Published this month in the Journal of the Blindingly Obvious: Pipelines pose fewer risks for workers and less spills compared to transporting oil by rail or truck.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia – Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived in Bali for an Asia-Pacific leaders’ summit Sunday bearing what could be called a $36-billion vote of confidence from Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company.
Update, link fixed….

Locked up Abroad

A young Finnish female activist is a vegan and unable to eat prison food, Paikacheva said, adding that prison officials had denied her request for vitamins to be delivered to her.

Several non-smoking activists also complain of being placed in cells with chain-smokers.

First world problems.
Maybe now they understand just what the Ezra meant when he wrote, Ethical Oil.

Interesting comparison:

Dem senator: “The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler”

Premier Brad – call your office.

PREVIEW: Ezra Levant crashes an anti-oil protest

Via a source in the Canadian energy industry;

… at least four crude IEDs have been discovered at Pennsylvania gas wells near the Susquehanna River. Anti-fracking groups are suspected.
I can’t provide a weblink for this so keep an eye out for stories as they emerge.
Meanwhile, search “The Anti-Fracking Pledge of Resistance” and “Earth First!” for a backgrounder on this movement.

Emphasis mine.

Extinguishing life on earth before extinguishing was cool: “Fracking hell!”

… the researchers calculate that the impact would have generated thousands of earthquakes of up to magnitude 9.9 (significantly more powerful than the largest recorded by modern seismologists) for hundreds of kilometres around. In effect, it would have been the biggest fracking operation in history, releasing oil and gas from the shattered rock in prodigious quantities.
The upshot, Dr Tohver believes, would have been a huge burp of methane into the atmosphere. Since methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, that burp would have resulted in instant global warming, making things too hot for much of the planet’s animal life. Presto! The Permian mass extinction is explained.

But of course.
h/t Larry

“Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of terrorism-exporting religious fanatics.”

AP:

A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press.
After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water, geologist Richard Hammack said.

More: Gasland II’s Luddite Slander Of ‘Fracking’ Is The Latest Technophobe Attack On Progress

The old burning water trick;

Consider a celebrated case in Parker County, Texas. Resident Steven Lipsky had methane in his drinking water. The EPA fastened on the idea that Range Resources had contaminated his well through fracking, and hit the company with an endangerment finding and remediation order. But as Mario Loyola of the Texas Public Policy Foundation recounts, the EPA couldn’t actually defend any theory whereby the fracking had polluted the well.
Slowly, the agency retreated in ignominy. It turned out that the well wasn’t contaminated at all, but contained levels of methane typical in the area and below levels that the federal government considers a threat to health. “Area residents,” Loyola writes, “had found natural gas in their water wells years before any drilling for natural gas. Some water wells were even ‘flared’ for days after drilling, to release dangerous levels of methane. One area subdivision’s water tanks warn ‘Danger: Flammable Gas.’

‘Peak oil’ web site to close its doors