Judge allows Dakota pipeline to move ahead
NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s attempt to halt construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline near their North Dakota reservation was...
View ArticleObama administration halts Dakota pipeline work
The Obama administration halted work on a stretch of land where Energy Transfer Partners LP is building its controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline, a move that could threaten to thrust the fate of...
View ArticleEnergy Transfer to acquire interests in PennTex Midstream
Energy Transfer Partners LP agreed to acquire certain interests in Houston-based PennTex Midstream Partners LP for about $640 million. Energy Transfer will own 100 percent of PennTex’s general partner,...
View ArticleDakota, Texas pipeline protesters: ‘Far from being done’
Protests against oil and gas pipelines have drifted south over the last few months, traveling from encampments in North Dakota to West Texas, Austin, Dallas and Houston. Texas activists vowed on...
View ArticleDakota Access and Keystone XL pipeline projects have clearer paths after...
Construction crews are mobilizing to complete the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline and TransCanada said Wednesday that it “remains fully committed” to building the rejected Keystone XL pipeline....
View ArticleDakota Access Pipeline approval ‘imminent,’ Energy Transfer Partners says
Energy Transfer Partners executives said on Thursday that they expect “imminent” federal approval to begin drilling under the Missouri River in North Dakota and finish one of the last sections of the...
View ArticleDakota Access pipeline builder won’t step down from Texas Parks board
Pipeline magnate Kelcy Warren is moving forward with the controversial Dakota Access project and pipelines from West Texas to Mexico, and he isn’t stepping down from his appointed seat on the Texas...
View ArticleObama administration delays decision on Dakota Access pipeline
The Obama administration has yet again delayed a decision on the controversial Dakota Access crude pipeline, even as President-elect Donald Trump vows to speed up reviews of such projects. The U.S....
View ArticleEnergy Transfer files lawsuit to complete Dakota Access Pipeline
Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners filed a lawsuit asking for federal court intervention to finish building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline without final approval from the U.S. Army Corps...
View ArticleEnergy Transfer Partners CEO cancels meeting with Native Nations on Dakota...
Kelcy Warren, co-founder and chief executive of Energy Transfer Partners, on Thursday canceled his meeting with a Society of Native Nations member regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline. Opponents of the...
View ArticleEnergy Transfer to merge its pipeline network with Sunoco Logistics in $20...
Philadelphia-based Sunoco Logistics Partners would actually acquire Dallas' Energy Transfer Partners with the publicly traded Energy Transfer Equity remaining the overall parent business. Warren would...
View ArticlePolice, protesters clash at Dakota Access Pipeline
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Tension flared anew on the Dakota Access pipeline as protesters tried to push past a long-blocked bridge on a state highway, only to be turned back by a line of law enforcement...
View ArticlePhillips 66 cuts capital spending by 25 percent
Houston-based Phillips 66 will cut its capital spending by 25 percent next year, taking a conservative approach as the energy sector pulls out of the two-year oil bust. With the nation awash in ample...
View ArticleActivists to open oil drilling protest camp near Balmorhea
Another protest camp looks to open in West Texas, making at least two in the high desert south of Midland, the state’s oil-and-gas capital. Activists began working three weeks ago on the first, near...
View ArticleActivists already heading to West Texas protest camp
Activists are opening a third protest camp in West Texas. A group of conservationists and ranchers are working with a Texas American Indian advocacy group to open a camp on 20 acres near the ghost town...
View ArticleCan Mexican reform boost the price of natural gas?
Sidley Austin partner Ken Irvin has been spending so much time in a downtown Houston conference room with the Mexican electric utility, Comisión Federal de Electricidad, that he’s calling the room his...
View ArticleThe pipeline fight: Protesters rally against protesters
First came the Trans-Pecos pipeline. Then the pipeline protesters arrived. Now the protest protesters are mobilizing. North Texans for Natural Gas launched an online petition this week in support of...
View ArticleProtests planned against Warren, Texas Parks
Protesters expect more than 100 to rally against Texas Parks & Wildlife Department commissioner Kelcy Warren at this morning’s commission meeting in Austin. Activists are ramping up protests...
View ArticleProtest camps grow slowly in West Texas
Activists are still trickling in to the camps set up in West Texas to protest oil and gas developments. Last week, Lori Glover, one of the camp leaders, said the Two Rivers camp, near Big Bend Ranch...
View ArticleDakota Access cleared for speedy approval
The controversial Dakota Access pipeline is set to win the final go-ahead for completion after President Donald Trump asked for a speedy approval. The U.S. Army said it will grant Energy Transfer...
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