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This Federal Court Order Kept Dangerous Oil Trains On The Rails

March 12, 2015 By Steve Horn Leave a Comment

A U.S. federal court has ordered a halt in proceedings until May in a case centering around oil-by-rail tankers pitting the Sierra Club and ForestEthics against the U.S.Department of Transportation (DOT). As a result, potentially explosive DOT-111 oil tank cars, dubbed “bomb trains” by activists, can continue to roll through towns and cities across the U.S. indefinitely.

“The briefing schedule previously established by the court is vacated,” wrote Chris Goelz, a mediator for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. “This appeal is stayed until May 12, 2015, or pending publication in the Federal Register of the final tank car standards and phase out of DOT-111 tank cars, whichever occurs first.”

Filed Under: Environment, National News Tagged With: Bakken Shale, Climate change, fracking, oil, oil trains

Revealed: How The Latest Defense Bill Supports Fracking On Public Land

December 16, 2014 By Steve Horn 1 Comment

The U.S. Senate has voted 89-11 to approve the Defense Authorization Act of 2015, following the December 4 U.S. House of Representatives’ 300-119 up-vote and now awaits President Barack Obama’s signature.

The 1,616-page piece of pork barrel legislation contains a provision — among other controversial measures — to streamline permitting for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on U.S. public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a unit of the U.S. Department of Interior.

Buried on page 1,156 of the bill as Section 3021 and subtitled “Bureau of Land Management Permit Processing,” the bill’s passage has won praise from both the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and comes on the heels of countries from around the world coming to a preliminary deal at the United Nations climate summit in Lima, Peru, to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

Filed Under: Environment, National News Tagged With: America's Natural Gas Alliance, American Petroleum Institute, ANGA, API, Bakken Shale, BLM, BLM Fracking Rules, BLM Hydraulic Fracturing Rules, BLM Permit Processing Improvement Act, BLM Streamlining, Buck McKeon, bureau of land management, California, Carl Levin, Department of Interior, DOI, fracking, Fracking on Public Lands, H.R. 3979, Heather Zichal, Howard McKeon, hydraulic fracturing, Independent Petroleum Association of America, IPAAS. 2440, John Hoeven, Michigan, National Defense Authorization Act of 2015, NDAA, New Mexico, S.2410, shale gas, shale oil, Sierra Club, U.S. Rep. Buck McKeon, U.S. Rep. Howard Buck McKeon, U.S. Representative Buck McKeon, U.S. Representative Howard Buck McKeon, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, U.S. Senator Carl Levin, U.S. Senator John Hoeven, unconventional gas, unconventional oil, Wyoming

Why Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant Wants High Oil Prices for Fracking

December 1, 2014 By Steve Horn 2 Comments

Outgoing Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) chairman Phil Bryant — Mississippi’s Republican Governor — started his farewell address with a college football joke at IOGCC’s recent annual conference in Columbus, Ohio. Seconds later, things got more serious, as Bryant spoke to an audience of oil and gas industry executives and lobbyists, as well as state-level regulators.

“I know it’s a mixed blessing, but if you look at some of the pumps in Mississippi, gasoline is about $2.68 and people are amazed that it’s below $3 per gallon,” he said. “And it’s a good thing for industry, it’s a good thing for truckers, it’s a good thing for those who move goods and services and products across the waters and across the lands and we’re excited about where that’s headed.”

Bryant then discussed the flip side of the “mixed blessing” coin. “Of course the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale has a little problem with that, so as with most things in life, it’s a give and take,” Bryant stated. “It’s very good at one point and it’s helping a lot of people, but on the other side there’s a part of me that goes, ‘Darn! I hate that oil’s dropping, I hate that it’s going down.’ I don’t say that out-loud, but just to those in this room.”

Filed Under: Environment, National News Tagged With: ALEC, Aubrey McClendon, Bakken Shale, bloomberg, Chesapeake Energy, Columbus, Dan Dicker, Drilling Deeper A Reality Check on U.S. Government Forecasts for a Lasting Tight Oil & Shale Gas Boom, Eagle Ford Shale, enery, Floyd Wilson, fracked gas, Fracked Oil, fracking, Fraser Institute, gasoline, Halcón Resources Corp, hydraulic fracturing, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, Jefferies LLC, MercBloc, Mississippi, Ohio, oil, oil and gas, oil prices, OPEC, Phil Bryant, Post Carbon Institute, Ralph Eads, Republican Party, Shale Bubble, State Policy Network, stink tanks, Texas, Tudor Pickering Holt & Co., Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Utah, Wall Street Journal

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