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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

Bush Family And Its Inner Circle Play Central Role In Lawsuits Against Denton Fracking Ban

November 12, 2014 By Steve Horn 2 Comments

On November 4, Denton, Texas, became the first city in the state to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) when 59 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of the initiative. It did so in the heart of the Barnett Shale basin, where George Mitchell — the “father of fracking” — drilled the first sample wells for his company Mitchell Energy.

As promised by the oil and gas industry and by Texas Railroad Commission commissioner David Porter, the vote was met with immediate legal backlash. Both the Texas General Land Office and the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) filed lawsuits in Texas courts within roughly 12 hours of the vote taking place, the latest actions in the aggressive months-long campaign by the industry and the Texas state government to fend off the ban.

The Land Office and TXOGA lawsuits, besides making similar legal arguments about state law preempting local law under the Texas Constitution, share something else in common: ties to former President George W. Bush and the Bush family at large.

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