State Department Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline. The State Department today released the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project.
The controversial project would carry as much as 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day from Alberta, Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The State Department’s Final Supplemental EIS concluded that the pipeline wouldn’t increase the rate of extraction of tar sands and thus isn’t likely to significantly increase carbon pollution. “The idea that this pipeline would pose little environmental risk is laughable. Alberta transitions environmental regulation to industry-backed group. Alberta, Canada has begun to shut down one of its energy and environmental regulators, replacing it with a group tasked with many of the same powers but completely funded by the oil, gas and coal industries.
Wikileaks reveals failed plans to suppress anti-Keystone activists. The oil industry never wanted people to get worked up about the tapping of Canada’s tar sands.
That much already went without saying. But a 2010 presentation released by Wikileaks shows just how desperate it was to keep to environmentalists off its back — and just how unsuccessful, three years later, it’s been in doing so. Oil Spill in North Dakota Raises Detection Concerns. TSB FOIAs PHMSA. Whoa, so many acronyms in that headline!
Allow us to “expand” upon them: TSB- Tar Sands Blockade, that’s us! We’re continuing to seek answers and accountability regarding TransCanada’s suspect pipeline construction practices, well documented across Texas. Presently we’re doing this using… FOIA- the Freedom Of Information Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. US Court: Transcanada's Keystone XL Profits More Important than Environment. In a major ruling that's flown under the radar, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit - based in Denver, Colorado - decided not to grant the Sierra Club and Clean Energy Future Oklahoma a temporary injunction on the construction of the southern half of Transcanada's Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline. President Barack Obama speaks in Cushing, OK in March 2013. (Photo: White House) The Court's decision hinged on an "injury" balancing test: Would Transcanada be hurt more financially from receiving an injunction? Had it lost, it would be stuck with one until Sierra Club, et al receive a U.S. District Court decision on the legality of the U.S. Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher & the Power of Civil Disobedience in Growing Movements. Climate activist Tim DeChristopher & author Terry Tempest Williams Climate activist Tim DeChristopher served twenty-one months in prison after disrupting a federal land auction that would have sold off the leasing rights to oil and gas companies.
He stopped oil and gas companies from exploiting resources around the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in southeastern Utah and nearby the Book Cliffs in eastern Utah. Commondreams : Obama's Top Official Pushing... Tar Sands a Dirty Outcome of Free Trade Failures. Line in the Sand: The conflict surrounding Keystone XL and tar sands - Pilot. What Is Wrong With The Keystone XL Pipeline? Welcome to Forbes. Resistance in the “Fossil Fuel” Capital of the World: An Interview with Houston Tar Sands Blockade Activists Stephanie Thomas and Benjamin Craft-Rendon.
Today, Turning Wheel interviews two activists on the front lines of the Houston Tar Sands Blockade.
Houston is of the two end point destinations for the Keystone XL Pipeline. It also is the headquarters of numerous oil and gas multinationals, including Halliburton and Phillips 66. As such, Houston offers a unique opportunity to both resist the tar sands, and also work to transform America’s oil and gas industry, if that’s possible. Turning Wheel Media: Can you tell us a little bit about your backgrounds? Stephanie Thomas: I’m a geologist by training and I spent my time in graduate school researching ancient climate and environments. Benjamin Craft-Rendon: I’m 35, was born at home in Houston, TX, and raised in a nontraditional family unit. Turning Wheel Media: There are a myriad of issues to focus on. Keystone XL Conflict of Interest: Obama Attorney’s Law Firm Represents TransCanada. Keystone XL Conflict of Interest: Obama Attorney’s Law Firm Represents TransCanada. Colarulli, Gerard Debate Keystone XL Pipeline: Video.
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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Keystone XL opponents try renewable energy projects along route. LINCOLN, Neb., May 31 (UPI) -- Opponents of the planned Keystone XL pipeline started a fundraising campaign to build wind and solar energy projects along the pipeline's Nebraska route.
The U.S. State Department is vetting millions of public comments to its draft environmental assessment of Keystone XL. Alberta Oil Spill: Up To 3,000 Barrels Spill Near Red Deer River Reports Plains Midstream Canada. SUNDRE, Alta. - Crews were scrambling Friday to contain and clean up a pipeline spill that is believed to have sent up to 475,000 litres of crude oil flowing into a rain-swollen Red Deer River system in west-central Alberta.
Plains Midstream Canada says when the spill was discovered Thursday night it closed off its network of pipelines in the area. Tracey McCrimmon, executive director of a community group that works with the industry, said it was rural homeowners who first raised the alarm about an oil pipeline spill. Radical Action for Mountain Peoples' Survival. A direct action campaign to end strip mining, based in southern West Virginia. Tar Sands Blockade » Taking non-violent direct action to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. Welcome to Blockadia! We are members of Peaceful Uprising and Utah Tar Sands Resistance, groups that are working to stop tar sands mining from beginning in Utah. As tar sands mining is scheduled to begin in Utah in 2013, we deeply valued the chance to visit the Tar Sands Blockade in Texas several months ago to gain insight from other grassroots organizers.
Finding solidarity across such a distance inspired this piece. On January 10, Oklahomans marched on a section of the Keystone XL pipeline in Stroud, Okla., to launch a direct action campaign against the project. Keystone XL Pipeline theater in Union Square. On January 8th, 2013 a group of activists put on a play in Union Square to inform people about TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline, Tar Sands Oil, and the issues (and implications) surrounding the corporation, the pipeline and oil. The Keystone XL Pipeline performance in action. Here is part one of the Keystone XL Pipeline theater in Union Square. Here is the second part of the Keystone XL Pipeline theater in Union Square. (Please watch the above videos to see a theatrical discussion on the Keystone XL Pipeline, Tar Sands Oil and TransCanada, which lasted approx 18 minutes.
The performance was informative, fun, charming, gross, and just very well done.) Here are some photos from the action. Bob and Diane Announce End to Hunger Strike on 45th day. After an incredible 46 days, Bob Lindsey Jr. and Diane Wilson have announced the end of their hunger strike targeting Valero and its role in promoting projects like Keystone XL.
The following is a powerful statement from Bob and Diane that explores the motivations behind their long fast as well as their plans for lifelong resistance to all forms of tar sands exploitation. On November 29th, 2012 in protest of Valero’s involvement with the KXL pipeline we locked our necks to industrial trucks just outside the Valero refinery. We were arrested and immediately began a hunger strike in solidarity with the struggling people of the community of Manchester. Memphis News - One Dead in Valero Refinery Accident. Valero employee killed in boiler explosion. HOUSTON - A day after a deadly accident at Valero's Texas City refinery, officials with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration arrived at the plant Saturday to begin an investigation into what went wrong.
Tommy Mannis, 40, an instrument and electrical operator from Alvin, was killed in an explosion around 9 p.m. Friday as a work crew was attempting to restart a boiler that had tripped offline earlier in the day. Another Valero employee and a contract worker suffered minor injuries. Investigations being conducted by San Antonio-based Valero and OSHA will try to pinpoint why the boiler failed. "We know it was very cold yesterday, but it wasn't necessarily related to the weather," Valero spokesman Bill Day said at a news conference at the plant Saturday. The 245,000-barrel-per-day refinery, Valero's third largest, didn't shut down, and it continued to run at planned rates Saturday. Texas judge deals setback to opponents of Keystone XL pipeline. Wall Photos. Stelco's Hamilton and Lake Erie plants idled.
HAMILTON – The U.S. company that took over Stelco Inc. is shutting down its Hamilton and Lake Erie plants, putting 1,500 employees out of work. Operations will be closed over the next several weeks as Pittsburgh-based U.S.