Category: Texas
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Frackquakes: Public Opposition Builds As Property Rights Are Endangered in Texas
By Sharon Wilson and Alan Septoff The earthquakes you may have heard about—the 30 tremblers that have struck north central Texas since Nov. 1 and have damaged many homes. The quakes are most likely being caused by underground disposal wells used to get rid of wastewater generated during fracking operations. “Frackquakes,” some are calling them. [caption id="attachment_319300" align="alignnone" width="500"]…
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TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline’s Southern Leg to Begin Transporting Oil to U.S. Gulf Coast
TransCanada announced today the start up of the 485-mile southern segment of the Keystone XL, now called the Gulf Coast Pipeline, which runs from Cushing, OK, to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. In anticipation of TransCanada’s announcement, Texas landowners launched a new oversight network today, Texas Pipeline Watch, to arm landowners and citizens along the route with cameras…
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Slideshow: Direct Action to Stop Keystone XL South at the White House
You wouldn’t know it from the lack of focus and attention by the environmental establishment, but the 485-mile southern leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has been built, is being filled and is scheduled to start up on Jan. 22. Front line reports from landowners in Texas and Oklahoma say that TransCanada has patrol…
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Faith Leaders Call on President Obama to Halt Keystone XL South One Week Before Start-Up
Today, citizens marked the eighty-fifth birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. by risking arrest to stop the scheduled Jan. 22 start-up of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Texas and Oklahoma. They are calling on President Obama to exercise his executive powers to permanently shut the pipeline down, starting with ordering the Pipeline Hazardous…
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Urgent Request to Stop Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline Ignored by White House
The following letter was sent to the White House on Dec. 10 at the invitation of President Obama’s Senior Advisor, Valerie Jarrett. This urgent request from embattled Texas landowners for a face-to-face meeting with the president has so far been ignored. TransCanada has announced plans to bring the southern leg of Keystone XL pipeline commercially on line Jan. 22. [caption id=”attachment_317631″…