Republican senators aim to add Keystone to highway bill. Keystone XL: Environmentalists Take Stand Against Senate with 24-Hour Petition Drive. The event, organized by the environmental organization 350.org, was formed in response to a Republican-backed effort to add an amendment to a crucial transportation package that would mandate the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The move, reported by The Hill, would effectively undermine the Obama administration, which rejected a permit for pipeline developer TransCanada Corp. in January after congressional Republicans attempted to impose a deadline on the decision.
We're going to war at noon eastern today--non-violent war, but a powerful, unified fight against the heart of right-wing power, the fossil fuel industry. We're out to collect half a million emails in 24 hours telling the Senate: back up the president and keep this pipeline dead, 350.org founder Bill McKibben wrote early Monday on the Web site Daily Kos. The 1,700-mile Keystone XL would transport tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to refineries in the Gulf Coast of the U.S. Sens. Global Green USA: Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline. Occupy Congress and the Occupied Supreme Court #J17.mov. Lobbying Disclosures Reveal Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Used State Dollars To Lobby For Keystone XL Pipeline.
By Josh Israel and Brad Johnson on January 26, 2012 at 9:30 am "Lobbying Disclosures Reveal Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Used State Dollars To Lobby For Keystone XL Pipeline" Recently released lobbying disclosures show that Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN), who delivered the GOP rebuttal to the State of the Union last night, joined the oil industry in lobbying Congress on behalf of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The pipeline does not go through Indiana, and few, if any, Indiana workers are expected to be employed in its construction. An analysis of fourth quarter 2011 lobbying forms by ThinkProgress Green finds: The state of Indiana’s DC representatives received $66,000 from Indiana taxpayers to lobby Congress in the fourth quarter of 2011. During the rebuttal, Daniels attacked President Obama for “extremism” that “cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands.”
Secretary Clinton won't testify on Keystone pipeline rejection - The Hill's E2-Wire. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not testify next week at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. Instead, Kerri-Ann Jones, assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environment and scientific affairs, will testify at the hearing, according to the committee. Jones headed up the State Department’s review of the pipeline, which would carry oil sands crude from Alberta, Canada, to refineries along the Gulf Coast. Republicans on the panel asked Clinton on Wednesday to testify on the Keystone decision. Clinton’s testimony would have offered Republicans a high-profile opportunity to publicly criticize the Obama administration for rejecting TransCanada’s pipeline permit. Obama, in rejecting the permit, blamed Republicans for forcing his hand.
Jones will testify Wednesday in front of the committee’s Energy and Power Subcommittee. TransCanada May Shorten Keystone XL. TransCanada Corp. (TRP) may shorten the initial path for its rejected Keystone XL project, bringing oil from Montana’s Bakken Shale to refiners in the Gulf of Mexico and removing the need for federal approval. “There certainly is a potential opportunity to connect the Bakken to the Gulf Coast,” Alex Pourbaix, TransCanada’s president of energy and oil pipelines, said in a telephone interview today.
“That is obviously something we’ll be looking into over the next few weeks.” TransCanada’s $7 billion Keystone XL proposal to bring crude from Canada’s oil sands to the Gulf was rejected yesterday by the Obama administration. The Bakken shale-rock formation is estimated to hold as much as 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil in North Dakota and Montana, according to a 2008 U.S. Production in the Bakken field may reach 750,000 barrels a day this year, Edward Morse, managing director of commodities research for Citigroup Inc., said at a conference in Calgary today. Cushing Pipeline. For national security, Keystone is a dud - The Hill's Congress Blog. Burns Lake District News - New warnings on Northern pipeline project.
Fight Over Tar Sands Pipeline May Lead to Cancellation, “Huge” Consequences. ‘Dirty oil’ vs. ‘blood bananas’ slugfest - Canada. iStock; Chuck Burton/AP On the surface it’s a silly affair, no more serious than a banana peel pratfall. It began in November, when Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands International—the banana company—wrote a letter committing to avoid “fuels from tar sands refineries” while vowing to work toward the “elimination of those fuels.”
That pledge was in response to an anti-oil-sands campaign mounted by ForestEthics, an activist group based in San Francisco’s fabled Haight-Ashbury, the one-time hippie district, against Chiquita and Dole, another fruit giant. “Say no to rotten tar sands bananas,” reads the campaign’s website, rottenbananas.org, part of a broader campaign drawing attention to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would funnel Alberta crude to Texas, but which has now been put on hold over environmental concerns. What ensued was a fight between environmentalists on the one hand and pro-oil-sands lobbyists on the other, over who can claim to be “ethical.” Tar Sands Pipeline Whistleblower: “I am not telling you we shouldn’t build pipelines. We just should not build this one.” Activism Published on January 6th, 2012 | by Stephen Lacey This post was originally published on Climate Progress and has been reposted with permission.
Mike Klink: Let’s be clear — I am an engineer; I am not telling you we shouldn’t build pipelines. We just should not build this one. By forcing the White House to make a decision on the politically and environmentally-toxic Keystone XL pipeline as part of an agreement reached in December to extend the payroll tax cut, Republicans are being lambasted by environmental groups for undercutting the federal environmental review process.
Now a whistleblower is claiming that the company overseeing the development of the proposed project, TransCanada, also has a track record of undercutting quality at the expense of the environment — further calling into question the decision by Congress to prevent a new federal environmental impact study for Keystone XL. As an inspector, my job was to monitor the construction of the first Keystone pipeline. Unethical oil and its Canadian friends | The Vancouver Observer | #EthicalOilBullshit #tarsands - posted by sol chrom. This RBS Boss Is Getting A $6 Million Bonus — Even Though The UK Government Says No. Tar Sands Pipeline | Fresh Fuzz. Fifty protesters including two seniors were arrested on the second day of protest against the tar sands Keystone pipeline at a sit-in in front of the White House.
The formal charge was failing to obey an order to not stage protests on the sidewalk in front of the White House. The group Tar Sands Action will be staging protest events in Washington, DC for the next two weeks as a bid to get the US government to reconsider allowing the construction of the controversial pipeline, which is supposed to carry tar sands oil from Northern Alberta to refineries in Texas. Barack Obama is to decide later this year on the fate of the pipeline, which will cost seven billion dollars to construct. The pipeline is also due to be constructed in environmentally sensitive areas. For more information on the impact of the pipeline see the website for the group organizing the protests, Tar Sands Action. New tarsands PR campaign: Its OUR decision to pollute YOUR atmosphere. Suck it, world. : NaomiAKlein.
Albertans must look to the future | Opinions. David Suzuki: Northern Gateway pipeline project is about profits versus environment. The battle lines are drawn, and Northern B.C.’s pristine wilderness is the latest front. With hearings underway into the proposed $5.5-billion, dual 1,172-kilometre Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project to transport bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to Kitimat and imported condensate to dilute it from the coast back to Alberta, the fossil fuel industry and its supporters have stepped up the rhetoric.
Environmentalists and people in towns, rural areas, and First Nations communities in B.C. have lined up in opposition. It’s not just about potential damage from an oil spill along the pipeline route or from a supertanker plying the precarious fiords and waterways along our northern coast —as critical as those concerns are. The larger issues are about our continued reliance on polluting fossil fuels and the economic impact of rapidly exploiting and selling our resources and resource industries. It’s about Canada’s national interest. Take the jobs argument. Don't be fooled - the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not a jobs plan, but an oil export plan | Danielle Droitsch. You’ll hear the GOP, the American Petroleum Institute, and the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce make wild claims about the job creation potential of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Don’t be fooled. The pipeline company itself admits only “a few hundred permanent jobs” are created by Keystone XL. The debate over whether Keystone XL creates jobs is a convenient diversion from something oil company backers don’t want you to know: this is an export pipeline to help them access foreign markets and bypass the United States. Video: CNN posted this interview with a TransCanada executive who admits that permanent jobs would only number "in the hundreds, certainly not in the thousands" from Montana down to Houston.
The oil industry is pulling a bait and switch scam with Keystone XL – offering it as a path to economic and national security when the pipeline is mostly meant for export. Steven M. The laser-focus emphasis on Keystone XL by House Republicans, the U.S. OIL GOVERNMENT. John Hoeven, North Dakota Senator, Pushes Keystone XL Pipeline. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A proposed pipeline to carry oil from Canada to Texas Gulf Coast refineries is the "largest shovel-ready project in the country" with the potential to create thousands of jobs and reduce American dependence on oil from the Middle East, North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said Saturday. President Barack Obama faces a Feb. 21 deadline to decide whether the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline expansion proposed by Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. is in the national interest. Republicans have been pounding him on the issue, saying it's a question of whether the president wants to create jobs and import energy from a close friend and ally, or lose jobs and see Canadian oil go to Asia.
Hoeven used his party's weekly radio and Internet address to continue pushing the pipeline. "It's hard to imagine a project that is more in the national interest and the interest of the American people," Hoeven said in the address. The U.S. Also on HuffPost: Obama Cites Jobs Returning to U.S. as Republican Pushes Pipeline. Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama used ordinary, household products -- a padlock, a pair of boots, a candle and a pair of socks -- to illustrate how some manufacturers are returning jobs to U.S. soil. “You’ve heard of outsourcing; well, this is insourcing,” the president said in his weekly radio and video address posted on the Internet.
“The companies that make these products are part of a hopeful trend: They’re bringing jobs back from overseas.” Obama made an election-year appeal to business executives at the White House this week, urging them to bring offshore jobs back to the U.S. to boost the economy and reduce the national unemployment rate of 8.5 percent. If they do, he said, “I’ll make sure you’ve got a government that does everything in its power to help you succeed.” It’s “not just because it’s increasingly the right thing to do for their bottom line, but also because it’s the right thing to do for their workers and for our communities and our country,” Obama said.
GOP bill would force approval of Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. WASHINGTON - Angered by President Barack Obama's delay of a proposed oil pipeline from Canada, Senate Republicans are moving to force him to act. A bill introduced Wednesday by 37 GOP senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, would require the administration to approve the Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days, unless the president declares the project is not in the national interest.
The State Department decided on Nov. 10 to delay the project until 2013, after the presidential election, to allow the project's developer to figure out a way around Nebraska's Sandhills, an ecologically sensitive region that supplies water to eight nearby states. McConnell, R-Ky., called the $7 billion pipeline the ultimate "shovel-ready" project and said it could create as many as 20,000 jobs. He and other Republicans called Obama's decision to delay the project transparently political and said Obama had put his reelection above job creation. "This is politics, pure and simple," said Sen. Bernie Sanders On The Keystone Pipeline. XL Keystone - The Pig in the Pipeline, The GOP is pushing a pipeline that could blow you to pieces. The Untold Story About Canada's 'Defection' By James Baldwin Even after the scores of lectures I've sat through on environmental economics, or the long discussions about energy policy with think tanks at the Johns Hopkins D.C. campus… I never expected this to happen.
At least not from the perpetrator in drama… Not Canada. Canadians were supposed to live by example for the West… But, on Tuesday, citing economic and political concerns, Canada became the first country to officially withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 agreement under which 37 countries committed to reduce carbon emissions below 1990 levels. On the surface, this represents a breakdown in transnational climate negotiations. But underneath, there's more important trend. So, while policy wonks debate "what's next" for climate talks, we need to discuss what this means for the future of energy investment in North America.
And it's positive, for now. A Policy Breakdown As you'll see, there are actually two stories here. Meanwhile, Canada was reducing its emissions. House Passes Keystone XL Pipeline Provision. WASHINGTON – The Republican U.S. House of Representatives late on December 13 made good on its threat to attach a provision that could force a decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline earlier than President Barack Obama has intended.
House leaders attached the provision to separate payroll tax legislation, despite warnings from the Democratic U.S. Senate that it would not act on the bill—and despite threats from Obama that he would veto such legislation if it did make it to his desk. The bill passed 234-193, largely along party lines. Ten Democrats joined 224 Republicans voting for the legislation; 14 Republicans joined 179 Democrats in voting against it. GOP leaders say the pipeline should be built as soon as possible in order to spur the American economy. The Obama administration decided last month to delay approval of the pipeline after vast protests from Indians and others who said the project would harm public health as well as endanger tribal culture and lands.
Medina addresses Keystone XL & eminent domain. Keystone XL bill puts some pro-pipeline Democrats in bind. Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, speaks during a public session of the House ethics committee on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP file photo/Susan Walsh) The House on Tuesday passed legislation that would tether the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline to a payroll tax cut, without the support of some congressional Democrats who back both plans. Houston Democratic Reps. Gene Green and Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee were among the 193 “no” votes. Green has been an ardent backer of the Keystone XL pipeline that would deliver oil from Alberta, Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. But Green said he ultimately couldn’t vote for the legislation because it would cut the amount of time people could get unemployment insurance benefits from 99 weeks to 59 weeks. But Green said the provisions “would be devastating to my constituents and our nation.” “If we want to cut the deficit, we need to get people back to work, not cut unemployment benefits,” Green said.
Robert Redford: Keystone XL and Jobs: Just More Pipe Dreams. BC First Nations Unite To Ban Export Of Tar Sands Oil. WASHINGTON: Lakota Leaders to Obama: 'NO' to Tarsands. With Keystone XL Delayed, Tar Sands Fight Turns to Enbridge Pipeline | The EnvironmentaList. Gov. Daniels lobbies for pipeline | Indiana | onPolitix. The week ahead: Keystone pipeline, EPA rules in focus | SierraActivist. Senators want decision on Keystone pipeline | WE Blog. “Pipeline Offence” by Kyle Carsten Wyatt | The Walrus | January 2012. Project 21's Borelli: Obama's "Excessive Celebration" on Jobless Numbers. Experts Say Lawsuits Likely if TransCanada Moves to Build Part of Keystone XL. Keystone XL could make comeback - World.
Keystone delay doesn’t change geography. UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project | Environment. Tar Sands Fight Goes Beyond Keystone: A Little-Known Pipeline Plan Could Prove Disastrous for British Columbia | Environment. Rare Bears Endangered by Oil Pipeline. Mic Check'd: Gas Industry at Ohio State University. Nebraska Ranchers Who Turned the Tide in Pipeline Fight Say They're Not Done Yet.
Obama’s Positive Flip and Romney’s Negative Flop. Big news: We won. You won. Canada-to-Texas tarsands pipeline stalled til 2013; IEA economist gives planet til 2016. Obama's Decision to Punt on Oil Pipeline Pleases Almost no One. Oklahoma Earthquake Would Have Slammed Keystone XL. With Keystone XL Pipeline Stalled, America Can Focus on Real Energy Solutions that Create Real Jobs | Peter Lehner. Keystone XL delay will cost TransCanada $1B, puts shipping contracts at risk | Energy | News. FACTBOX-Keystone XL dominates US energy, environment agenda.
Tar Sands Action. Canada May Boost Asia Oil Sales If Keystone Blocked, Globe Says. Pipeline session looks to Montana. Will other states follow Nebraska’s lead in fighting Keystone XL? Keystone XL pipeline lawsuit expanded to challenge bogus claim that spills from pipeline are unlikely | Friends of the Earth. Final decision for Keystone XL pipeline looms | Geogr@phy Blog. Koch Subsidiary Told Regulators It Has 'Direct and Substantial Interest' in Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline. State Department IG Investigation of Keystone XL Pipeline Could Halt Approval Process. Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline. Keystone XL Pipeline Protests at White House. University - ILR School: Global Labor Institute Keystone XL Pipeline Study. Why The $7 Billion Keystone XL Pipeline Is The Most Controversial Business Venture In America. State Department Opens "Special Review" of Controversial Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline. Protesting the Keystone XL pipeline at the White House: A recall on Obama’s energy record?
What if Keystone XL loses? - Talia Buford. Sierra Student Coalition Promotes Clean Energy With EPA, White House - Scrapbook. Obama faces hard choice on Canada-to-Texas pipeline | The Federal Observer. Tar sands | White House | pipeline. President Obama and the Fate of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Thousands Protest Keystone XL Pipeline Project. U.S. risks losing out on benefits of partnership if it rejects pipeline: Harper.
Pipeline delays could cost Calgary company $1M a day | Canada. Keystone XL: Thousands Gather Outside White House In Culmination Of Protests. Questioning the Keystone jobs. TransCanada: an "American company" Koch Bros. Keystone and Keystone XL Pipeline. Tar Sands. Tar Sands. XL. DESTOYERS, PEAK OIL, PLANET DEVESTATION!
Schistes bitumineux et XL pipeline project. The Big Day: Let’s Go #Surround the White House.