This is a copy of a national press release sent out to highlight a new report exploring the dangers of tar sands oil in pipelines compared to standard crude oil. A report released today highlights the elevated risk of pipeline spills throughout the nation as a result of new corrosive oil products being increasingly delivered […]

Several days after an oil pipeline near Kalamazoo, Michigan leaked crude oil into the Kalamazoo River, news is spreading that TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline caused a spill in South Dakota over a month ago. According to the spill report, 100 gallons of crude oil leaked near the Roswell pump station.  TransCanada spokesman Jeff Rauh explained that […]

Oil is flowing towards Lake Michigan via the Kalamazoo River this evening.  A crude oil pipeline run by Enbridge Energy Partners LP sprung a leak near a pumping station in Marshall, Michigan yesterday morning.  The pipeline has been shut down as crews scurry to clean up 19,500 barrels of crude oil (that’s 819,000 gallons).  This is […]

Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) and company are chewing out BP’s CEO Tony Hayward today. Vermont Congressman Peter Welch (also a D) makes a good argument that the BP Spill is not an aberration but business as usual.  If Americans have learned anything over the past two years, it’s that we can’t trust industries to regulate […]

Being in a landlocked state, the BP spill in the Gulf can feel a world away even as the news media covers the tragedy around the clock.  But the tragedy in the Gulf may get a lot closer to the Midwest if TransCanada has its way.  The oil giant wants to build a new oil […]