Court of Quebec ruling could hinder plans to reverse the flow of a pipeline to carry oil sands from Montreal to Maine, environmentalists say. By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News Inside Climate News news story WASHINGTONâA little-publicized Canadian court decision has thrown a monkey wrench into an on-again, off-again proposal to transport oil from tar sands Read More
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Daffodils, Tornadoes, and Global Warming
I’ve been traveling lately. I recently vacationed on the Florida Keys where it was so unseasonably hot one day in late February that locals remarked how odd it was. And I just returned from a meeting in Washington, D.C., where daffodils were already in bloom and the annual Cherry Blossom Festival has been moved up Read More
Pipeline a Distraction from Development of Energy Alternatives
by Ben Bragdon KeepMEcurrent.com editorial Energy independence is so plainly necessary for the United States that it is hard to see why anyone short of a Saudi prince would be against it. It is such a popular notion, in fact, that it is used as a political justification for a number of bad ideas. Think Read More
Pipeline Debate Erupts
By John Balentine KeepMEcurrent.com news story PORTLAND â As a proposal to build an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast has emerged as a contentious issue on the national political scene, a similar debate has started locally, regarding an existing pipeline that runs from the tank farms in South Portland through Westbrook and Read More
Groups Speaking Out Against Proposed Canada-Maine Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
by The Associated Press Bangor Daily News news story PORTLAND, Maine â Several Maine environmental groups are speaking out against a pipeline that would carry Canadian oil across the continental United States. The Natural Resources Council of Maine, Sierra Club Maine, Natural Resources Defense Council and National Wildlife Federation are holding public events Thursday to Read More
Conservation Advocates Voice Fears about Oil Pipeline
The prospect of transporting ‘tar sands’s crude to Portland from Canada draws more than 200 to a forum at USM. By Dennis Hoey, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story PORTLAND – A pipeline accident that allows oil to get into Sebago Lake could contaminate the water supply for thousands of southern Maine residents, a Read More
Maine Environmentalists Warn of Tar Sands Pipeline
Several enviornmental groups say Maine could be affected by a proposal to move tar-sands-derived oil east from Ontario. MPBN news story Environmentalists are warning Mainers to pay attention to Canada’s desire to export more oil derived from tar sands. While President Barack Obama has blocked, for now, a proposed pipeline across the central U-S, a Read More
Will the Next Keystone Fight Happen in New England?
by Dierdre Fulton Portland Phoenix news story We may have narrowly avoided Keystone XL (for now), but local environmental activists say that Maine and New England are not safe from “the dirtiest oil on earth,” with a huge Canadian oil company seeking other routes to pump crude oil out of Alberta. The Sierra Club and Read More
Possible Tar Sands Pipeline to Portland Worries Environmental Groups
By Matthew Arco The Portland Daily Sun Environmental groups fearing that talks to pump “incredibly destructive” crude oil from Canada to Greater Portland are once again resurfacing, are opposing the project even before one is officially put in writing. The Natural Resources Council of Maine is planning to join three other environmental groups in Portland Read More
