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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

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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