Tag: Keystone XL
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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″…
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Texas Supreme Court Favors Landowner Over TransCanada in Keystone XL Eminent Domain Case
The Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of landowner Julia Trigg Crawford, ordering TransCanada to submit information by Feb. 6 as the justices weigh arguments to hear the case regarding eminent domain abuse. [caption id="attachment_317367" align="alignnone" width="500"] The controversial clause of eminent domain benefits oil and gas companies trying to seize private land to extract…
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Secretary Kerry Aggressively Pursues Major Climate Pact, Could Close Door on Keystone XL Pipeline
By Tina Casey The tubes have been buzzing over a new New York Times report on Secretary of State John Kerry’s aggressive pursuit of a new global climate agreement, which has some clear implications for approval of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. In a nutshell, things ain’t looking so good, and that…
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Interactive Tool Tracks Tars Sands Refinery Production in North America
By Lorne Stockman Oil Change International launched a online tool today that tracks the flow of Canadian tar sands crude oil to North America’s refineries. The new tool enables users to discover how much tar sands crude is being processed at U.S. refineries and which Canadian refineries are regularly refining this dirty source of crude. [caption id=”attachment_315398″…
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11 Arrested Protesting Tar Sands and Fracking
On Friday, two activists with Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance and Cross Timbers Earth First! locked themselves inside a revolving door at the Devon Tower in Oklahoma City, OK in protest of Devon’s involvement in tar sands extraction and plans to increase fracking in Eagle Ford Shale. [caption id="attachment_315415" align="alignnone" width="395"] Two activists locked themselves in a…