TransCanada Pipeline Explodes, Thousands Without Heat
Several thousand people in southern Manitoba have been told that a pipeline explosion could mean they'll be without natural gas service for up to several days as temperatures hover close to —20 C. "As...
View ArticleCommunities Organize Pipeline Watch To Monitor TransCanada
“In our state, citizens and landowners continue to push back against this unwanted pipeline,” said Kathy DaSilva, Texas advocate. “A Texas coalition recently attended a meeting held at the Pipeline and...
View ArticleApproving Keystone XL Could Be Obama’s Biggest Mistake
The simple fact is this: if Keystone XL is built, it will be easier to exploit fossil fuel reserves large enough to drastically destabilize the climate. A direct pipeline to refineries and global...
View ArticleFBI Held Strategy Meeting with TransCanada in 2012
The FBI meeting with TransCanada suggests that concerns over opposition to the pipeline had reached the highest levels of the law enforcement community. Terry Brannon, Cushing Police Chief at the time,...
View ArticleLakota Warriors Vow ‘Dead or in Prison Before We Allow’ Pipeline
The Oglala Lakota Nation is actively fighting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. This 1,700-mile pipeline, which would carry 830,000 barrels of crude oil each day from western Canada through...
View ArticleOpen Letter To Sioux Tribal Council On KXL, TransCanada
Not taking a firm stand in opposition to the pipeline places the Lower Brule community at risk as well as the all communities that will be affected by the pipeline’s construction. Access to clean...
View ArticleTransCanada Considers Rail As Pipeline Progress Slows
TransCanada Corp is in talks with customers about shipping Canadian crude to the United States by rail as an alternative route as its Keystone XL pipeline project that has been mired in political...
View ArticlePipeline Protests For President’s Visit
Members of the Cowboy and Indian Alliance, a coalition of tribal members, farmers, ranchers and landowners stretching from Canada to Texas, set up along Highway 1806 at the Cannon Ball Pit Stop, a...
View ArticleTransCanada Buys Town’s Silence
A small town in Ontario, Canada will be receiving $28,200 from energy company TransCanada Corp. in exchange for not commenting on the company’s proposed Energy East tar sands pipeline project,...
View ArticleIndigenous Community Evicts Fracking Crew From Its Territories
The Unist’ot’en Camp, a pipeline blockade on unsurrendered indigenous land in the interior of British Columbia (BC), peacefully evicted a pipeline crew that was found trespassing in their territories...
View ArticleNE Supreme Court Sides With TransCanada, Not Landowners
Lincoln, NE — In a split decision, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled on Friday to allow LB 1161 to stand. Four of the seven justices sided with landowners, but we needed five to win — as a...
View ArticleTransCanada Opts To ‘Drill First, Ask Later’
The Tree reports - TransCanada is taking New Brunswickers by surprise this week, drilling boreholes in the Bay of Fundy for a pipeline project that hasn’t been approved yet. The energy giant is...
View ArticleAcronym TV: Greed Is Not Good
By Dennis Trainor, Jr. for Acronym TV. TransCanada lost its bid to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Now it is using NAFTA and the US Federal courts to seek $15 billion damages – and they way I...
View ArticleMontreal Region Rejects Energy East Pipeline
By Mike De Souza and Charles Mandel for National Observer - The city of Montreal and surrounding communities have come out swinging against TransCanada Corporation’s Energy East pipeline project. “Call...
View ArticleTransCanada Wins Bid For Underwater Gas Pipeline Across Gulf Of Mexico
By Steve Horn for Desmog - TransCanada, owner of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline currently being contested in federal court and in front of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) legal panel,...
View ArticleTranscanada’s $15 Billion Suit Against US Corporate Nationhood At Its Worst
By Michael Levitin for Occupy - When the NAFTA nations – United States, Canada and Mexico – meet Wednesday for the annual Three Amigos Summit in Ottawa, climate change and clean energy are expected to...
View ArticleTransCanada Engineer Warns: Don’t Trust TransCanada
By Editor for Corporate Crime Reporter - Evan Vokes worked as an engineer for TransCanada for five years — from 2007 to 2012. And right from the beginning, it was clear to Vokes that the company had a...
View ArticleTransCanada’s Proposed Potomac River Pipeline Protested
By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. The protest was a powerful show of community opposition, see Facebook Live video below. People stood silently to show their opposition. Organizers instructed them...
View ArticleNo Pipelines Under The Potomac Camp To Launch
By No Potomac Pipeline. From Standing Rock to Hancock people are rising up to resist fracked gas pipelines in their community. Following a historic fight in Maryland, where we became the first state...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline Spills Over 200,000 Gallons Of Tar Sands
By Robinson Meyer for The Atlantic. South Dakota - The Keystone pipeline was temporarily shut down on Thursday, after leaking about 210,000 gallons of [tar sands] oil into Marshall County, South...
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