oil

Time to Choose not to Spill or Explode

Candidates, Voters: Time to choose your energy future It was all about the future of energy at an event at the Center for American Progress here in DC Friday morning when CAP released their … Read more

Enbridge Threatens Freshwater Drinking Source for Millions of People

Today NWF released a report warning of a pipeline hazard beneath the Straits of Mackinac. Submerged in the waters where Lakes Michigan and Huron meet, more than 20 million gallons of … Read more

Original Keystone Pipeline Shuts Down, Safety a Concern

Today, TransCanada, the energy giant proposing to build the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline announced it is shutting the original Keystone pipeline it operates. They say the line will … Read more

Exxon’s Stealth Moves to Run Tar Sands into New England

We’ve written before about Big Oil’s new playbook on tar sands: using stealth tactics to make it harder for the public to figure out what dangerous projects they have in mind and … Read more

Keystone and the Cops: Grandma Arrested Defending her Land from Pipeline

The streets of east Texas are safer now that great grandmother Eleanor Fairchild is in the clink.  The charge: trespassing on her own land. Ms. Fairchild was trying to stop destruction of … Read more

Enbridge Earns Rare Slap From Regulators

On Thursday, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a rarely used corrective action order (CAO) to Enbridge, owner of the Lakehead pipeline system. This order is in … Read more

Tar Sands in New England Clears Another Hurdle

Late last week, the Canadian National Energy Board approved a major step in a thinly-veiled effort to bring tar sands through New England for export out of South Portland, Maine. The … Read more

Enbridge Spills Again. Is it Tar Sands?

  Enbridge, the company that spilled a million gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River two years ago this week, and that the National Transportation Safety Board likened to the … Read more

Oil Spill at Michigan’s Capital

A human oil spill, that is! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsqdsubwEeQ&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] On July 18th, community members from across Michigan participated in the Lansing, Mich., We are the Kalamazoo Human Oil Spill event to memorialize … Read more

Weekly News Roundup – July 13, 2012

Want to know what National Wildlife Federation was up to this week? Here is a recap of the week’s NWF news: House Agriculture Committee Passes Farm Bill that Will Lead … Read more