Tag: Energy
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U.S. Fracking Industry Reacts to Water Scarcity Issues
“When all of us had nothing [before the oil boom], there was nothing to fight about … Now, so many friendships have been destroyed because of water and oil.”
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Climate Change Fails to Make G8 Agenda, Report Finds 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels Need to Stay in the Ground
As world leaders gather at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, tackling climate change is not even on the agenda. In fact the opposite will happen: Canada will use the meeting to push for the expansion of the tar sands. Last week, Canada’s Prime Minister …
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Tell PHMSA to Immediately Investigate Anomalies in the Southern Leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL
Sign this petition to tell the federal Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to perform its legal duties to protect human health and the environmental from TransCanada’s southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline …
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Opposition Escalates Over Faulty Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline
As if Bishop and his neighbors haven’t been through enough from the invasion of this Canadian company taking their property via eminent domain and then bulldozing their land, now they watch as Michels digs up and rebuilds dozens of …
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Another Chemical Plant Explodes as Industry Booms Due to Cheap Natural Gas from Fracking
Less than two months after the disaster at West Fertilizer Co. in West, TX, another chemical plant erupted in flames Thursday just south of Baton Rouge, LA. The explosion at the Williams Olefins plant in Geismar killed at least …