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. 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. 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. 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.”
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. 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. #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. New tarsands PR campaign: Its OUR decision to pollute YOUR atmosphere. Suck it, world. : NaomiAKlein. Albertans must look to the future. 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. Don't be fooled - the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not a jobs plan, but an oil export plan. 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. 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. 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.” 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. 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. 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. Robert Redford: Keystone XL and Jobs: Just More Pipe Dreams. This week the GOP leadership, once again, has sided with Big Oil against the will of the American people. BC First Nations Unite To Ban Export Of Tar Sands Oil. For the first time in Canadian history, First Nations, whose territory encompasses the entire coastline of British Columbia, have publicly united to oppose the transport of tar sands crude oil through their land. WASHINGTON: Lakota Leaders to Obama: 'NO' to Tarsands. BREAKING NEWSCensored American leaders met with President Obama Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, during the White House Tribal Nations Conference and opposed the Tarsands and Keystone XL pipeline.During the meeting of 12 American Indian leaders with Obama, the Mother Earth Accord was presented and a copy of the Academy Award Nominated documentary film, Pipe Dreams.Read the statement from IEN: Chairman Rodney Bordeaux of the Rosebud Sioux Nation said, "I sat next to President Obama, and I asked him to not sign the Presidential Permit, and I feel that he listened to my concerns seriously.
With Keystone XL Delayed, Tar Sands Fight Turns to Enbridge Pipeline. By Ron Johnson – December 5, 2011. Gov. Daniels lobbies for pipeline. The week ahead: Keystone pipeline, EPA rules in focus. Senators want decision on Keystone pipeline. “Pipeline Offence” by Kyle Carsten Wyatt. On college football Saturdays, Memorial Stadium in Lincoln becomes Nebraska’s third-largest city.
Built in 1923 and enlarged numerous times since, the 81,067-seat venue is home to the legendary University of Nebraska Cornhuskers—and, until recently, to the most welcoming fans in the country. There’s no place like Memorial Stadium to get a sense of my home state. Husker fans, and Nebraskans generally, are a neighbourly and respectful lot. Win or lose, we stand and applaud opposing teams as they enter and exit the stadium, and large groups of us line their path from field to locker room, offering good wishes and hearty congratulations. That friendliness extends throughout Lincoln. Congenial sportsmanship has always been a source of local pride, so much so that the words “Through these gates pass the Greatest Fans in College Football” frame each of Memorial Stadium’s twenty-four entrances. Labour Pains. 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. The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Canada's campaign against European penalties on its highly polluting tar sands fuel, the Guardian can reveal. At the same time, the UK government was being lobbied by Shell and BP, which both have major tar sands projects in Alberta, and opened a new consulate in the province to "support British commercial interests". At least 15 high-level meetings and frequent communications have taken place since September, with David Cameron discussing the issue with his counterpart Stephen Harper during his visit to Canada, and stating privately that the UK wanted "to work with Canada on finding a way forward", according to documents released under freedom of information laws.
Tar Sands Fight Goes Beyond Keystone: A Little-Known Pipeline Plan Could Prove Disastrous for British Columbia. November 18, 2011 | Rare Bears Endangered by Oil Pipeline. There are only an estimated 400-1,000 Spirit or Kermode bears left in the whole world. They live in an undeveloped, beautiful forested area of coastal British Columbia. Now a proposed tar sands pipeline from Enbridge corporation could disrupt and eventually devastate their last remaining habitat if it is approved and constructed.
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.
Keystone XL delay will cost TransCanada $1B, puts shipping contracts at risk. 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. Final decision for Keystone XL pipeline looms. 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. White House. 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. 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.