Dangerous cargo’s, including crude oil, are being transported by rail around the U.S. This last week an oil train derailed in a remote part of Eastern Montana, and while it fortunately didn’t go boom it could have done so. A few months ago another oil train derailed near Galena Illinois, and…
It appears there’s been two oil train derailments in Montana over the last couple days. Several of the rail cars tipped over, with a few in each train leaking crude oil, but fortunately no explosions this time. Maybe it means future oil train derailments won’t cause explosions and therefore the…
Alberta’s sole customer for crude oil is the U.S.A. For various reasons, Canada’s crude oil sales have plummeted, causing lots of economic hardship.
Yesterday, a BNSF trail carrying 103 crude oil cars derailed on tracks bordering the Mississippi River in a remote part of Illinois near Galena. Today there’s some further information which clears up some unknowns about the incident. It’s now known the fire was more extensive than thought yesterday, involving more…
Mike Burley, THONLINE Another week another bomb train, it seems. Last week it was West Virginia, this week Galena Illinois. This time a 105 car train, 103 of which were crude oil tankers, derailed in a remote section of Illinois just off the Mississippi River. According to a news…
A big deal is being made over approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that’s meant to carry tar sands oil from Alberta down to the Gulf Coast for refining and shipping to the global oil market. Environmental groups like 350.org are raising a stink about the project, saying that it…
I found this picture, clearly taken above the Alberta Tar Sands, posted on Google+ and the comments below it talked about GREED and how GREED is destroying the planet and RESOURCE WAR’s. I tend to agree with the sentiment, but think we all have to be honest about this picture.…
The long-awaited environmental impact statement on the Keystone XL pipeline seems to clear the way for the approval of that controversial project, according to a report by the New York Times. Why? It’s what I’ve written recently. The oil companies are intent on bringing oil from the Alberta Tar…
Even if the Keystone XL pipeline is blocked, that might not block the shipment of Alberta Tar Sands Oil to refineries. The “Carbon Bomb” that Bill McKibbon wants us to be afraid of is set of with every shipment of Tar Sands oil to a refinery, so that the oil…
Sometimes creating change means taking your own steps, to make the change yourself. A group of Nebraska farmers decided that they could block the Keystone XL pipeline simply by building a barn full of renewable energy technology right on its path. The video is full of homespun wisdom, speaking from…
It’s not often that we get a direct clear example of the externalities of oil consumption. An “externality” is when someone, say a big oil company like Exxon, makes other people pay some of the costs associated with their business. Most of the externalities related to the Oil business are…
A bunch of my friends are up in arms about the Keystone XL pipeline, and the “carbon bomb” it would be if built. Why carbon bomb? Because it is a vast store of hydrocarbon fossil fuels, and building the pipeline would facilitate extraction of those fuels. There’s another deposit of…
The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DoE) and Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) have signed an agreement, announced on Tuesday, to begin the process of expanding exploitation of Alaska’s “vast unconventional energy reserves.” This phrase refers to fossil fuels other than the typical fossil crude oil that is the source…
Today 350.org organized a series of rallies in Washington D.C. and other U.S. Cities like San Francisco to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. This project has been in the making for a long time, the Keystone XL will (if built) be responsible for carrying oil from Alberta Tar Sands to…
Here in the U.S. we effectively killed the Keystone XL project. Aren’t we proud of ourselves? We held anti-Keystone XL rallies in front of the White House and elsewhere, and got Obama to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. That should mean the end of the tar sands crude oil…
