A map is always helpful. Transcanada’s Keystone pipeline is different than Keystone XL. Keystone (this one) ends up at Wood River Refinery near St. Louis. It along with several other pipelines are already pumping around 4 million barrels per day from Canada to the US terminals and refineries. Keystone XL southern half…

A carbon tax is actually a very regressive tax. Oil and gas companies say they like it because after all the concerned trolling - it’s easily pointed out that it will impact hardworking American families(TM) more than say lazy government climate scientist. Exxon will smile fuck us with support of carbon tax to our…

Fuck the Ricketts family... and their Chicago Cubs.

In Kelly’s defense, he was raised in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston and with his lace curtain Irish upbringing may have had equally distasteful opinions of the shanty Irish of south Boston. Who knows, maybe his mother stopped drinking after several months in, unlike maybe an aunt Bridget in Dorchester Heights.…

The Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan et al) are major producers of oil from the Bakken. You can see the wells from google earth within Fort Berthold reservation. About 2,000 of them. All horizontal fractured wells. The money from oil disbursements is getting serious, too:

This post is really well written. Lays out the problem and gives us readers an idea of what may need to be done.

Are we talking lace curtain (aka “pig in the parlor”) or shanty (aka poor white and drunk trash) Irish here?

Given the political environment in the United States, it may be best to collect all the facts pertaining to the situation before jumping to conclusions. Superfund sites are extremely politically charged, based chiefly on the legal framework they have had to go through, starting with listing the site under superfund…

Scott Pruitt isn’t dumb, but in legal circles he’d not be eligible for an associateship at an NYC white shoe law firm or any of the big pro business legal firms in Chicago and elsewhere. Put it this way, a CV with a BA from Georgetown College (not that Georgetown) and Tulsa (JD) wouldn’t even get past the assistant…

Canada doesn’t need that pipeline. But CAPP can keep McKibben happy for awhile. There’s ample crude takeaway via pipeline at this point. Here’s the 2017 pipeline map showing where western crude (oil sands and conventional) goes and how it got there. In short, most of Canada’s heavy bitumen from oil sands operations in…