LINKS May 4, 2012

BORDER

RCMP, US Coast Guard plan joint border patrol [CBC]

Canadian flagged fishing vessel stopped in US waters [military.com]

TRADE/ECONOMY

US unemployment drops as workforce shrinks [NY Times]

After hopeful start, US economy headed for sluggish summer? [Reuters]

Canada’s Flaherty sees moderate growth this year [Reuters]

Alberta leads economic way: report [Calgary Herald]

DEFENSE

US Marines exchange infantry skills with Canadian Forces [dvidshub.net]

Trying to prove 9/11 case, and tribunal’s fairness [NY Times]

Harper government seeks other stealth jet spinoff benefits [CP]

Australia delays F-35 plan orders to help budget [Reuters]

ENERGY

TransCanada reapplies for Keystone XL permit [Bloomberg]

Alberta premier praises decision to resubmit application [Postmedia News]

US announces compromise on fracking disclosure [NY Times]

 

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LINKS May 2, 2011

BORDER

Cross-border cooperation sought for Bakken crime [Businessweek]

Man arrested at border in double homicide [WBZ Boston]

Mystery rumble from Detroit infuriates Canadians [newser.com]

66 pounds of meth seized near border [Bellingham Herald]

 

TRADE/ECONOMY

Canada has two kind of trade relationships – with US and rest of world [Conference Board]

Canada business confidence down for first time in 8 months [WSJ]

Startup Canada launch blessed by Harper, Baird [Financial Post]

Canada confident of joining Asia-Pacific trade pact [WSJ]

China’s vanishing trade imbalance [NY Times]

Unemployment reaches record high in Eurozone [NY Times]

DEFENSE

Deadly clashes in Egypt ahead of vote [NY Times]

Obama signs pact in Kabul, turning page on Afghan War [NY Times]

7 die in suicide attacks in Kabul [NY Times]

Obama’s top security official says “rigorous standards’ are used for drone strikes [NY Times]

ENERGY

Montana Gov. Schweitzer bullish on starting Keystone Xl construction in 2013 [Independent Record - Helena, Montana]

Public meetings renew focus on Keystone XL in Nebraska [AP]

Meetings planned for alternate pipeline route [Lincoln Journal Star - Nebraska]

A better case for Keystone XL [Washington Post]

Keystone Xl: Against our national security [The Hill]

 

 

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Tightrope walk over Niagara gorge set for June 15 [Globe and Mail]

More Canadians surrendering south of the border in extradition cases [Vancouver Sun]

 

BIRDS

A new sheriff in town when geese invade [Miami Herald]

State Dept. issues new environmental report on Keystone XL: “no new issues of substance”

April 15, 2011
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The US State Department has taken an important step in the permit process for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would ship oil from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.

Today’s release of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement moves the process closer to a final decision.

This is the second environmental impact statement. The first was judged insufficient by the Environmental Protection Agency, and State went back to the drawing board.

The EPA and environmental groups had asked State to consider a number of additional issues as part of the supplemental review. They included an assessment of alternative routes that could avoid an important aquifer in Alaska. They had also asked that the planned 45 days of public hearing on the environmental impacts be extended to 120 days and that public field hearings be held. State does not appear to have granted the additional time.

The Executive Summary of the Supplemental EIS suggests that the additional review did not alter State’s views of the project, whatever they may be:

Conclusions: The draft EIS provided information on key environmental issues to allow a full understanding of the analysis of environmental effects.  Although DOS received thousands of comments on a wide variety of topics addressed in the draft EIS during the comment period, no new issues of substance emerged from the comments received. DOS nonetheless determined that submitting the portions of the EIS that were revised to address the new and additional information and to address comments on the draft EIS for public and agency review would further the purposes of NEPA and prepared and issued this SDEIS.  However, the information provided in this SDEIS does not alter the conclusions reached in the draft EIS regarding the need for and the potential impacts of the proposed Project.

 

Here is coverage from the Lincoln Journal Star of Nebraska where the pipeline has been a big issue.

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