Tag: Tar Sands
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Faith Leaders Call on President Obama to Halt Keystone XL South One Week Before Start-Up
Today, citizens marked the eighty-fifth birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. by risking arrest to stop the scheduled Jan. 22 start-up of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Texas and Oklahoma. They are calling on President Obama to exercise his executive powers to permanently shut the pipeline down, starting with ordering the Pipeline Hazardous…
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Neil Young Stands With First Nations on Anti-Tar Sands Tour
By Emily Saari Rock legend Neil Young launched a week long concert tour in Canada this week in solidarity with First Nations fighting against oil sands development in their territories. Neil Young’s latest tour, entitled “Honor the Treaties” and also featuring Diana Krall, is a music tour with a political message. Young is using his spotlight to…
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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,…
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Texas Supreme Court Favors Landowner Over TransCanada in Keystone XL Eminent Domain Case
The Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of landowner Julia Trigg Crawford, ordering TransCanada to submit information by Feb. 6 as the justices weigh arguments to hear the case regarding eminent domain abuse. [caption id="attachment_317367" align="alignnone" width="500"] The controversial clause of eminent domain benefits oil and gas companies trying to seize private land to extract…
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Secretary Kerry Aggressively Pursues Major Climate Pact, Could Close Door on Keystone XL Pipeline
By Tina Casey The tubes have been buzzing over a new New York Times report on Secretary of State John Kerry’s aggressive pursuit of a new global climate agreement, which has some clear implications for approval of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. In a nutshell, things ain’t looking so good, and that…