Two Interior Dept. bureaus have concluded that oil and gas well-stimulation techniques, including hydraulic fracturing, off the coast of California do not pose a significant environmental risk.
The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration will help the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to analyze and reduce risks for offshore oil-and-gas operations under a memorandum of understanding signed on March 17.
Days after two Wisconsin oil and ethanol train derailments in early November, a national environmental watchdog group released a scathing critique of the decaying state of freight rail infrastructure—especially bridges—and the dangers they pose to wildlife habitats and waterways as heavier volumes of hazardous materials put pressure on aging track.
The election of Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister should crack open new opportunities for Bird Construction, with the contractor working to diversify its portfolio of projects amid lowered demand in the profitable industrial and oil and gas sectors.
The U.S. and Mexican governments on Feb. 20 agreed to jointly develop, along the countries’ maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico, oil and gas reservoirs that could contain up to 172 million barrels of oil and 304 billion cu ft of natural gas, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM.
