| Digital Journal: NextGen Climate Action Announces Summit: Can Keystone Pass The President's Climate Test? – On Monday, December 2nd, U.S. and Canadian experts will convene to explore the pivotal question President Obama posed during his June 25th speech at Georgetown University: Would Keystone XL "significantly exacerbate" carbon pollution? |
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The Hill: States file brief against EPA rules – Nine states are lining up against the Obama administration in an upcoming Supreme Court case over contentious environmental regulations. The states filed a friend of the court brief with the high court on Thursday to oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) attempt to regulate power plant emissions that cross state lines.
Dallas News: EPA pollution meeting yields sharply different views – In the auditorium of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library on Thursday, and in a separate space opened to accommodate the overflow, the two sides on the issue of controlling carbon pollution and greenhouse gases in Texas were unmistakable. Call them T-shirts and suits.
Breaking Energy: Energy Quote of the Day: Senator Markey Makes a Strange Request of TransCanada – Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey has made a rather odd request of TransCanada: that it seek to influence the marketing operations of refiners that buy Canadian crude oil shipped through the Keystone XL pipeline.
National Journal: Keystone XL Faces New Legal Challenge – A legal challenge to the environmental permitting process to which the Keystone XL pipeline has been subject was upheld Wednesday, Bloomberg reports. Texas landowner Michael Bishop filed a petition in April arguing that the Army Corps of Engineers failed to hold the requisite public hearings before completing its review of the project in violation of federal environmental regulations. Bishop has now been granted an entry of default against the Corps and will be allowed to petition a U.S. magistrate with a request that the permits given to TransCanada, the company set to build the pipeline, be invalidated.
Edmonton Journal: Redford to make final pitch to U.S. lawmakers as Keystone pipeline decision looms – Premier Alison Redford has released an updated itinerary for her upcoming trip to Washington, where her schedule includes meetings with the U.S. Department of State, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
York News-Times: City renews lease agreement for pipeline staging area – Thursday night, the York City Council agreed to renew a three-year agreement with the Nebraska Department of Roads that will allow TransCanada to continue leasing a plot of land that could be used as a staging area if the Keystone XL pipeline is constructed.
CBC News: NDP to make case that Keystone XL 'not in Canada's best interest' – As previewed yesterday, the New Democrats will devote today's opposition debate to the Keystone XL pipeline — and, specifically, their contention that, on balance, it is 'not in Canada's best interest' — in an effort to force Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and his party to put their position on the record in advance of the Toronto-Centre by-election later this month.
Reuters: Colorado an energy battleground as towns ban fracking – Three Colorado cities have rejected oil and gas production work that relies on so-called fracking, unofficial election returns showed on Wednesday in a setback for an industry that won other battles this year in Democratic strongholds like California.
Bloomberg: Exxon, BP Among Explorers Urged to Disclose More Fracking Data – North American shale explorers led by Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and BP Plc (BP/) are failing to disclose enough data on how they’re reducing risks associated with hydraulic fracturing, according to a study.
National Journal: Colorado's Elections Were Fracked – Forget weed and secession, Colorado's elections were fracked. On Tuesday, voters in three Colorado cities, including this college town about an hour north of Denver and nearby Lafayette and Boulder, passed initiatives against fracking, a drilling technique key to extracting oil and natural gas around the country but controversial for its environmental risks. A similar measure in the town of Broomfield failed by an extremely narrow margin, and two cities in Ohio, Bowling Green and Youngstown, also defeated anti-fracking initiatives.
Associated Press: NY Republican leader jabs Cuomo over fracking – As state Republican Chairman Ed Cox leads an attack Wednesday on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's indecision over whether to approve hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, Democrats attacked Cox's own personal stock and position with a global natural gas drilling company.
Michigan Radio: Will proposed regulations change fracking in Michigan? – Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality proposed a list of new rules for hydraulic fracturing in the state — commonly known as fracking.
San Francisco Chronicle: Report: Too little data on reducing fracking risk – North American shale explorers led by Chevron, Exxon Mobil and BP are failing to disclose enough data on how they're reducing risks associated with hydraulic fracturing, according to a study.
Times Union: Enviro groups call out Cox, praise Cuomo’s go-slow approach – A coalition of environmental groups with a spectrum of concerns about the natural gas drilling technique known as hydrofracking held a Thursday-morning press conference at the Capitol to slam state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox, who gave the keynote address Wednesday night at a gathering of the Independent Oil & Gas Association in Buffalo.
Bloomberg: OPEC Sees Less Demand for its Oil to 2018 Amid Shale Boom – OPEC acknowledged it underestimated the significance of the North American energy boom as it tripled estimates for shale oil produced there and predicted a decline in demand for its own crude through to 2018.
Forbes: 6 Nuclear Plants That Could Be Next To Shut Down – Nuclear isn’t dead, according to Morningstar analysts, but cheap natural gas has shuttered some plants and left others at risk.
E & E News: Offshore drilling brings downtrodden seaport back from near-extinction – The end of the tourist season has brought some calm to this picturesque seaside city often described as a smaller, colder version of San Francisco. With the leaves turning and the last cruise ship of the year having departed just a few days earlier, the city was hunkering down into winter mode during a recent visit. But even with less foot traffic on the streets, boutique business owners didn't seem too worried. In a recent poll on economic conditions taken by the St. John's Board of Trade, more than 94 percent of respondents reported they were experiencing "good" or "excellent" business conditions this year.
Tribune Review: Pittsburgh Technical Institute focuses on shale-related job skills – The Pittsburgh Technical Institute's new, $3.5 million Energy Technology Center is part of a training pipeline to fill high-demand jobs in the Marcellus shale industry, officials said. “We designed our curriculum specifically working with energy companies,” PTI spokeswoman Linda Allan said
My San Antonio: 3 Texas universities to start safety institute for offshore drilling – Three Texas universities will launch a new safety institute designed to help offshore drilling regulators keep pace with rapidly evolving technology for extracting oil and gas from the sea floor, Interior Department officials announced Thursday.
Alaska Journal of Commerce: Shell to focus on Chukchi, delay Beaufort work – Shell says it will have to scrap its damaged offshore drilling vessel Kulluk and will instead bring a semi-submersible rig to the Arctic along with its drillship Noble Discoverer when exploration resumes in the Chukchi Sea. However, the company will have to forego exploration in the Beaufort Sea, at least for now. “We just don’t have the drilling equipment available,” Shell spokeswoman Megan Baldino said Nov. 5.
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