Keystone XL: There’s an app…
Contemplating our changing landscape, energy policy, or where that benzene smell is coming from? The Keystone Mapping Project webapp takes the nationally recognized multimedia and photography project...
View ArticleThe Keystone Fiction
Recently, a reader asked me about an existing right-of-way visible on Google Earth that follows parts of the planned Keystone XL corridor. In some areas the projected route can be seen to directly...
View ArticleTesla Beats Keystone Border-to-Border
New to the KMP Google Earth Add-on maps is a map of Tesla charging stations. Currently one can drive from the Canadian border to the Mexican border along the iconic West Coast free of charge. The new...
View ArticleKeystone XL Google Earth Map Updated
The Keystone Mapping Project’s Google Earth view has seen a number of updates recently, including expanded informational windows, addition of the 2,000 foot Nebraska routing corridor, and the...
View ArticleTransCanada Contradicts DOS
The mysterious Keystone route. Now you see it, now you don’t. As reported earlier on this blog, in response to my April 2012 FOIA request for routing data for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the...
View ArticleMap: Trail of Tears and the Keystone XL
A new KMP supplementary Google Earth map is now available for late 19th Century Ponca and Pawnee migrations, including the Trail of Tears. This map shows the relationship between these historic, sacred...
View ArticleThe Cartographer’s Illusion
In November I had the pleasure of attending Mapping and It’s Discontents, a symposium put on by the UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative and hosted by the David Brower Center. The speakers...
View ArticleFOIA Update: Appeal Hearing Delayed for Fifth Time
The December appeal hearing concerning the Department of State’s response to my 2012 FOIA request for Keystone XL GIS data never took place… nor did November’s, nor October’s. As you may recall, in...
View ArticleMap Update: The Sand Hills in WY, CO, SD, NE, & KS
The Nebraska reroute of the Keystone XL was done in large part to avoid the Sand Hills, an environmentally sensitive area that encompasses parts of Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, and...
View ArticleDept of State Parses “all” to Avoid Keystone Disclosure
In a startling display of regulatory capture, the Department of State (DoS) revealed that its refusal to release data essential to the reading of its Keystone XL environmental reports is based on a...
View ArticleMap: Kansas Confidential
With the mapping of the estimated route of the Kansas leg of the Keystone XL, the Keystone Mapping Project (KMP) is able to offer a complete interactive map of the entire U.S. Keystone XL route from...
View ArticleFOIA Update: Clinton Emails Delay ALL DoS FOIA Requests
As an addendum to my December post chronicling the latest delay in my five-year FOIA saga with the Department of State (DoS), the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) has informed me that...
View ArticleMap: Dakota Access Pipeline SD-IL
Dakota Access Pipeline route map through South Dakota, Iowa, and Ilinois. Continue reading →
View ArticleIL FOIA – Map Update: Dakota Access Discharge Wells
Dakota Access Pipeline map update: North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois Continue reading →
View ArticleTaking the DoS to Court for KXL Route
Yesterday I joined with the Center for Biological Diversity to sue the Department of State for the Keystone XL GIS data, as well as the contracts with private consultants who prepared the environmental...
View ArticleFOIA Update: Keystone Kabuki
Earlier this year, the Department of State (DoS) began sending us documents in response to our various FOIA requests. While most of the documents are redacted or of little consequence, a select few, in...
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