US and International News

March 26, 2017

KUWAIT CITY — Russia’s energy minister says there’s “94 per cent” compliance on a six-month oil production cut among OPEC members and non-cartel nations, as well as discussions about continuing the cuts to boost crude prices. Alexander Novak made the comments … Read More ➝

March 24, 2017

JOHANNESBURG — Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigeria subsidiary “fiercely opposed” environmental testing and is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a stalled cleanup of the worst oil spills in the West African nation’s history, acc… Read More ➝

March 24, 2017

BISMARCK, N.D. — A December oil pipeline spill in western North Dakota might have been three times larger than first estimated and among the biggest in state history, a state environmental expert said Friday. About 530,000 gallons of oil is now believed to have spilled from the Belle… Read More ➝

March 22, 2017

LINCOLN, Neb. — Activists who want to derail the Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska are again mobilizing to try to make their case to a small state commission that will decide the project’s fate. Opponents on Wednesday will ask the Nebraska Public Service Commission to let them i… Read More ➝

March 21, 2017

Venezuela’s economic turmoil has placed in limbo that country’s participation in a free heating oil program run by a Massachusetts-based non-profit that has helped hundreds of thousands of people, signalling that the program may be kaput. This marks th… Read More ➝

March 20, 2017

BISMARCK, N.D. — The company building the Dakota Access pipeline said Monday that the project remains on track to start moving oil this week despite recent “co-ordinated physical attacks” along the line. The brief court filing l… Read More ➝

January 24, 2017

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November 22, 2016

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