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Category Archives: environment
Alternative to Keystone XL
Update: It turns out the risk assessment on which I’ve based my thinking leaves out pump stations, opening an important question about the legitimacy of the method that produced the numbers I’ve cited below and on many other occasions. It … Continue reading
EID responds to NRDC; I waited eleven months for this?
EID finally got around to answering NRDC’s list of possible hydraulic fracturing incidents. I’ve griped about the delay before: The one obvious agreement between environmentalists and industry is that there are more anecdotes of possible fracking catastrophes than EID wants … Continue reading
Another strong statement of the narrow argument against KXL
From a letter to the Lufkin Daily News: Your op-ed reads that pipelines are safe. Typically, sure. But you forget to make an important distinction, here. Tar sands oil pipelines are not safe. Canadian pipelines of this sort fail 16 … Continue reading
Meta-tastic: the spreading reaction to NYT’s Keystone XL editorial
I’m collecting links to organized media’s reactions to the NYT editorial as I see them. If I’m missing something, let me know at andrewottosonblog@gmail.com. (Those in bold analyzed; italics added value; plain regurgitated.) MEDIA: Postmedia/Sheldon Alberts: Keystone XL pipeline proposal … Continue reading
NYT makes the narrow case against Keystone XL
In its April 2 editorial, the New York Times unites a broad case against tar sands development with a narrow case against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project. In doing so, it exposes the absence of a credible argument in … Continue reading
Smartest take on Gasland so far
Here’s the article. Here’s the quote: The state of Pennsylvania is the latest member of the shale gas coalition to fail to grasp the industry’s possibly crippling PR malady. … Shale gas skeptics have created a widely accepted narrative that … Continue reading
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Will President Obama mention Keystone XL in energy speech today?
(Update: Financial Post’s take. I’m with @JoshatNRDC on this one.) The headline question is the first thing I wondered upon seeing the news that Obama will reiterate what has been a national goal going on four decades: to cut oil … Continue reading
Keystone pipeline news and notes 9
The big news in #8 was the State Department’s decision to require a supplemental draft EIS. I’ll be updating this post with the latest at the bottom. You can contact me at andrewottosonblog@gmail.com. A week Canadian energy became supreme – … Continue reading
Perspectives on pipeline safety, II
As part of its ongoing series, The Tyee has another cogent dissection of the Keystone XL debate out today. It distinguishes right off the top between the two main lines of argument environmentalists have brought to bear on TransCanada’s proposed … Continue reading
Keystone pipeline news and notes 8
A week after the fact, Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns’ declaration that Keystone XL “Needs to Be Delayed” still looks like the most important item in #7. (#9 is here.) I’ll be updating this post with the latest at the bottom. … Continue reading