Tag: Tar Sands
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New TransCanada Pipeline Plan Dwarfs Keystone XL
TransCanada Corp. announced yesterday they will proceed with plans to create a pipeline capable of shipping 1.1 million barrels per day of oil and tar sands bitumen from western Canada to refineries and ports…
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Eminent Domain Used to Push Big Oil’s Agenda
Food & Water Watch released a report last month detailing lax laws and regulations, such as the controversial clause of eminent domain, that benefit oil and gas companies …
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills Advance Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda in 2013
ALEC bills in recent years have pulled states out of regional climate initiatives, opposed carbon dioxide emission standards, created hurdles for state agencies attempting to regulate pollution and tried to stop …
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For Peace and Justice, Secretary Kerry Must Reject Keystone XL
“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die on the Earth due to climate change? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for the mistake of approving Keystone XL?”
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Demonstrators Halt Construction at Proposed Utah Tar Sands Site
Dozens of individuals peacefully disrupted road construction yesterday, stopping operations at the site of a proposed tar sands mine in the Bookcliffs range of southeastern Utah …