Petroleum
In Canada, a pipeline environmental engineer protests her former company’s tar sands plan
Romilly Cavanaugh once worked as an environmental pipeline engineer for Trans Mountain, a unit of Kinder Morgan that’s now trying to expand a Canadian tar sands oil pipeline. But in March she joined 200 protestors trying to block pipeline construction. She now awaits trial for criminal contempt of court.
It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.
Clashes over an oil pipeline slated to cross historic Native territory in North Dakota continue after more the 140 people were arrested in protests last week. The increasingly high-stakes face-off is one of the biggest actions by Native Americans in years.
The road to Arctic oil drilling runs through Seattle. People there are trying to block it.
President Obama has given Shell the green light to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean, but activists and politicians in Seattle are throwing up as many stop signs as they can as the drilling rig preps there for its journey north. It’s the latest flashpoint in the growing international anti-fossil fuel movement.
Five years later, the Gulf of Mexico is still recovering from Deepwater Horizon
Things are getting better as oil and toxins from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill dissipate in the Gulf of Mexico — but slowly. Scientists researching the area say no one can be sure when the “pervasive” chemicals will finally disappear.
Fracking is about to change, and almost no one is happy about it
The Obama administration has announced new regulations on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on federal lands. But while the oil and gas industry is predictably upset about the new rules, environmentalists think the government needs to do more.