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Canada Railway Audit ‘Inadequate’ before Lac-Mégantic Disaster: Official Report
Aug 20 2014 // The Canadian government did not adequately audit the railroad company at the center of the Lac-Mégantic crude tanker disaster, which last year killed 47 people, an independent federal agency said on Tuesday, as it called...
Class Action OK’d in Lawsuit Against Exxon over Arkansas Oil Spill
Aug 15 2014 // Class action status has been granted in a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil stemming from a 2013 pipeline accident in Mayflower. U.S. District Judge Brian Miller in Little Rock ruled in favor of Arnez and Charletha Harper, the...
Oil Boom Drawing Teachers Away from Texas School Districts
Aug 14 2014 // A Texas school district is scrambling to prepare for the upcoming school year after the Eagle Ford Shale oil boom led to staffing problems. The Alice Independent School District still has to fill 21 teaching positions...
Louisiana Flood Authority Challenges Law Blocking ‘Big Oil’ Lawsuit
Aug 7 2014 // A south Louisiana flood authority is fighting a new state law aimed at retroactively killing a lawsuit filed last year over coastal damage attributed to oil and gas drilling. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection...
OSHA: Safety Violations Continue at Oklahoma Oil Refinery
Aug 6 2014 // U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited an Oklahoma oil refinery with five repeat and three serious violations for continuing to expose workers to unsafe conditions. As a...
Energy Market Dynamics of Shifting Shale
Aug 4 2014 // The expansion of shale resource extraction encompasses several interrelated elements, including exploration risk, infrastructure project risk, and the risks associated with new or enlarged trade flows and the significant...
BP Employee Emails Urge Houston, Harris County to Drop Oil Spill Lawsuit
Aug 1 2014 // Houston and Harris County officials have been flooded with thousands of emails from BP and its employees over the past few weeks encouraging them to drop a lawsuit over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Some have...
Penn. Public Utility Commission Schedules Uber, Lyft Hearings
Jul 30 2014 // The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has set separate two-day hearings next month to consider permanent licenses for ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft. The PUC last week gave the San Francisco-based firms...
Penn. Public Utility Commission OKs Emergency Rideshare Permits in Pittsburgh
Jul 25 2014 // Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission approved emergency permits Thursday for two ride-sharing companies to operate in the Pittsburgh area. The PUC had previously obtained cease-and-desist orders — which the...
Canada Transport Board Welcomes U.S. Oil-by-Rail Ideas; Warns Dangers Remain
Jul 25 2014 // The Transportation Safety Board of Canada on Thursday welcomed proposed U.S. regulations for oil-by-rail tankers, but cautioned of the persistent danger until tank cars built before 2011 stop carrying oil and other...
El Nino Seen Weak or Delayed for Several Months by Forecasters
Jul 25 2014 // El Nino will probably develop as a weak event in late summer or early fall in the Northern Hemisphere, according to MDA Weather Services, while Commodity Weather Group LLC said it may be delayed for several months as the...
Cause of Blaze at North Dakota Oil Supply Company Unknown
Jul 23 2014 // More than half a day after an industrial fire broke out in the North Dakota oil patch town of Williston, N.D., authorities still were unable to say what caused the massive blaze. The fire, which started around midnight...
Assessors in Louisiana Seek Updated Valuation Rules for Oil Wells
Jul 23 2014 // A group of Louisiana tax assessors is advocating for a series of property valuation changes that, if approved, could significantly increase property tax rates for oil and gas well operators, as well as revenues for local...
Train Crash in Wisconsin Injures 2, Spills Oil
Jul 22 2014 // A Canadian National Railway Co. train struck another freight train as it rolled through a small village in Wisconsin, causing cars to derail, injuring two people and spilling thousands of gallons of diesel oil that...
Energy Market Dynamics of Shifting Shale
Jul 21 2014 // The expansion of shale resource extraction encompasses several interrelated elements, including exploration risk, infrastructure project risk, and the risks associated with new or enlarged trade flows and the significant...
Denton, Texas, Rejects Partial Fracking Ban
Jul 17 2014 // The council governing a North Texas city that sits atop a large natural gas reserve rejected a bid that would have made it the first city in the state to ban further permitting of hydraulic fracturing in the...
Oil, Rail Firms Propose Phasing Out Old Tank Cars
Jul 15 2014 // The oil industry and the railroads that haul its crude have offered U.S. regulators a joint plan to phase out a type of older tank car tied to a spate of fiery accidents, according to two people familiar with the...
Texas Oil and Gas Regulator Asks City not to Ban Fracking
Jul 14 2014 // The head of the agency that regulates the oil and gas industry in Texas is asking officials of Denton in North Texas to withhold support from a grass-roots petition advocating a ban on hydraulic fracturing within the city...
Oil Industry Releases Fracking Standards for Local Communities
Jul 11 2014 // An oil industry lobbying group this week unveiled voluntary standards aimed at tamping down concerns about the oil and gas production process known as horizontal drilling, or fracking, in communities around the United...
Top Wages in North Dakota in Oil Producing Counties
Jul 10 2014 // Job Service North Dakota data show counties that produced oil last year held nine of the top 10 spots in average annual wages. Research analyst Michael Ziesch says North Dakota’s average annual wage increased about 4...
