Tag: Tar Sands
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Report Finds Investments in Alberta’s Tar Sands ‘Make Neither Economic Nor Climate Sense’
A total of $1.1 trillion USD earmarked for risky carbon-intensive oil sector investments need to be challenged by investors…
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Oil Industry Ad Is ‘Stupid and Offensive’ Says Cowboy Indian Alliance
Yesterday, API released an offensive online ad that mocks Nebraska ranchers and farmers …
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State Department Indefinitely Delays Keystone XL Pipeline Decision
The U.S. State Department on Friday afternoon said that it is giving eight federal agencies an extension for reviewing the Keystone XL pipeline project proposal. The department said the decision partly hinges on Nebraska Supreme Court litigation that could affect the pipeline’s route. For that reason, there’s no timeline on the delay. .@StateDept will provide more…
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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…