pipelines
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FERC, Programmatic Analysis and the Shale Gas Boom Going Bust
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the successor-agency to one of the National Environmental Policy Act’s (NEPA) principal catalysts, the now-defunct Federal Power Commission (FPC). The FPC was renowned for its ham-handed exclusion of environmentalists...October 29, 2015 368 0 -
The Claims Against USFS’s Pipeline CATX Rejected by District Court
The Sierra Club’s lawsuit challenging the Forest Service’s grant of a special use permit to the “Line 5” pipeline traversing Michigan (and parts of the Huron-Manistee National Forest) was dismissed by the district court on September...October 14, 2015 244 0 -
By a “Hairsbreadth” or a Hectare?
The Flanagan South Pipeline (FSP) was in the news for a while. Proposed in 2011 and built in under two years, the first oil flowed through it in December 2014. Enbridge, the owner of the pipeline,...October 7, 2015 350 0 -
CATX Holding on Line 5!
The pipeline is known simply as “Line 5.” As an older pipeline, it represents a special kind of risk. Failure prospects increase as pipelines age. This one has been operating since 1953. And ever since it...March 5, 2015 428 0 -
NEPA on Crude-by-Rail: A Paper Tiger?
Railroads have scored big as more crude oil has been transported by rail over the last five years. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) knows it has a problem, though. As the devastating derailment in Lac...December 15, 2014 1579 0 -
Segmentation: A Conduit to Conflict
The pipeline boom has many in the environmental community on alert against a perennial bugbear NEPA veterans know well. In any infrastructural “system” built and maintained piecemeal, doubts and questions will arise over the measurable or...September 10, 2014 1457 0
