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Tag: Keystone Pipeline

  • Friday, August 29th 2014 - 06:49 UTC

    New technology could end the debate over pipeline safety

    Despite advances smart pigs aren’t terribly accurate. Pipeline operations have to shut down and analyzing the data smart pigs gather can take some time

    Who could have ever imagined that North America would surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas liquids? A decade ago, that would have seemed laughable. Yet that’s exactly what has happened; and it’s not just Saudi Arabia that has been left in North America’s dust -- Russia has, too.

  • Monday, June 24th 2013 - 18:00 UTC

    Extreme energy, extreme implications: interview with Michael Klare

    Highly pollutant tar sands in central Canada

    Interview by James Stafford of Oilprice.com - If oil and gas is a profoundly dynamic phenomenon, then so too must be environmental risk and conflicts over natural resources—and we are not getting the full picture from the mainstream media, according to Michael T. Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, TomDispatch blogger.