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• Keystone XL: Obama urged by Democrat backers to reject pipeline

  
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  Letter signed by 150 prominent donors says project is the most important environmental decision of presidency • Read the letter here . . . → Read More: Keystone XL: Obama urged by Democrat backers to reject pipeline Related Posts: Environmentalists urge Obama to block Keystone XL and act on Obama ...
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• Transcanada Files Another SLAPP to Criminalize Keystone Pipeline Resistance

  
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  Nice try, Transcanada, but there’s more resistance coming…. From Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On Monday, May 6 th , TransCanada filed a suit to prevent individuals from resisting the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline which is being built ...
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• Indigenous resistance grows strong in Keystone XL battle

  
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  On cloudy days, heavy smoke fills the air of Ponca City, Okla., with grey smog that camouflages itself into the sky. The ConocoPhillips oil refinery that makes its home there uses overcast days as a disguise to release more toxins into the air. These...
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• Presumption President Obama will approve Keystone XL pipeline is wrong says James Hansen

  
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  Hansen can’t believe Secretary Kerry would let Obama’s legacies go down the tar sands drain No 743 Posted by fw, May 10, 2013 World renowned climatologist Dr James Hansen sees evidence that “Conservatives in the United States are beginning to recognize the merits of a carbon fee, which would be a non-tax, 100% ...
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• Joe Biden and Al Gore on KXL

  
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  VP Joe Biden (at Buzzfeed ) and former VP Al Gore (at Price of Oil ) have both recently opposed KXL, TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Biden’s comment was to a Sierra Club member on a ropeline in South Carolina. His office quickly said his position really hasn’t changed, and he awaits the results of the ...
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• 150 Major Democratic Donors Urge Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline

  
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  Where money talks louder than science, the letter from the donors wont go unnoticed, the week before Prime Minister Harper is to visit Washington. By David Sassoon In the latest show of force by opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, a group ...
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• Friday Morning Links

  
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  Assorted content to end your week. - Yes, its for the best that some of Canadas pre-eminent scientists are offering to walk Joe Oliver through the realities of climate change. But Nik Beesons offer of political detoxification looks like the more important step for those of us who arent in denial about the ...
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• Social Media Call To Action Against Enbridge “Line 9″ Pipeline

  
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  Stop Enbridge Line 9 ! From Climate Justice Montreal (French below): Let’s create a social media wave, a creative way for each of us to express ourselves on the Line 9 and tar sands issues! (For twitter users: #directlyaffected) The National Energy Board says that the only people who can have a say in the ...
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• Energy and Environment News Roundup – 5.9.13

  
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  A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world. EMISSIONS   World Bank President urges carbon price  (via Environmental Leader) EU carbon price crisis spreads to Australia  (via RTCC) EU carbon trading system remains in peril, but rescue attempts is ...
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• Rep. Griffin Wants Exxon Pipeline Relocated, but Keystone Is a No-Brainer

  
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  He wants a pipeline moved out of an Ark. watershed, but thinks a pipeline through the Ogallala aquifer is a good idea. The contradiction grates on critics. By Lisa Song Rep. Tim Griffin, a staunch supporter of the proposed Keystone XL ...
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• Saving the BC Coast

  
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  Although I happen to live in Ontario, I am a Canadian. I care about all of Canada, including B.C. and wonder what will happen if the people who value oil profits above the environment get their way. What those who seek to reap profits in the short term fail to realize is that the environment is our real capital. If ...
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• Energy and Environment News Roundup – 5.8.13

  
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  A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world. ENERGY POLICY   China and India’s energy resource rivalry extends to the Arctic  (via Houston Chronicle) Federal government postpones oil, gas lease auctions in California  (via Houston Chronicle) US wind ...
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• Al Gore Tells Obama to Cancel KXL

  
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  Love him or loath him, you can say one thing Al Gore at the moment. He is certainly winding the Canadians up into a right old rage. Yesterday I blogged how he had called the tar sands to an “ open sewer” . Gore then went on to give a public interview with The Globe and Mail. In the interview Gore said he ...
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• Arkansas Residents Sick From Exxon Oil Spill Are on Their Own

  
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  The Arkansas Department of Health says people with dizziness, nausea and headaches have the option to leave, and it is their personal choice. By Lisa Song For more than a month, residents of Mayflower, Ark. have been told not to worry about ...
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• Alberta, Open Sewers and the Keystone Pipeline

  
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  Al Gore raised the hackles of the Canadian government this week when he criticized the country’s large scale extraction of oil from the Alberta tar sands.  The tar sand oil reserves are among the world’s largest but are particularly energy intensive to extract.  That means that extracting oil that will then be ...
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• Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus pipeline problem — two spills in one month

  
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  Exxon Mobil has a problem with its Pegasus oil pipeline -- it has reported two spills in one month
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• Enbridge pipeline protesters close Ontario highway

  
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  from CBC A highway near Hamilton, Ont., was blockaded for almost 90 minutes Monday morning as a group stopped traffic to protest Enbridge’s plan to reverse the flow of its pipeline that cuts through a rural area of Hamilton. About 40 protesters staged a mock oil spill and cleanup on Highway 6 near Concession ...
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• Rep. Markey Asks Exxon CEO to Explain Contradictory Statements on Arkansas Oil Spill

  
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  Markey cites police reports, obtained by InsideClimate News, which reveal discrepancies and contradictions in Exxons account of the pipeline spill. By Lisa Song Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to ExxonMobil Tuesday seeking ...
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• Energy and Environment News Roundup – 5.7.13

  
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  A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world. EMISSIONS   Japan, China, South Korea to cooperate on air pollution  (via Phys.org) EU to vote on carbon market reforms in July  (via RTCC) EPA to defend greenhouse gas emission rule today in federal ...
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• Canada’s “Sewer Salesman” Heads to Europe

  
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  One of Canada’s most senior politicians is back in Europe on yet another lobby tour to try and bully politicians there to ditch their landmark climate legislation as it discriminates against the dirty tar sands. Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources , will tour Paris, Brussels and London this week. ...
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