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TransCanada Whistleblower Warns Of Shoddy Pipeline Practices
Posted by: RevElvis, 22:14 GMT le 11 juin 2013 +3
TransCanada Whistleblower Warns Of Shoddy Pipeline Practices

Former TransCanada Corp. employee Evan Vokes' impassioned testimony before a Canadian Senate committee last week painted "a very, very bleak picture of the pipeline industry in Canada, and probably by extension, the States," according to Sen. Betty Unger.

Vokes' allegations on Thursday against TransCanada, the Canadian company leading the controversial proposal to send tar sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast via the Keystone XL pipeline, were sobering: a "culture of noncompliance" and "coercion," with "deeply entrenched business practices that ignored legally required regulations and codes" and carries "significant public safety risks."

"It's organized crime, in my opinion," Vokes, an expert in pipeline welding and now whistleblower against his ex-employer, told The Huffington Post after the hearing. "The source of revenue is legal, but how they go about it isn't legal."

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Keystone Public Comments Won't Be Public
Posted by: RevElvis, 23:20 GMT le 01 avril 2013 +2
Keystone Public Comments Won't Be Made Public, State Department Says


InsideClimateNews.org

When the State Department hired a contractor to produce the latest environmental impact statement for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, it asked for a Web-based electronic docket to record public comments as they flowed in each day. Thousands of comments are expected to be filed by people and businesses eager to influence the outcome of the in...
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Livestock falling ill in fracking regions
Posted by: RevElvis, 14:14 GMT le 02 décembre 2012 +1
Livestock falling ill in fracking regions

nbcnews.com

After drilling began just over the property line of Jacki Schilke’s ranch in the northwestern corner of North Dakota in 2009, in the heart of the state’s booming Bakken Shale, cattle began limping, with swollen legs and infections. Cows quit producing milk for their calves, they lost from 60 to 80 pounds in a week and their tails mysteriously dropped off. Eventually, five animals died, a...
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U.S. Satellite Plans Falter, Imperiling Data on Storms
Posted by: RevElvis, 03:29 GMT le 30 octobre 2012 +1
NYTimes.comWASHINGTON — The United States is facing a year or more without crucial satellites that provide invaluable data for predicting storm tracks, a result of years of mismanagement, lack of financing and delays in launching replacements, according to several recent official reviews. The looming gap in satellite coverage, which some experts view as almost certain within the next few years, could result in shaky forecasts about storms like Hurricane Sandy, whi...
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Why We Won and How We Are Losing
Posted by: RevElvis, 17:57 GMT le 02 octobre 2012 +1
From Start to Finish: Why We Won and How We Are LosingTruth-Out.org (Op-Ed)Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall ends his recent book about the "Masters of the Planet" with such reflection:[A]part from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences. Our brains are extraordinary mechanisms, and they have allowed us to accomplish truly amazing things; but we are still only good at anticipating — or at least of paying atten...
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