Sunday, November 02, 2014
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Marc Eliesen Dogwood Initiative
Energy executive blasts Kinder Morgan review as “fraudulent,” quits
Eliesen is the former CEO of B.C. Hydro and the former Chair of Manitoba Hydro. A deputy minister in seven different federal and provincial governments, Eliesen has forty years’ executive experience in the energy sector, including as a board member at Suncor.
Here is the full text of his letter to the secretary of the NEB:
Dear Ms. Young:
The Intervenor, Marc Eliesen, wishes to withdraw from the National Energy Board hearing on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP).
I applied as an intervenor with expertise to offer the Board in good faith that my time and personally incurred costs would be well spent in evaluating Trans Mountain’s proposal, questioning the Proponent, preparing evidence commensurate with my expertise, answering questions on that evidence, and providing final argument. Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion that the Board, through its decisions, is engaged in a public deception. Continued involvement with this process is a waste of time and effort, and represents a disservice to the public interest because it endorses a fraudulent process..... read more here
The Steyer story: Election coverage gone bad
By Peter Dykstra The Daily Climate 11/03/14
....This year, Tom Steyer has been portrayed as an "oligarch," or a "billionaire environmentalist," whose electoral philanthropy is a "crusade."As billionaires go, he's barely scraping by. He has a billion in the bank, give or take. He hovers somewhere around 1,150th on the Forbes list of the world's richest people. He'd need to roughly triple his wealth to make the vaunted Forbes 400.
Lazy journalism
So No. 1,150 ends up paired with the Koch Brothers (tied for fourth on the Forbes list) in stories that suggest that Big Oil and Big Recycling have reached political parity. This is lazy journalism, and a disservice that invites delusion on the environmental side..... read more here
At least 1,250 square miles of ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico is coated with oil: VICE News
| Billings Gazette | - |
.... [Ron Schalow] has assembled a loose network of people concerned about the crude oil stabilization issue....
| Hutchinson News | - |
The
Illinois-based, family-owned scrap metal and recycling company plans to
build a $35 million plant on 100 acres in the Kansas Enterprise
Industrial Park to refurbish rail cars. The focus will be tank cars designed to carry crude oil and other ...
Our opinion: Global Partners has rid itself of the weakest crude
oil rail tanker cars. But crude transportation overall isn’t yet
anywhere close to being safe.
As promised, Global Partners has weeded out any of the weaker freight rail cars that have been involved in the most significant crude oil accidents since the Lac-Megantic, Quebec, disaster in July 2013, which took 47 lives and flattened a town.
The reasons this has import are many, but this may be the most notable: An entity in the oil and rail industries involved in crude oil transportation has said it would take steps to make that process safer, identified a timeline within which to accomplish that goal and made it happen.....
As promised, Global Partners has weeded out any of the weaker freight rail cars that have been involved in the most significant crude oil accidents since the Lac-Megantic, Quebec, disaster in July 2013, which took 47 lives and flattened a town.
The reasons this has import are many, but this may be the most notable: An entity in the oil and rail industries involved in crude oil transportation has said it would take steps to make that process safer, identified a timeline within which to accomplish that goal and made it happen.....
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