2.6 million miles of pipelines in the United States is spending more time at oil and gas industry conferences than it is addressing spills and other incidents, a watchdog group contends in a new report."
Source: Huffington Post, 10/23/2013
"In Canada's Alberta Province, Oil Sands Boom Is a Two-Edged Sword"
"FORT CHIPEWYAN, Canada -- In the Cree language, the word 'athabasca' means 'a place where grass is everywhere.' Here in Alberta, the Athabasca River slices through forests of spruce and birch before spilling into a vast freshwater delta and Lake Athabasca."
Source: LA Times, 10/22/2013
"Tesoro Says No Date Set To Restart Burst North Dakota Pipeline"
"Tesoro Logistics LP said on Monday it still did not have a date to restart a North Dakota oil pipeline that ruptured in September and spilled 20,600 barrels of crude onto farmland."
Source: Reuters, 10/22/2013
"Dutch Government Asks Sea Law Tribunal To Release Activists"
"The Dutch government on Monday asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to order Russia to release 30 people detained last month during an environmental protest in the Arctic Sea."
Source: Reuters, 10/22/2013
"U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Pollution at Lowest Since 1994"
"Carbon dioxide emissions from energy production in the United States fell to 5.29 billion metric tons in 2012 -- its lowest level since 1994 -- despite a growing economy and rising population, according to government data released on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 10/22/2013
"Gas Prices: Will They Fall To $3 a Gallon?"
"Gas prices have plateaued in the past week, but analysts expect fall's broader downward trend to pick up pace again as cooler weather prevails and demand for gas dwindles. National gas prices are likely to get tantalizing close to -- but not quite at -- $3 a gallon."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/21/2013
"Alberta Train Derailment Renews Fears Over Moving Oil By Rail"
"Nine blackened tankers are scattered around the site. Part of the rail is mangled, warped, and burned black."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 10/21/2013
"Nuns With a New Creed: Environmentalism"
"Every woman in this story is confoundingly non-descript. Short hair, often grey. Conservative dress. Unmarried; soft-spoken. Most are well into their 70s, and all will tell you that their way of life is dying out. They will also tell you, with surprising conviction, that the world is in peril."
Source: Grist, 10/18/2013
11 Nobel Laureates Urge Putin To Drop Piracy Charges Against Activists
"MOSCOW -- Eleven Nobel Peace Prize laureates urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to drop piracy charges against 30 people detained over a Greenpeace protest last month at an Arctic oil rig."
Source: Reuters, 10/18/2013
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