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WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Reeling from months of protests, President Barack Obama's advisers are worried that administration approval for a planned oil pipeline from Canada could cost him political support from Democrats in 2012.Senior officials at the White House and Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters have fielded complaints from supporters who are unhappy about TransCanada Corp's plan to build a massive pipeline to transport crude from Alberta to Texas, sources familiar with the situation said.The concerns could contribute to a delay in the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline just as the 2012 presidential campaign heats up.The State Department,...

Enterprise Products Partners has scored the first major customer in its milestone plan to feed Gulf Coast industry with ethane from the burgeoning Northeast shale region, the pipeline company announced Wednesday. Chesapeake Energy Corp., an Oklahoma City-based oil and natural gas drilling company, has signed a long-term contract with Enterprise to transport 75,000 barrels per day over the pipeline, which is slated to begin operation in early 2014 with a capacity of 125,000 barrels per day. Enterprise announced in October its plan to build a 1,230-mile pipeline to the Gulf Coast petrochemical hub from the Marcellus and Utica shales in...

America has been under attack since Barack Obama took the oath of office on January 20, 2009. The primary target has been the nation’s ability to generate energy for electricity and transportation, without which this nation will slide into Third World status and economic decline. » If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter Oil_Platform_1This appears to be the goal of this administration from the President to his Secretaries of Energy and Interior, to his Director of the Environmental Protection Agency. There is no other rational explanation for what they are doing. We are days away from...

The pending Keystone XL Pipeline—the pipeline that will carry Canadian crude oil to refiners in Texas and Oklahoma—is emblematic of the misinformation campaigns waged by those who inexplicably want to scuttle this project, and the tens of thousands of jobs tied to its construction. Attempting to brand the pipeline as “dangerous,” groups and politicians on the Left have done Americans a disservice by misrepresenting the project’s basic facts. The Pipeline is NOT a disaster waiting to happen Since the first well was drilled in Pennsylvania over a hundred years ago, oil pipelines have been one of the safest, most efficient...

Nearly two dozen Democrats led by U.S. Rep. Gene Green of Houston on Wednesday implored President Barack Obama to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil sands crude from Canada to southeast Texas refineries. The project would boost America’s energy security and the U.S. economy, the lawmakers said in a letter to Obama. “The proposed Keystone XL pipeline represents a true shovel-ready project that would directly create 20,000 high-quality domestic manufacturing and construction jobs for Americans who are desperately seeking employment,” the Democrats wrote. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to decide by mid-November whether the...

Ten years to the day after Enron Corp. began its rapid fall, Rich Kinder made a move that may signal his rise to new heights. On Oct. 16, 2001, Enron – from which Kinder had resigned as president five years earlier – reported a surprise third-quarter loss. The loss marked the beginning of the end for the one-time energy giant as it began its spiral to a Dec. 2, 2001, bankruptcy filing, thousands of local layoffs, the collapse of the energy trading business and years of criminal and civil litigation. On Oct. 16 a decade later, Rich Kinder’s company, Kinder...

In May, environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben — pondering a simmering energy issue — asked a NASA scientist to calculate what it would mean for the Earth’s climate if Canada extracted all of the petroleum in its rich Alberta oil sands region. The answer to McKibben’s query came a month later: It would push atmospheric carbon concentrations so high that humans would be unable to avert a climate disaster. “It is essentially game over,” wrote James E. Hansen, who heads NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and is one of the nation’s leading voices against fossil fuel energy. That...

Should the State Department approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline?

<p>As liberal protesters watched forlornly from across the street, a loud, rowdy crowd of about 300 in downtown Washington, D.C., demonstrated in favor of a major oil industry pipeline project.</p> <p>“There are those who oppose the pipeline. They say the oil is dirty,” said one of the speakers. “Let me be as kind and as gentle as I can be: F**k them!”</p>

Administration decision due on $7 billion projectA final public hearing on the proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline on Friday turned into a heated and often testy battle, filled with boos and cheers for speakers who traveled from across the country to testify. Protesters gathered outside the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center early in the morning, and then flooded into the hearing room, where a number of them pleaded with the State Department to reconsider its support for the pipeline. Supporters, which include both business and labor groups, say the project will provide needed energy from...

U.S. Sen. Mark Begich has urged the state to consider a loan guarantee that would help with financing for a major Alaska natural gas pipeline. In a letter to Gov. Sean Parnell released Tuesday, Begich said it would be very difficult for the state's congressional delegation to get an increase in the federal loan guarantee anytime soon. Begich cited the recent push in Washington to cut federal spending, as well as increased scrutiny on loan guarantees for energy projects. Federal loan guarantees for the pipeline currently stand at about $21 billion. Project costs released by TransCanada Corp. have ranged from...

TransCanada’s Keystone XL project is taking on a life form of its own as environmentalists, politicians and B-list entertainers put the heat on President Barack Obama to block the planned 500,000 barrels per day pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the Texas Gulf Coast. It’s turning into a test of wills with no precedent in more than four decades since the battle over the trans-Alaska oil pipeline system. Demonstrations against XL flared up outside the White House, with more than 500 arrests over the past month. Galvanized by an August U.S. State Department report that essentially came up empty...

NuStar Energy LP and Valero Energy Corp. have agreed that NuStar will add to its pipeline system to enable Valero to transport more crude oil from the rapidly developing Eagle Ford shale to three of its South Texas refineries. The changes will help Valero transport more crude to its plants in Three Rivers and Corpus Christi, where it has two refineries. The deal between the two San Antonio-based companies “is part of a larger project to optimize our pipelines in South Texas,” NuStar spokeswoman Mary Rose Brown said, as part of improvements expected to cost $135 million to $150 million....

Following up on Tina’s recent column on the general sense of malaise surrounding green warriors and their lack of confidence in the current administration, another chapter has been added to the book. A stalwart group of environmental activists, including some briefly incarcerated celebrities, managed to spend more than two weeks of their summer holiday camped out in front of the White House. Braving everything from earthquakes and hurricanes to slaps on the wrist from the capital police and the jeers of the public, they staked out their turf on the sidewalks to make their voices heard.So how did that work...

(CNSNews.com) – In its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would create thousands of jobs and transport 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to Oklahoma and Texas, a State Department official said its investigation found “no significant impact to most resources” along the path of the 1,700-mile project. But the State Department also said the pipeline could adversely affect the American Burying Beetle, an endangered species. Kerri-Ann Jones, assistant secretary of the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the State Department, said during an Aug. 26 conference call...

Nebraska's governor urged U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday to block TransCanada's planned Keystone oil pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf Coast, saying it could hurt a regional water source. The State Department could issue a presidential permit for the $7 billion project, which would boost U.S. dependence on Canada's controversial oil sands. Momentum for Keystone picked up last week after the department said the project would have only limited impact on the environment. The State Department should deny the permit on the grounds that the line could put the Ogallala Aquifer at risk, the Midwestern state's governor, Dave Heineman,...

Despite environmentalist protests, President Obama is about ready to approve the "jobs creating" Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada Corporation, the project owner, estimates that 20,000 jobs can be created from the pipeline itself over the two-year project development period. There are other jobs associated with development of the resource in Canada that have economic impacts on U.S. employment. So, with that in mind, let's look at the Keystone XL pipeline, and at Canadian oil sands. The Keystone XL Pipeline Project The State Department is responsible for issuing permits for cross-border pipelines. Oil sands opponents, however, are pressuring the State Department...

Actress Daryl Hannah has been arrested in front of the White House along with other environmental protesters who oppose a planned oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The sit-in Tuesday involved dozens protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. It would go through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas.Before she was arrested, Hannah told The Associated Press the protesters want to be free from dependence on fossil fuels. The group calls for clean energy investments instead. Hannah says they hope President Barack Obama will not bow to oil lobbyists.Hannah...

WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 29, 2011 - America's top climate scientist and a large group of religious leaders were arrested at the White House this morning with 140 other Americans to push President Obama to deny the permit for a massive new oil pipeline. "If Obama chooses the dirty needle it will confirm that the President was just green-washing all along, like the other well-oiled coal-fired politicians, with no real intention of solving the addiction," said NASA's Dr. James Hansen, who was arrested at the White House this morning. President Obama must decide whether or not to grant a "presidential permit"...

Rick Rydell (born Rick Green) is the #1 Radio show host in Alaska; project manager; writer, bear hunter and arm wrestling champion. Named Alaska´s GOP man of the year (2004) Rydell is possibly the only media figure who can not only boast that he knows Sarah Palin and has spoken with her for hours at a time as well as being able to not take her calls to his morning program on KENI when he has other topics to cover. Rydell offered the following comments on Alaska’s current energy situation in a recent interview. Rydell’s estimate of the recoverable oil...