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The oil industry is hoping to shift the geopolitical center of global oil production to Canada’s boreal forests, home of vast deposits of oil sands, also called tar sands. Environmentalists and First Nations contend it’s a dirty, carbon- and water-intensive business, while proponents of development tout energy security benefits. We’re covering the battle here.
Landowners say pipeline siting law violates the Constitution. State says suit should be thrown out because landowners have no right to make the challenge.
Nebraska landowners who helped doom TransCanada's plan to build its Keystone XL pipeline through...
Sep 27, 2012
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Recent action by Koch Oil Sands pulls the curtain back further on the Koch family's deep but quiet involvement in Canada's oil sands industry.
A Canadian division of Koch Industries is reviewing a range of offers to buy up to 220,000 net...
Sep 20, 2012
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InsideClimate News analysis of a decade of federal data shows general public detected far more spills than leak detection technology.
For years, TransCanada, the Canadian company that wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline, has...
Sep 19, 2012
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Important case concerns mining permit for 6,000 acres of state-owned land in Utah, which has 232,065 acres of land open for oil sands mining.
The debate over whether oil sands mining should be allowed in Utah inched forward this week when an...
Sep 13, 2012
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A 2010 oil pipeline spill contaminated Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. Now the line is being replaced, raising the ire of landowners along the route.
The notice that arrived at Debbie and David Hense's home last September didn't seem especially...
Sep 12, 2012
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It depends on how energy preferences change, price pressures, and the degree to which the nation becomes a gateway to global markets, experts say.
The Obama administration's latest efficiency standards for new cars and trucks are expected to...
Sep 11, 2012
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Two environmental organizations say they will continue fighting first large project in the U.S.
(This story has been updated to add comments by Walt Baker, director of the Utah Division of...
Aug 29, 2012
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'We need a transparent and informed discussion about dilbit's risks and benefits, up-to-date laws and regulations, and improved leak detection.'
This article was first published today as an op-ed in The New York Times.
Every day more than...
Aug 21, 2012
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Bitumen weeping zebra stripes from a rock turned over in a test pit on the nearly 6,000 acres of land that U.S. Oil Sands leases in eastern Utah. On Oct. 24, Utah officials gave the company the...
A Canadian company opens a test pit in Utah and could be running a sizeable mine by early 2014. But is there enough water to support the industry?
MOAB, UTAH—To the ancient Indians who roamed the Colorado Plateau in what is now eastern Utah, the...
Aug 16, 2012
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