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Tag: Pipelines

  • 5 Reasons the Keystone XL Pipeline Flunks President Obama’s Climate Test

    In December at Georgetown University, Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate Action and the Center for American Progress Action Fund brought together experts from around the U.S. and Canada to answer the question: Can Keystone Pass the President’s Climate Test? Could the Keystone XL pass President Obama’s test of not “significantly” increasing carbon pollution? The unanimous answer from climate scientists,…

  • 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″…

  • Honor the Earth Video: Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides

    “We are not protesters, we’re protectors,” said internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist Winona LaDuke. “We rode horses from the headwaters of the Mississippi along the proposed route of a new oil pipeline that would cross the reservation. It was the third of a series of rides on oil pipeline routes. “Those rides took us on…

  • Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Gets Approved, Ignores Massive Opposition

    In a long-awaited announcement, the National Energy Board (NEB) released the final recommendation from the Joint Review Panel (JRP) to approve the contentious Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project—along with a lengthy list of conditions that must be met for the pipeline to go ahead. The panel’s report, released last week in Calgary, follows years of…

  • Senators Question Enbridge Over Aging Tar Sands Pipeline Beneath Great Lakes

    Oil giant Enbridge experienced a major backlash this week after three Democratic senators released a joint letter questioning the integrity of Enbridge’s expansion of a crude oil pipeline on the Straits of Mackinac. [caption id="attachment_315466" align="alignnone" width="500"] This National Wildlife Federation map simulates a 3, 6 and 12 hour spill from the aging tar sands…