Tag: Tar Sands
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Why Keystone XL Matters
WENDY ABRAMS — If we listen to the top climate scientists, we should leave the tar sands where they are, underground. But others will still insist we are going to keep burning oil for years to come, so aren’t we better off using Canadian oil rather than …
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Toxic and Tax Exempt: American Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Tar Sands Oil Spill Cleanup
OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL — In a January 2011 memorandum, the IRS determined that to generate revenues for the oil spill trust fund, Congress only intended to tax conventional crude, and not tar sands or other unconventional oils. This exemption remains to this day, even though …
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Activist Climbs Flagpole Outside Refinery Office, Hangs Banner Denouncing Investment in Keystone XL
TAR SANDS BLOCKADE — Today’s protest, from activist Perry Graham, is in response to a recent announcement by LyondellBasell’s CEO Jim Gallogly that they were “just finishing up” a $50 million upgrade to increase the Houston Refining facility’s capacity to process tar sands. The planned upgrade …
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Hold Your Senators Accountable on Their Dirty Oil Vote
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — While the vote is meaningless and the final decision on the pipeline remains with President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, these senators need to be held accountable for their irresponsible misuse of the federal budget process to approve Big Oil’s dirty energy projects …
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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? …