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Pipeline rupture report raises questions about TransCanada inspections

2014-02-04 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CBC: A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline. On July 20, 2009, the Peace River Mainline in northern Alberta exploded, sending 50-metre-tall flames into the air and razing a two-hectare wooded area. Members of Dene Tha First Nations community of Chateh, about 50 kilometres away from the site of the blast, also want to know why the report was not released...

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TransCanada lauds U.S. review of Keystone XL project

2014-01-31 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: TransCanada Corp's chief executive welcomed a favorable U.S. environmental review of the company's Keystone XL project on Friday, calling the report an important milestone for the final approval of the controversial pipeline. The U.S. State Department issued its long-awaited Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the $5.3 billion pipeline project on Friday. It concluded that allowing the line to proceed would not raise the pace of development in Canada's oil sands, a key argument...

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