Keystone XL Decision Delayed Again? Inspector General Pushes Report on ERM Scandals to January

Did the Obama administration’s decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline just get delayed again? Quite possibly, since the State Department Inspector General announced today that it has delayed until January the release of its review of the scandals surrounding Environmental Resources Management, Inc., the contractor chosen by TransCanada to perform State’s Keystone XL environmental […]

Growing Louisiana Sinkhole Swallowing Trees, Blamed On Industrial Activity

New video filmed in Bayou Corne, Louisiana by the Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness shows the latest “slough in” at an ongoing sinkhole sucking in whole trees. The toxic sinkhole was discovered by a resident on August 3rd, 2012. At that time, it was three acres but it’s since grown to over 24 acres in size. […]

US Tar Sands Operations Challenged By Grassroots Opposition

While many environmental advocates urge consumers to buy local, in this case, local isn’t always better. While the Canadian tar sands are more notorious, developments here in the US are moving forward as local governments issue more permits to allow companies to start mining. More than half of the U.S. tar sands resources in active […]

Exclusive: Ousted Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Launching Ohio Land Grab

Aubrey McClendon’s penchant for “land grab” as a business model made the recently-ousted Chesapeake Energy CEO infamous – and he’s at it again for his new start-up hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) company in Ohio’s Utica Shale basin. It’s a formation he once hailed as the “biggest thing to hit Ohio since the plow.” Under Securities and […]

Is Geoengineering a Silver Bullet for Climate Change?

This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Altering environments to suit our needs is not new. From clearing land to building dams, we’ve done it throughout history. When our technologies and populations were limited, our actions affected small areas – though with some cascading effects on interconnected ecosystems. We’ve now entered an era in which […]

Maysdorf II By the Numbers: BLM's Big Coal Giveaway Tomorrow

Update Aug 23: In a stunning development, there wasn’t a single bid at the BLM auction, with Cloud Peak Energy passing up the chance to bid out of fear that it would not be profitable.    Tomorrow, the Bureau of Land Management will sell off roughly 148 million tons of coal. The BLM is opening […]

CNRL Cold Lake Bitumen Seepage Hits 1.2 Million Litres, Reports AER

The ongoing trouble on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range in North Eastern Alberta, where oil company Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL) has numerous in situ oil recovery sites, has yet to show signs of abatement. Underground oil spills on CNRL’s Primrose facility have been leaking bitumen emulsion into the muskeg, waterways and forest that surround […]

Warren Buffett Buys Over $500 Million of Suncor Tar Sands Stock, Latest in "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"

Warren Buffett – the fourth richest man on the planet and major campaign contributor to President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 – may soon get a whole lot richer. That’s because he just bought over half a billion bucks worth of Suncor Energy stock: $524 million in the second quarter of 2013, to be precise, according […]

Study Finds Utility Decoupling is Gaining Traction

This is a guest post by Clint Robertson. A new study found that 25 states had adopted revenue decoupling for at least one natural gas or electric utility by December 2012. In total, 24 electric and 49 natural gas utilities participate in decoupling according to the report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, […]

Mark Fiore Unveils "Keystone Clones" Cartoon on Keystone XL Corruption Ring

Mark Fiore – the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist satirist – has a new video out that in two-minutes pokes fun at the perverse conflicts of interest that’ve prevailed throughout debate over the prospective Keystone XL northern half. It’s these conflicts of interest that DeSmogBlog has focused on in the past several months since the March 2013 […]