On the Blogs: Trump Runs Risk of Suffering LBJ-Like ‘Credibility Gap’ on...
John H. Cushman Jr. for InsideClimate News: Judging by the brief discussion of energy policy on Donald Trump’s White House transition website, what he’d like to change about the Obama approach is...
View ArticleTrump’s Easier-to-Keep Promises Include Letting Keystone Pipeline Proceed;...
Binyamin Appelbaum and Robert Pear for the New York Times: President-elect Donald J. Trump made many sweeping promises on his way to victory on Election Day. After he takes the oath of office on Jan....
View ArticleThe Risk in Pipeline-Project Bluster
Robinson Meyer for The Atlantic: While it may be easier to restart Keystone XL legally, none of that project is built, and there’s no guarantee that it ever will be. The Dakota Access pipeline,...
View ArticleOwner of Dakota Access Pipeline ‘Goes Silent’ in Hopes of Averting Further...
Tim Loh for Bloomberg News: Energy Transfer Partners LP got a boost on Tuesday when President Donald Trump threw his weight behind its controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline. While rival TransCanada...
View ArticleIEEFA Op-Ed: Investors Should Steer Clear of the Keystone Pipeline
The oil industry is in trouble, beset by bankruptcies of junior companies, write-downs by major producers, and canceled or drastically delayed projects across the board. The last thing it needs is the...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: Oil and Construction Aren’t the Only Job Sectors
Chip Colwell for TheConversation.com: On his fourth day as U.S. president, Donald Trump penned executive orders to advance construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline Project pipeline and the Keystone...
View Article‘Do We Need All These Pipelines? No’
Lynda V. Mapes and Hal Bernton for the Seattle Times: Trump’s embrace of pipelines is welcomed by the oil industry, particularly in Canada, where producers have been buffeted by weak markets, low...
View ArticleU.S. Pipeline Companies ‘Struggle to Contend’ With Populist Uprising
Christopher N. Mathews for the Wall Street Journal: Pipeline companies are bracing for a new round of volatile protests by environmentalists and other activists in the U.S., a sobering reality that is...
View ArticleDakota Access Pipeline Opponents Press Their Case in Courts
James MacPherson and Blake Nicholson for the Associated Press: The Cheyenne River Sioux on Thursday asked a federal judge to stop the work while a lawsuit filed earlier by the tribes proceeds. Attorney...
View ArticleNow That It’s Been ‘Approved,’ When Might the Keystone Pipeline Be Built?...
The Hill: Friday’s approval of a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline is just the opening act of a renewed fight to get the project built. With regulatory approval still pending in Nebraska and greens...
View ArticleDakota Access Campaign Seen as a Model for Pipeline Resistance Nationally
Associated Press: The tactics used in North Dakota – resistance camps, prominent use of social media, online fundraising – are now being used against several projects. They include the Sabal Trail...
View ArticleBNP Paribas, Joining ING and DNB, Is Third Bank to Bail on Dakota Access...
TelesurTV: BNP Paribas announced Wednesday that it had sold its US$120 million share in the joint US$2.5-billion Dakota Access Pipeline loan, becoming the third bank of the 17 involved to cut ties to...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: Pipeline Opponents Find Common Cause in Property Rights
Ozy.com: Property rights, rather than environmental ones, are increasingly forming the brunt of arguments against pipelines — and not just in Georgia and South Carolina, which have recently passed laws...
View ArticleKeystone Exec See Less Demand for Long-Delayed Project
SNL: Even with the presidential permit he worked almost eight years to secure in hand, TransCanada Corp. CEO Russ Girling said his company’s Keystone XL pipeline still has to clear a number of hurdles...
View ArticleFor U.S. Pipeline Companies, Finance Risk in Public Opposition
Associated Press: Opposition to the Dakota Access oil pipeline has persuaded some banks to stop supporting projects that might harm the environment or tread on indigenous rights, but calling the divest...
View ArticleKeystone Backers ‘Reassess’ Market for Pipeline
Associated Press: TransCanada Corp. is reassessing whether oil producers in North Dakota and Montana are still interested in shipping crude through its long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline. The...
View ArticleOil Producers Aren’t Interested in Keystone XL Anymore
Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires: Keystone XL is facing a new challenge: The oil producers and refiners the pipeline was originally meant to serve aren’t interested in it anymore. Delayed for...
View ArticleEditorial: ‘Keystone XL Pipeline Runs Afoul of the Law of Supply and Demand’
Editorial Board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The company that is building the controversial Keystone XL pipeline no doubt wishes Energy Secretary Rick Perry had been right last week when he...
View ArticleEconomics May Kill Long-Delayed Keystone XL Pipeline
Associated Press: The proposed Keystone XL pipeline survived nine years of protests, lawsuits and political wrangling that saw the Obama administration reject it and President Donald Trump revive it,...
View ArticleIEEFA Update: Something in the Wind
It’s de rigueur anymore for energy companies across the board to play up their clean-energy commitments—actual or just advertised—but executives at American Electric Power put some of their money where...
View ArticleKeystone XL Completion Still 3 Years Out, if Completion Is in the Cards
InsideClimate News: It will be close to three years, at least, before oil could possibly be moving through the controversial Keystone XL pipeline—if the pipeline is completed at all. Company officials...
View Article‘No Economic Rationale’ in Keystone Go-Ahead
Los Angeles Times: Following years of political controversy that demanded the attention of two presidents, the Nebraska Public Service Commission on Monday declared that the proposed Keystone XL...
View ArticleHurdles Remain for Keystone XL
SNL: TransCanada Corp. finally secured the last major permit for its Keystone XL pipeline after a battle that lasted most of a decade, but it is an open question whether the company will build it after...
View ArticleIEEFA Op-Ed: Keystone XL Is Still a Stinker
Despite project approval this week by a Nebraska commission, TransCanada faces steep market hurdles in its proposed buildout of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Keystone is the final phase of an oil transport...
View ArticleEconomics May Yet Kill the Keystone XL
The Economist: In the nine years since Keystone XL was first proposed it has become the most political of pipelines, pitting environmentalists, ranchers and Native Americans against oil companies,...
View ArticleWorld Bank to Discontinue Support for Oil and Gas Projects
National Observer (Canada): The World Bank has confirmed that it will stop financing upstream oil and gas projects after 2019 except under exceptional circumstances in the world’s poorest countries....
View ArticlePipelines Say They See Benefits in Expanding Existing Assets
Some of North America’s biggest new pipeline projects are already in the ground. As environmentalists and local activists make it extraordinarily difficult to build new oil and gas lines, energy...
View ArticleFederal judge orders updated environmental review for Keystone XL
Omaha World-Record: A federal court in Montana has ruled that TransCanada must conduct an additional environmental review before it moves forward with the alternative route that has been approved for...
View ArticleSioux tribe sues U.S. over Keystone XL approval
Casper Star-Tribune: Native American tribes in Montana and South Dakota sued the Trump administration on Monday, claiming it approved an oil pipeline from Canada without considering potential damage to...
View ArticleKeystone XL pipeline fight heads to Nebraska Supreme Court
Omaha World-Herald: Attorneys for opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and TransCanada will square off Thursday morning before the Nebraska Supreme Court in a lawsuit that could erect a new roadblock...
View ArticleFederal judge halts Keystone XL construction pending new environmental analysis
CNBC: A federal judge in Montana halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Thursday on the grounds that the U.S. government did not complete a full analysis of the environmental impact of...
View ArticleIEEFA U.S.: ExxonMobil goes back large into risky Canadian oil sands
ExxonMobil’s (“XOM”) Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil has announced its intention to invest C$2.6 billion[1] in the Aspen mines, an oil sands project in Alberta, Canada. This is big news. In February...
View ArticleU.S. State Department to conduct new review of Keystone pipeline
Reuters: The U.S. State Department will conduct another environmental review of TransCanada Corp’s long-pending Keystone XL oil pipeline, a U.S. official said on Friday, a move that could lead to...
View ArticleOpponents return to court to block latest Trump administration move on...
Associated Press: Opponents of the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline asked a federal court Friday in a lawsuit to declare President Donald Trump acted illegally when he issued a new permit for the...
View ArticleForeign investors selling their stakes in Canada’s oil industry
Bloomberg: Capital keeps marching out of Canada’s oil industry, with Kinder Morgan Inc.’s sale of its remaining holdings in the country on Wednesday adding to more than $30 billion of foreign-company...
View ArticleCancellation of Constitution pipeline a troubling sign for other projects,...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The cancellation of a proposed natural gas pipeline into New York may be a sign of challenges ahead for other projects, both at the grassroots level and in...
View ArticleControversial Keystone XL pipeline project still faces serious economic...
Omaha World-Herald: The Keystone XL pipeline has faced bureaucratic hurdles, court challenges and the determined opposition of environmental groups. But the biggest challenge to the project at this...
View ArticleAnother delay for Keystone XL pipeline project
The Guardian: The controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has been dealt a major setback, after a judge revoked a key permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers without properly assessing...
View ArticleCourt decision likely to prompt additional delays for Atlantic Coast,...
Reuters: The two biggest U.S. natural gas pipelines under construction are likely facing more delays after an appeals court ruling against the Army Corps of Engineers, energy analysts said. The Trump...
View ArticleGas pipeline setbacks pushing U.S. utilities to embrace renewables, analysts say
Greentech Media: Legal challenges halted several major pipeline projects across the U.S. in recent days, underscoring a seismic shift facing the U.S. utility industry: the rise of renewables as a...
View ArticleIEEFA update: Three major pipeline projects are scrapped in short order
Difficult and complex decisions are being made to reject the buildout of oil and gas pipelines in the United States and Canada. Long-term debates have finally come to a head, and three major pipeline...
View ArticleAtlantic Coast, Keystone XL, Dakota Access — for pipeline companies, winning...
If you are a pipeline developer, landmark court victories just aren’t what they used to be. Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced on Sunday that they are canceling their proposed Atlantic Coast...
View ArticleIEEFA Energy Finance Conference 2020 roundup: Local leadership, global change
The transition to renewable energy is frequently advocated on environmental grounds, but the financial case for moving away from fossil fuels is becoming undeniably clear, according to experts speaking...
View ArticleIEEFA U.S.: Investors in gas-fired projects in largest regional power system...
October 5, 2020 (IEEFA) — The landscape for developers of natural gas-fired power plants in the nation’s largest regional power system has shifted dramatically over the last decade, according to a...
View ArticleBiden revokes permit for Keystone XL pipeline, likely killing project
NPR: As part of his ambitious plan to address climate change, President Biden is revoking a key cross-border presidential permit needed to finish the controversial Keystone XL pipeline This likely...
View ArticleTC Energy finally pulls plug on Keystone XL oil pipeline
Wall Street Journal ($): Canada’s TC Energy Corp and the Albertan provincial government said Wednesday they would scuttle the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, bringing to an end a years-long...
View ArticleIEEFA: Keystone XL project became another pipeline to nowhere
As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reviews the public comments it recently received on its proposal to reconsider how it determines whether a gas pipeline should be granted a...
View ArticlePlains All American, Valero scrap Tennessee-to-Mississippi Byhalia pipeline
Memphis Commercial Appeal: The company planning to build the Byhalia Connection pipeline on Friday announced that it is abandoning the project, bringing a sudden end to one of the biggest environmental...
View ArticleKeystone XL developer plans switch to renewables to operate pipelines
Reuters: Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy Corp (TRP.TO) could spend billions of dollars on its plans to lower emissions by switching to renewable energy to run its huge network of U.S. and Canadian...
View ArticleBiden White House faces major test with Arctic drilling project
Inside Climate News: The Biden administration is facing a major test for its climate agenda in the Alaskan Arctic, where an oil company is proposing a 30-year development that would pump more than...
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