by Nelson Bailey | Apr 8, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
The fossil fuel industry’s business model is to externalize its costs by clawing in obscene subsidies and tax deductions—causing grave environmental costs, including toxic pollution and global warming. Among the other unassessed prices of the world’s...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 8, 2017 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process, Spiritual Ecology
Letter to the Editor of Farmville Herald by Chad Oba on Apr 6, 2017. Read More
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 5, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revive and expedite two multi-billion-dollar underground pipelines that would snake oil through US states to centers of the petroleum industry. One is the contentious $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline,...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 3, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
March 31, 2017 GREAT FALLS, Mont. – A conservation group in Montana on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would travel through the state and across two of its major rivers. The Trump administration approved the pipeline last...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 26, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
As natural gas pipelines beneath our cities get older, small natural gas leaks are increasingly becoming a serious environmental problem. Taking advantage of the fact that Google’s Street View cars are constantly roaming our urban corridors, a novel...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 24, 2017 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
A crude oil spill in western North Dakota in December is now believed to have leaked about 530,000 gallons of oil, much larger than initially anticipated, according to an Associated Press report published on a local news website on Friday. This is among the biggest...
