Oil Sands targeted in latest Sierra Club video
The environmentalist group takes aim at pipeline proposals to carry Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast in a video titled, “The Tar Sands Pipelines: The Dirtiest Oil on Earth.” More »
Report: U.S. oil boom challenging Canadian exports
Canada’s oil sands are facing growing competition from U.S. crude, which has constrained pipelines and cut prices for Canadian crude, according to a report by Wood Mackenzie. More »
Keystone plan avoids wetlands on Texas coast
An Army Corps of Engineers official said TransCanada submitted a new permit application. More »
TransCanada talks jobs, supplies at Beaumont workshop
A crude oil pipeline that will run 485 miles from Cushing, Okla., to Southeast Texas should be under construction by late summer and operational in late 2013. More »
How the Keystone XL could bring higher gas prices to Texas
The Keystone XL pipeline might be a good thing for job creation and crude oil supply, but it might not have the same positive effect on gasoline prices. More »
Court denies request to rethink pipeline ruling
A state appeals court has refused to reconsider a decision that lets Calgary-based TransCanada avoid paying nearly $19 million in property taxes for 2011. More »
Kansas agencies wrangle over $19M pipeline taxes
The Kansas Department of Revenue believes a state law allowing oil company TransCanada to avoid paying nearly $19 million in property taxes has been misinterpreted, but the company said Thursday that it is simply following tax rules approved years ago by the state and noted its large investments in Kansas. More »
Keystone pipeline divide shows U.S. highway deal elusive
Congressional negotiators clashed over TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL oil pipeline, underscoring the U.S. political challenge in reaching a multiyear surface transportation plan for the first time since 2005. More »
Hispanic group: Latinos back Keystone XL pipeline
Supporters of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline are now billing it as a top political issue for Hispanic voters — the latest bid to spur the administration’s approval of the project. More »
Buffett backs TransCanada’s proposed oil pipeline
Billionaire Warren Buffett supports building the Keystone XL pipeline that TransCanada wants to build to carry Canadian oil south across the Great Plains to connect to Gulf Coast refineries. More »
New Keystone bid gives GOP political ’ammunition’
TransCanada Corp. (TRP) has reapplied to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, inserting a project that is strongly opposed by environmental groups into the November U.S. presidential election. More »
Mack attack ad blasts Nelson, Obama pipeline call
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV blasted U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in a radio campaign ad Tuesday for going along with President Obama’s decision opposing the Keystone XL pipeline project that would carry oil through the nation’s midsection. More »
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