The U.S. Department of Justice on July 27 issued an updated indictment, adding new charges and a third defendant to the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. Earlier in the day, attorneys representing Trump met with DOJ prosecutors in Washington. They pleaded his case that he committed no wrongdoing in connection with the […]
A company based in Iowa is planning a 14-hundred-mile carbon capture pipeline across five Midwestern states. The project will transport carbon from refineries of ethanol and biofuel to be buried in North Dakota, to reduce the region’s carbon footprint and protect the environment. But there are concerns about the project. NTD spoke with Jared Bossly, […]
Canada’s TC Energy shut its Keystone pipeline in the United States after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a creek in Kansas, making it one of the largest crude spills in the United States in nearly a decade. The cause of the leak, which occurred in Kansas about 20 miles (32 kilometers) […]
WARSAW, Poland—A leak was detected in an underground oil pipeline in Poland which is the main route through which Russian crude reaches Germany, the Polish operator said Wednesday. The operator, PERN, said it detected a leak in the Druzhba pipeline on Tuesday evening about 70 kilometers (45 miles) from the central Polish city of Plock. […]
Russia said on Thursday that pipeline leaks emitting natural gas into the sea appear to be the result of state-sponsored terrorism. The European Union is investigating the cause of the leaks in the Gazprom-led Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines under the Baltic Sea and has said it suspects sabotage. “This looks like some kind […]
U.S. natural gas prices climbed to a new 14-year high on Monday amid fears regarding shortages in Europe prompted by Russia’s plans to shut down the vital Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline at the end of the month. Russian state gas giant Gazprom last week announced that the pipeline, which links western Russia and Germany, would be shut down for three […]
The West has attempted to isolate Moscow through sanctions. But now India says it may agree to buy Russian oil at a discount. To learn more about how this will impact Americans, NTD spoke with oil and gas expert Joel Burcat. He says this will indirectly cause higher gas prices in the United States because […]
One of the major policies the Trump administration touted was making the United States energy independent. In contrast, President Joe Biden reversed many of those policies in his first days of taking office. With energy prices skyrocketing and the United States purchasing millions of dollars of oil per day from Russia, there is renewed outcry to reverse […]
A huge explosion hit a key oil pipeline in the city of Kahramanmaras in southeastern Turkey late on Tuesday evening, officials said, sending oil prices to a seven-year-high. Turkey’s state pipeline operator Botas said in a statement that it had cut oil flow at the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline following the explosion and that firefighters and emergency […]
On Monday, White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre disputed reports that Biden administration was going to terminate Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 pipeline. However, she conceded that the federal government was reviewing the matter.
Investigators believe a 1,200-foot cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline with crude. A team of federal investigators trying to chase down the cause of the spill, boarded the Panama-registered MSC DANIT […]
The $1 trillion infrastructure spending deal fails in its first vote in the Senate, but some senators backing the bill remain hopeful of another chance soon. The FBI says hackers working for the Chinese Communist Party targeted dozens of American pipeline companies between 2012 and 2013 and they wanted to damage the pipelines. Netflix, the […]
WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced new requirements for U.S. pipeline operators to bolster cybersecurity following a May ransomware attack that disrupted gas delivery across the East Coast. In a statement, DHS said it would require operators of federally designated critical pipelines to implement “specific mitigation measures” to prevent ransomware attacks and other […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to disagree on Thursday about a Russian pipeline project that Washington opposes, while vowing to stand together against aggression from Moscow and anti-democratic action from Beijing. At what is likely to be the German leader’s final visit to the White House before she retires from […]
