If shipping crude oil by rail is safer than shipping it by pipeline, the derailment proves that it is still not fail-safe, and the clean-up is just as tricky.
“California regulates massage therapists more than hydraulic fracturing,” says state Assembly member Richard Bloom, one of the three Democrats calling for a fracking moratorium in the state.
Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) CEO Greg Armstrong described rail as “a pipeline on wheels,” one that his company has invested $1billion into in the past three months.
Greenpeace activists have interrupted drilling operations on Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya Arctic oil platfform.
I share that fear with this resident. It is a fear that each of these spills is happening and being forgotten -- labelled as an isolated incident and not the epidemic it has become. In this latest spill that dumped between 160,000 and half a million litres of oil into Red Deer River, there is a little victim that is unforgettable.
The White House and BP have been hiding the truth about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf.
A delegation from the International Energy Agency spent two days in Baghdad speaking with high-ranking officials in preparation for an end-of-year report on the country's oil sector. By some estimates, Iraq could hold some of the largest oil reserves in the world and an international auction for oil and natural gas blocks is planned for May. Without a hydrocarbon law, and considering the fractured political system, the IEA's report may be more about political obstacles than oil potential, however.
In his address to the nation this week, President Obama reiterated his plan to pull the U.S. energy industry out from the shadows.
Oil has been the one major factor for war in the past 40 years across the world. America has honored the brave soldiers that have volunteered to serve and protect our great nation.
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