The West's energy landscape, transformed

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The scale of this is tad mind boggling. No wonder the US can export coal.

 

We're scraping millions of tons of coal from the ground in Wyoming and Montana. But new oil and gas developments are shifting the energy landscape – and sparking debate on U.S. fuel and climate policy.

 

 

http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/11/western-energy-transformation

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The ongoing U.S. oil boom has flooded the Gulf Coast with domestic crude to levels not seen in decades, creating a homegrown oil glut in the nation's refining center just as the Obama Administration prepares to rule on a pipeline that would add a torrent of heavy Canadian crude to the same region.

 

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20131106/need-keystone-xl-erodes-us-oil-floods-gulf-coast-refining-hub?page=show