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Enbridge Energy Line 3 protest

Native tribes in Minnesota pledge to continue fighting new Line 3 pipeline

Environment

Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to Wisconsin, if completed, is facing strong opposition from Native American tribes and environmental activists.

Canadian oil company seeks to expand pipelines other than Keystone XL

Environment

Two-year-old Michigan oil spill still not completely cleaned up, yields large fine

Environment

Obama travels to Cushing, Okla., to announce his support for part of Keystone XL pipeline

Environment

Arkansas Oil Spill Raises New Keystone Questions

The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota.

Pipeline Troubles

Global Politics

Anchor Aaron Schachter talks with The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson about an oil spill that may have big consequences for a plan to pump oil from Alberta to the Pacific Ocean, and play into the fight over the Keystone oil pipeline in the US.

The World

Another Oil Pipeline Runs into Political Debate in Canada

Environment

There is a political battle in Canada over a proposed pipeline that would go west from Alberta through a remote wilderness area to an isolated stretch of coast in British Columbia.

A section of Enbridge pipeline lies under a cover in a trench.

Opportunity and outrage at Canada’s oil sands

Environment

The oil deposits in Northern Alberta are some of the largest in the world, but extracting and refining that oil is costly and dirty. Canada is under fire for its oil production, but it’s the United States that buying much of that oil, and new pipelines are being built to bring even more of it south of the border.