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Link to original article from Common Dreams. Coastal Maine residents are pushing to formally prohibit tar sands from being shipped from their port by Sarah Lazare, staff writer Standing ovation for the South Portland Draft Ordinance Committee as it unveils plan to block tar sands Wednesday, June 25. (Photo: Environment Maine) Residents of a small city in coastal Maine are pushing to formally ban Big Oil’s plans to pump tar sands through their community, and […] Continue reading In Stand Against Big Oil, Small Maine City Moves to Ban Tar Sands BY KATIE VALENTINE ON MARCH 20, 2014 ClimateProgress After countless marches, arrests, Congressional votes, and editorials, the five-and-a-half year battle over the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is nearing its end. If a recent ruling in Nebraska doesn’t delay the decision further, America could find out as soon as this spring whether or not the pipeline, which has become a focal point in America’s environmental movement, will be built. But while critics and proponents of Keystone […] Continue reading While America Spars Over Keystone XL, A Vast Network of Pipelines is Quietly Being Approved Feb 04, 2014 10:29 PM ET Amber Hildebrandt, CBC News A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline. On July 20, 2009, the Peace River Mainline in northern Alberta exploded, sending 50-metre-tall flames into the air and razing a two-hectare wooded area. Members of Dene Tha’ First Nations community of Chateh, about 50 kilometres away from the site of the […] Continue reading Pipeline rupture report raises questions about TransCanada inspections Many Mainers may not have heard of Enbridge, But they will. Enbridge is a gigantic energy company with it’s sights on Maine. Enbriidge wants to move oil to Casco Bay via the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line. The prospect of crude oil being piped to Portland has mobilized citizens in Maine and beyond to protest.
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Proposed project would bring crude to refineries in Quebec, Saint John CBC News | Apr 2, 2013 9:28 AM ET TransCanada Corp. is seeking firm financial commitments from companies seeking to ship crude oil from Western Canada to refineries in Eastern Canada. The Calgary-based company announced on Tuesday morning a bidding process that will allow interested producers to make binding commitments for space on the pipeline. Companies will have from April 15 […] Continue reading TransCanada pitches west-east pipeline By Nok-Noi Ricker and Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff | March 07, 2013 MATTAWAMKEAG, Maine — Emergency workers will be handling crude oil a few yards from the Penobscot River overnight Thursday after 13 full 31,000-gallon train tanker cars derailed and tipped over, spilling just 3 gallons, officials said. The Pan Am Railways tanker cars, which were among 15 that derailed on the 96-car train, went off the tracks near Route […] Continue reading Workers removing oil from cars after train derails near Penobscot River |
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