Tag: Energy
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Another Maine Town Passes Resolution Opposing Tar Sands Pipeline
Otisfield residents voted overwhelmingly at town meeting Saturday to pass a municipal resolution stating opposition to sending tar sands oil through ExxonMobil’s Portland-Montreal Pipeline, making it the seventh Maine town …
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Renewable Energy Activists Unite Worldwide to End the Age of Dirty Coal
This weekend, activists showed they would not longer stand by allow the advancement of coal to threaten their futures. Standing together, they called for an end to …
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Surrounding States Mull Fracking Waste Bans Leaving NY No Room for Dirty Drilling
Opening a new front in the battle over fracking in New York State, citizens in yet another neighboring state—Massachusetts—called on their legislators to ban the processing of fracking wastewater …
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Six Arrested Attempting to Block Oil Train to Canada
Yesterday, members of 350 Maine attempted to block a Pan Am train as it passed through downtown Fairfield, aiming to prevent roughly 70,000 barrels of crude oil from reaching the Irving Refinery in New Brunswick, Canada. The blockade was staged …
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TD Bank Divestment from Keystone XL a Hoax by Tar Sands Blockade
“TD Bank’s green-washing of its preservation of 107 acres in Florida while simultaneously investing in the destruction of a forest the size of the entire state of Florida is downright absurd and must be brought to light.”