October 5, 2021 archive

Iowa farmers come out against carbon capture pipeline

  The proposed 2,000-mile carbon capture pipeline that has run into opposition in Nebraska has encountered resistance in Iowa as well. Farmers in Boone County, Iowa ended an information meeting on Monday about the Midwest Carbon Express pipeline by banding together to refuse easement offers for the $4.5 billion project that is designed for Nebraska, …

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Energy news headlines

** Oil started flowing through the newly built Line 3 pipeline in northern Minnesota on Friday, bringing closure to one chapter of the large and bitterly disputed construction project. ** Enbridge has reimbursed U.S. police $2.4 million for arresting and surveilling hundreds of demonstrators who opposed construction of Line 3. ** Canada on Monday invoked a 1977 treaty with the …

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Texas company linked to California oil spill had record of violations

  Records show the Texas company that operates the oil pipeline that ruptured over the weekend off the coast of California causing the state’s worst oil pollution event in decades had a long list of safety and environmental violations.   Beta Operating Co., a subsidiary of Houston-based Amplify Energy  was cited 125 times since 1980 according …

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Enviros want New Mexico to brake its hydrogen race

  While the state of New Mexico barrels toward development of converting the state into a “hydrogen hub,” environmentalists are urging Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to put on the brakes. They’re worried her embrace of strategies to turn New Mexico into a “center of excellence” for a future hydrogen economy might be too much, too …

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