While the Keystone XL pipeline and coal export proposals such as the Gateway Pacific Terminal in Whatcom County are getting a lot of attention, crude oil pipeline/export proposals are becoming a focus of greater concern partly because of the potential increase in tanker traffic just north of the border.
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A massive new environmental study strengthens the case for building the Keystone XL oil pipeline. That’s good news for the Pacific Northwest.
President Barack Obama is facing a critical opportunity to take the country beyond its century-and-a-half reliance on oil. Earth Day (today) and this past weekend’s third anniversary of the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster offer stark reminders of the stakes and mistakes inherent in crude.
Federal pipeline regulators have proposed $1.7 million in penalties against Exxon Mobil Corp. for a pipeline rupture that spewed crude oil into Montana’s Yellowstone River.
A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead," Canada's prime minister said Thursday, and he warned that the oil will be transported through America one way or another.
South Sudan's military spokesman says a rebel force has overrun part of a town in the country's east near the border with Ethiopia.
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