Environmental Threats – Pipelines

Taxpayer Boondoggle Continues.

January 21, 2024 Water Quantity Threats - Water Transfers (under WMDs), Environmental Threats - Development, Environmental Threats - Pipelines Leave a Comment

This huge waste of taxpayer money continues on and on. Water levels in some Keystone lakes fell when the JAE began drawing out huge amounts of water from the aquifer. This resulted in a […]

FERC And Washington Rubber-Stamp Pipeline Expansion Request

October 23, 2023 Federal Government Threats, Miscellaneous, Environmental Threats - Fossil Fuels, Environmental Threats - Pipelines Leave a Comment

“According to FERC’s own analysis, the expanded pipeline will cause $8.8 billion in damages, and contribute 1.9 million metric tons of carbon per year in pollution…” FERC is up to its old tricks of rubber-stamping […]

Is This How Our DEP Protects Our Waters?

July 30, 2022 State Government Threats, County Government Threats, Environmental Threats - Pipelines Leave a Comment

Our DEP should be disbanded, all the personnel released and the agency start over from scratch. This situation at Piney Point could have been avoided if our DEP had simply done its job years ago. […]

New Natural Gas Pipeline Planned

November 22, 2021 Environmental Threats, Environmental Threats - Pipelines Leave a Comment

Pipelines for fossil fuels are never good, even when laid alongside old ones. With new and larger lines come new risks of accidents and in this case, environment destruction of trees and land grabs by […]

Promote water conservation before building pricey pipelines

November 2, 2021 Environmental Threats, Water Quantity Threats - Water Transfers (under WMDs), State Government Threats, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Environmental Threats - Pipelines Leave a Comment

Most water advocates and independent scientists agree that water transfers are generally not a good idea, and almost always have negative consequences somewhere. We have posted multiple times about the Black Creek project. The obvious […]

Catastrophic’ California Oil Spill Kills Fish, Damages Wetlands

October 5, 2021 Miscellaneous, Environmental Threats - Fossil Fuels, Environmental Threats - Pipelines Leave a Comment

As our readers know, where there are mines there are accidents and where there are pipelines there are spills. Read the original article with all photographs here at Reuters. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. […]

Biden Order Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline–

January 24, 2021 Environmental Threats - Climate Change, Federal Government Solutions, SOLUTIONS, Environmental Threats - Fossil Fuels, Environmental Threats - Pipelines 1 Comment

Happily our new administration saw the dangers of the XL Keystone pipeline and acted quickly to kill it. Jobs and money can be replaced but our unpolluted resources can not. The article below mentions only […]

Trans Mountain Pipeline’s Lead Insurer Zurich Drops Coverage

July 28, 2020 Films & Videos, Environmental Threats - Pipelines Leave a Comment

Pounding in another nail in the coffin of fossil fuels, this proposed pipeline has hit the obstacle of being dropped by its insurer, good news for renewable energy. Last fall, insurance companies began dropping […]

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