Liam Delmain News Today

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 11th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US had decreased by 122 billion cubic feet to 3,726 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 284 billion cubic feet, or still 8.3% higher than the 3,442 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 11th of last year, and 243 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 3,483 billion cubic fe...

Comments Despite sub-zero winter temperatures, a conflict over a controversial new pipeline is threatening to boil over in rural Minnesota, turning it into the next Standing Rock. 22 people were arrested last week during protests in Aitkin County, around 120 miles north of Minneapolis, for trespassing against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. The pipeline project would carry more than 750,000 barrels of fracked Alberta tar sand oil through the Uni...

the natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 4th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US decreased by 91 billion cubic feet to 3,848 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 309 billion cubic feet, or 8.7% higher than the 3,539 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 4th of last year, and 260 billion cubic feet, or 7.2% above the five-year average of 3,588 billion cubic feet of natural...

In northern Minnesota’s Aitkin County, just north of the tiny town of Palisade, construction workers are clear-cutting a wide path through the forest near the Mississippi River, heavy equipment rumbling, to make way for the new Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project.  And Tania Aubid, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, is there to try to stop them. "They want to ship the tar sands, toxic oil. … And when that pipeline breaches, its going to go into the waterways here," she ...

literally.  Their home is platform suspended in a poplar tree dozens of feet off the ground, on an easement about a quarter mile from where the pipeline is supposed to pass underneath the Mississippi River.  The easement consists of land running east to west, which has been stripped of its trees and brush, save for the stand where Delmain’s and another activist’s platforms hang. Heavy machinery operators toil beneath during the daylight hours, laying down matting for a drill that will pus...