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The Wall Street Journal | A new story laying out crude oil by rail shipments and the argument railroads are making to keep these shipment routes secret.
Inside Energy (https://insideenergy.org/tag/crude-oil/page/2/)
The Wall Street Journal | A new story laying out crude oil by rail shipments and the argument railroads are making to keep these shipment routes secret.
In states like North Dakota and Wyoming, falling oil prices have big implications, for both industry and state budgets.
Millions of miles of pipeline are slated to be built in the United States over the next two decades and most that will happen on private property. Historically, property owners haven’t benefited from pipeline construction, but that’s changing.
Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of Transportation over the shipment of crude oil in older railroad tank cars. The lawsuit follows a series of arguments, complaints and regulation changes over the past few months regarding safety rules and industry secrecy, which Inside Energy investigated during the summer.
About forty-five percent of U.S. crude oil pipeline is more than fifty years old. Even pipeline laid into the ground in the 1920s and before (think the There Will Be Blood era) is still operating today.
Yesterday, we learned how a guy named M. King Hubbert introduced the concept of peak oil in 1956, a concept that peaked in the public psyche somewhere around August 2005. Today, we’re returning to the question, “Whatever happened to peak oil?” – which is the moment oil production reaches a global maximum. Did peak oil already happen? Maybe.
Remember 2005? In the middle of a Bush presidency, Terri Schiavo and her feeding tube captured national attention, Lance Armstrong was still winning Tour de France titles, and Arianna Huffington launched a new website. Perhaps it was the shock of Hurricane Katrina, or the post-Y2K lull, but we needed of a new apocalyptic obsession and we found one in peak oil. Public interest in peak oil – as judged by Google searches, at least – peaked in August 2005 and coincided with Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, we were experiencing peak “peak oil.”
The Department of Transportation has released proposals to tighten safety regulations for crude-oil trains.
An analysis of Energy Information Agency data regarding fossil fuel production on Indian lands.