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Protestors circle White House in oil pipeline row Photo 7:06pm EST By Jeff Mason and Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters opposed to a new oil pipeline from Canada to the United States circled the White House complex on Sunday to press President Barack Obama to reject the project on environmental grounds. Opponents to TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport crude produced from oil sands, have dogged the president for months, arguing against the carbon-spewing process of extracting oil from the sands. On Sunday thousands of men and women, many of them wearing orange vests with...

Environmentalists battling the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline call the looming White House decision on the project a referendum on President ObamaÂ’s commitment to clean energy. But the fate of TransCanada Corp.Â’s push to build the massive Alberta-to-Texas pipeline is also a crucial test of the green movementÂ’s political clout. Activists calling on Obama to scuttle the project expect thousands of people at a major demonstration outside the White House Sunday afternoon. TheyÂ’re arriving with a warning: Environmentalists say a federal permit for TransCanada would sap their appetites for door-knocking, political giving and other work on behalf of...

Thousands to Gather Around White House to Protest Keystone XL Pipeline FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON (Nov. 4) -- Thousands of citizen-activists, local residents and environmentalists will gather at the White House Sunday to protest construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which is designed to transport dirty tar sands for 1,700 miles, from Canada through America’s heartlands. **SNIP** “The production of tar sands produces more greenhouse gas emissions than the production of any other major oil source, and Keystone XL would dramatically increase carbon dioxide pollution,” Adams said. “Keystone XL makes no sense. We urge the president to reject the pipeline,”...

Amid growing suggestions the U.S. State Department will delay or potentially reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline, oilsands executives counting on ramped up exports of bitumen said Thursday there are other options. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. president Steve Laut said oilsands producers could pursue other markets, if the U.S. denies a presidential permit needed for construction of the proposed 2,700-kilometre crude oil pipeline from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast. CNRL has 120,000 barrels per day “locked up on Keystone for 20 years,” said Laut, who’s betting on U.S. approval. That’s about one-fifth of the company’s current total production of...

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,...