"North Dakota Pipeline Spill Raises Questions Amid State's Oil Boom"
"Tesoro Logistics and North Dakota didn't quickly tell the public about an oil pipeline spill, and the firm doesn't know when it started."
Source: LA Times, 10/24/2013
Energy & Fuel
"Russia Reduces Piracy Charges vs. Greenpeace Activists To Hooliganism"
"MOSCOW -- Russia's main investigative agency said Wednesday that it has dropped piracy charges against jailed Greenpeace activists and charged them instead with hooliganism, which means the detainees could still spend years in prison."
Source: AP, 10/24/2013
Dams and Levees: Introduction
This special issue of the WatchDog focuses on the transparency of safety information related to dams, levees, impoundments, and related water-control structures. For environmental journalists, these subjects offer a goldmine of great story possibilities. These are stories that have not been covered much in the past decade, and stories that fit well at the local, state, or regional level.
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"Koch Brother Wages 12-Year Fight Over Wind Farm"
"OSTERVILLE, Mass. — If the vast wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound is ever built, William I. Koch will have a spectacular view of it."
Source: NY Times, 10/23/2013
"The Grassroots Battle Against Big Oil"
"Activists in Texas are connecting the fight against the Keystone pipeline with the struggle for environmental justice."
Source: The Nation, 10/23/2013
Regulators Spend More Time With Industry Than Pipeline Spills: Watchdog
"WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Department office charged with overseeing the 2.6 million miles of pipelines in the United States is spending more time at oil and gas industry conferences than it is addressing spills and other incidents, a watchdog group contends in a new report."
Source: Huffington Post, 10/23/2013
"In Canada's Alberta Province, Oil Sands Boom Is a Two-Edged Sword"
"FORT CHIPEWYAN, Canada -- In the Cree language, the word 'athabasca' means 'a place where grass is everywhere.' Here in Alberta, the Athabasca River slices through forests of spruce and birch before spilling into a vast freshwater delta and Lake Athabasca."
Source: LA Times, 10/22/2013
"Tesoro Says No Date Set To Restart Burst North Dakota Pipeline"
"Tesoro Logistics LP said on Monday it still did not have a date to restart a North Dakota oil pipeline that ruptured in September and spilled 20,600 barrels of crude onto farmland."
Source: Reuters, 10/22/2013
"Dutch Government Asks Sea Law Tribunal To Release Activists"
"The Dutch government on Monday asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to order Russia to release 30 people detained last month during an environmental protest in the Arctic Sea."
Source: Reuters, 10/22/2013
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