Without more crude flowing through the Alaskan pipeline, concern was growing that the pipeline itself would deteriorate.
Markets were initially calmed by reports that one large pipeline concern, Kinder Morgan, had indicated that its Plantation pipeline, running from New Orleans to the East Coast, was undamaged and expected to resume operating by Tuesday.
The answer is we don't see more progress because the pipeline concern is not the primary reason for the discouraging statistics.
Now the case, Windsor v. United States, could be considered by the Supreme Court, or the court could choose other cases in its pipeline concerning same-sex marriage.
According to Federal Election Commission filings compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, individuals from 670 oil-related interests contributed to the Bush campaign, from $250 contributions from Texas gas station owners to scores of $1,000 donations from executives of the nation's biggest oil companies, gas pipeline concerns and oil field service companies.
In less than two decades, Enron has grown from an obscure gas-pipeline concern to the world's largest energy-trading company.
Not content with changing from an obscure gas-pipeline concern into the world's biggest energy trader, Enron's bosses set their sights higher.
Enron got its start as a gas-pipeline concern; but last year it traded about as much electricity as gas.Thomas Capps, chairman of Dominion Resources, which was until recently an obscure regional utility in America, agrees.
BP P.L.C., China's biggest foreign investor, said it pulled out of the bidding to help build a $14 billion natural gas pipeline, reflecting concern about the plan's profitability.
Pegasus is not the only major pipeline to concern landowners and environmentalists in Texas, a state crisscrossed by close to 59,000 miles of hazardous liquids lines, according to the latest federal tally.
I like how you show this tension in your blog by choosing to focus on the environmental justice issues, but noting that in the end, it is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service that were able to stop the pipeline, not concern for minority groups.
