Archive for January 7, 2019
DeFazio to chair House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
(Source: Progressive Railroading 01/07/2019) U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) last week was elected chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for the 116th Congress. DeFazio had been the committee’s ranking member since January 2015 and a committee member since he first came to Congress in 1987. With the Democrats taking control of the House in the…
Read MoreCanada is producing more oil than it can handle
(Source: www.rt.com, January 2, 2019) Western Canada is producing 365,000 bpd more crude oil that current pipeline capacity can handle, a new report from the National Energy Board has revealed. According to the authority, as of September, Western Canada produced a daily average of 4.30 million barrels of crude, while pipeline capacity stood at 3.95…
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