Tag: Oklahoma
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PART IV: America Becomes Sacrifice Zone for Export Pipeline
MICHAEL BISHOP — We must decide now, as a people, if private property rights and sovereignty of U.S. citizens are to be sacrificed for the bottom line economic interests of foreign private corporations that want to send their toxic materials to Gulf Coast refineries for export …
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As Obama Signals Surrender to TransCanada, It’s Time to Focus on Keystone XL’s Southern Leg
TOM WEIS — I ask in the name of loving justice: why isn’t blocking the actual construction of Keystone XL’s southern leg being met with the same level of outrage by everyone as blocking the potential construction of the pipeline’s northern leg? …
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Wind Power’s Unprecedented Contribution to Electricity Generation in 2012
EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE — The U.S. now has 60,000 megawatts of wind online, enough to meet the electricity needs of more than 14 million homes. A record 13,000 megawatts of wind …
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HOT WATER: ‘Erin Brockovich of Uranium’ Exposes the Toxic Legacy of Nuclear Power
HOT WATER — The film follows the investigative journey of Liz Rogers, the “Erin Brockovich of Uranium,” as she travels around the nation examining the legacy of uranium mining, atomic testing and the creeping danger of contaminated waste in the drinking water of …
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BREAKING: Lifelong Oklahoman Youth Pastor Locked to Machinery in Protest of Keystone XL
GREAT PLAINS TAR SANDS RESISTANCE — Earlier this morning, Stefan Warner, a youth pastor who was born and raised in Harrah, OK, locked himself to machinery being used to build the toxic Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through …