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As Senate Approves KeystoneXL, Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Gets Another Permit

January 30, 2015 By Steve Horn Leave a Comment

On January 16, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave Enbridge a controversial Nationwide Permit 12 green-light for its proposed Line 78 pipeline, set to bring heavy tar sands diluted bitumen (“dilbit”) from Pontiac, Illinois to its Griffith, Indiana holding terminal.

The permit for the pipeline with the capacity to carry 800,000 barrels-per-day of tar sands dilbit came ten days after the introduction of S.1 — the Keystone XL Pipeline Act — recently approved by the U.S. Senate, which calls for the permitting of the northern leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL.

Filed Under: Environment, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alberta, Army Corps of Engineers, BP Whiting Refinery, british petroleum, Canada, Center for Biological Diversity, Chicago, Chicagoland, Department of State, dilbit, Dilbit Disaster, diluted bitumen, Enbridge, Enbridge Line 61, Enbridge Line 6B, Enbridge Line 78, energy east, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Heavy Crude, Heavy Oil, Illinois, Indiana, Judge Michael J. Davis, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Keystone XL Clone, Keystone XL Pipeline Act, KXL, Line 61, Line 6B, National Environmental Policy Act, National Wildlife Federation, Nationwide 12 Permit, NEPA, NWF, NWP 12 Permit, oil sands, Robert Kratsch, S.1. 2015, Sierra Club, State Department.State Dept..U.S. State Dept..United States State Dept., Tar sands, TransCanada, TransCanada Energy East, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Dept. of State, U.S. State Department, United States, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Dept. of State, United States State Department, Whiting Indiana

State Department Keystone XL Contractor ERM Bribed Chinese Agency To Permit Project

January 5, 2015 By Steve Horn Leave a Comment

Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected byTransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL’s northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no stranger to scandal.

Exhibit A: ERM once bribed a Chinese official to ram through major pieces of an industrial development project. ERM was tasked to push through the project in Hangzhou Bay, located near Shanghai.

Accepting the bribe landed Yan Shunjun, former deputy head of the Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, an 11-year prison sentence. Yan “allegedly took bribes of 864,000 yuan (126,501 U.S. dollars), 20,000 U.S. dollars and 4,000 euros from seven contractors,” explained Xiuhuanet. “Yan was also accused of illegally setting up a channel to speed up environmental impact assessment processes, which are essential for companies wanting to build factories.”

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alaska, Alberta canada, Alberta Tar Sands, bitumen, Bloomberg Businessweek, carbon web, Central Asia, China, communism, Copenhagen, Denmark, dilbit, diluted bitumen, Doug Hayes Sierra Club, environmental resources management, ERM Group, Hangzhou Bay, Heavy Oil, Hopenhagen, Keystone Pipeline System, Keystone XL, Keystone XL North, Keystone XL Northern Leg, Keystone XL South, KXL, KXL North, KXL South, London, oil sands, People's Daily, People's Daily Communist Party, Peru, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Sierra Club, Sierra Club Doug Hayes, Sinopecerm, Sunday Times, Tar sands, TransCanada, U.N., unconventional oil, United Nations, Xiuhuanet, Yan Shunjunbp

Gulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export? Follow the Oiltanking Trail

November 21, 2014 By Steve Horn 1 Comment

The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, but incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) already promised it will get another vote when the GOP-dominated Senate begins its new session in 2015.

Though the bill failed, one of the key narratives that arose during the congressional debate was the topic of whether or not the tar sands product that may flow through it will ultimately be exported to the global market. President Barack Obama, when queried by the press about the latest Keystone congressional action, suggested tar sands exports are the KXL line’s raison d’etre.

Obama’s comments struck a nerve. Bill sponsor U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and supporter U.S. Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) both stood on the Senate floor and said KeystoneXL is not an export pipeline in the minutes leading up to the bill’s failure. But a DeSmog probe into a recent merger of two major oil and gas industry logistics and marketing companies, Oiltanking Partners and Enterprise Products Partners, has demonstrated key pieces of the puzzle are already being put together by Big Oil to make tar sands exports a reality.

Filed Under: Environment, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alberta Clipper, Barack Obama, Beaumont, butane, coal, Cushing, Democratic Party, dilbit, diluted bitumen, election 2014, Enbridge, energy, Energy Security Analysis Inc., Enterprise Products Partners, Flanagan South, Freeport, GOP, Gulf Coast, Gulf Restoration Network, House of Representatives, Houston Lateral, Houston Ship Channel, John Hoeven, KeystoneXL, KXL, liquid petroleum gas, LPG, Mary Landrieu, Mississippi River, Mitch McConnell, oil, oil and gas, Oiltanking Partners, Oklahoma, petcoke, petroleum coke, pipelines, propane, RBN Energy, Republican Party, Reuters, Sandy Fielden, Sarah Emerson, Seaway Twin, Senate, Standard & Poors, Tar sands, tarsands, Texas, The Motley Fool, Tidal Energy Marketing, TransCanada, United Bulk Terminal

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