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State Department Keystone Draft Supplementary EIS Assessment Released

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The State Department released the latest documents in one of the highest-profile and highest-stakes projects in the North American energy sector today.

The Draft Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement was released March 1, 2013, and includes extensive information on the project, which has attracted the ire of a wide swathe the environmental community and been treated by the oil and gas business as a litmus test of the Obama Administration’s commitment to securing energy supply and energy security through increased development. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 1, 2013 at 4:00 PM

Canadian Prime Minister Harper ‘optimistic’ for U.S. pipeline approval http://huff.to/YQyvbJ

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Canadian Prime Minister Harper ‘optimistic’ for U.S. pipeline approval http://huff.to/YQyvbJ HuffPostGreen

 /  Published November 8, 2012 at 10:40 AM

Shell Oil Sands Project May Set Precedent for CCS

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Shell’s plans to build the world’s first oil sands carbon-capture storage facility in Alberta, Canada will make only a modest reduction in that project’s overall carbon emissions but could set an important precedent in establishing the credibility of CCS worldwide, analysts said.

The oil giant said Wednesday that the US$1.36 billion project will create underground storage starting in late 2015 for more than 1 million tones a year of C02 produced in the processing of bitumen from Alberta’s oil sands, one of the world’s largest reserves of crude oil. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM

Government at the Pace of Business: Evaluating US Election Year Energy Policy

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Energy policy in the US has been a prominent issue leading up to the elections this fall and the topic could gain momentum along the way. Commodity price manipulation, fracking, the Keystone pipeline and environmental regulations were just a few of the topics discussed at a breakfast panel held by the American Petroleum Institute in Washington DC this morning.

Recent upward trending US oil and natural gas production is great news for the nation, but the political system is driven by negatives, said former Senator and Congressman of North Dakota, Byron Dorgan. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 15, 2012 at 1:15 PM

Keystone pipeline: Separating reality from rhetoric

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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the southern site of the Keystone XL pipeline on March 22, 2012 in Cushing, Oklahoma

President Obama stopped in Cushing, Okla., on Thursday to announce a fast-track approval process for a portion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline — although it’s not the part for which he’s taken political heat for blocking. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 22, 2012 at 1:30 PM
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