Tag: Pipelines
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Tree-Sitter Opts for Jail Time to Highlight Injustice of Tar Sands Industry
Jessica Clark, Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI CATS) tree sitter, plead guilty to criminal trespass in a La Porte County courthouse yesterday and was sentenced to 26 days in prison for blocking construction of Enbridge’s Line 6B tar sands pipeline in the Great Lakes Basin. [caption id="attachment_330944" align="alignnone" width="500"] Jessica Clark sitting, tree-sitting in protest…
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Could We Win the Keystone XL Battle But Still Lose the Tar Sands War?
The Vietnam War might seem irrelevant to the environmental movement’s five-year effort to stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that, if approved by President Obama, would bring tar sands oil from Alberta to the Texas coast for refining and shipment overseas. But the more I look at the situation, the more I see worrisome…
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300+ Devoted Activists Rally in Minnestoa Against Proposed Tar Sands Pipeline Expansion Project
The sky was gray, the temp was just below freezing, the wind was whistling and sleet was pelting down on Kellogg Park in downtown St. Paul, MN, last week… …but that wasn’t enough to stop more than 300 of us from across the Midwest who came to rally and march against the proposed expansion of…
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EcoWatch CEO Featured on National Google+ Hangout April 15 on Keystone XL
Join the People’s World for a Google+ Hangout. Stefanie Spear, founder and CEO of EcoWatch, and Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen Climate and Energy will be featured participants. Spear has been publishing environmental news for more than two decades, and works to educate and motivate people to protect human health and the environment. Slocum is an advocate of…
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Photographer to Travel Proposed Tar Sands Pipeline Route, Questioning Canada’s Energy Future
Robert van Waarden is a Dutch-Canadian photographer whose trade has taken him far and wide to shoot for outlets such as National Geographic Traveler, Canadian Geographic and the British Council. An ambitious new project of van Waarden’s, however, will be keeping him closer to home—and close to the environmental issues that inform much of his…