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Battles over oil pipelines on 3 fronts in Minnesota

2015-06-03 00:12:38| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

" Battles over climate change and oil pipelines come to a head on three fronts in Minnesota this week. Environmental groups have high hopes for a "Tar Sands Resistance March" to the State Capitol on Saturday with the aim of keeping Canadian crude in the ground instead of piping it across the state via an expanded Alberta Clipper pipeline.

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Letter: Let frackers fight their own battles, Utah

2015-05-31 04:14:11| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Why is Gov. Gary Herbert forcing Utah taxpayers to pay for a lawsuit that will allow Utah's oil and gas industry to refuse to follow certain federal regulations , which will diminish protections for the very individuals who must foot the legal bill? The oil and gas companies should be required to tell us what chemicals and carcinogens they're forcing into our ground. Why are the interests of the oil and gas industry being promoted by Utah government over our safety and health? If the oil and gas industry wants to fight the regulations, it should file and pay for the lawsuit itself.

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Keystone Pipeline Wins Two Legal Battles in South Dakota

2015-05-29 14:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Rapid City Journal: he developers of the Keystone XL pipeline on Tuesday won two legal battles before the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission. As a result, a tribal environmental group has lost its bid to present testimony on climate change at a pipeline-permit hearing this summer, and TransCanada, the pipeline developer, will not face severe penalties requested by pipeline opponents. The Intertribal COUP organization planned to offer three scientists to testify about tar-sands development and climate change....

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