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• House set to vote Wednesday on whether to snatch Keystone XL approval from presidents hands

  
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  Theres a process for approving projects like the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry petroleum from the tar sand deposits of Alberta to the refineries of the Texas Gulf Coast. That process is set by the National Environmental Protection Act that requires approval of an environmental impact statement, which includes ...
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• Canadian Government Pursuing Aggressive Lobbying Push On Keystone XL

  
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  Tiffany Germain is a Senior Climate/Energy Researcher in the Think Progress War Room. (Source: Suncor Energy Inc., BLM) The Canadian government has nearly doubled its spending to promote the Keystone XL pipeline to $16.5 million, up from $9 million a year ago. This dramatic spending increase is a result of ...
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• Canadian Government Pursuing Aggressive Lobbying Push On Keystone XL

  
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  Tiffany Germain is a Senior Climate/Energy Researcher in the Think Progress War Room. (Source: Suncor Energy Inc., BLM) The Canadian government has nearly doubled its spending to promote the Keystone XL pipeline to $16.5 million, up from $9 million a year ago. This dramatic spending increase is a result of ...
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• Canadian MP Calls for Petcoke Inquest

  
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  In January this year Oil Change International exposed a dirty overlooked secret of the tar sands. Called petcoke, it is a by-product of the tar sands process, which is so dirty it emits five to ten per cent more carbon dioxide than coal. The report also pointed out that the use of petcoke in the tar sands was in ...
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• TransCanada Seizes Land In Texas By Eminent Domain by Walter Brasch

  
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  by Walter Brasch Writer, Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com May 19, 2013 Julia Trigg Crawford of Direct, Texas, is the manager of a 650-acre farm that her grandfather first bought in 1948. The farm produces mostly corn, wheat, and soy. On its north border is the Red River; to the west is the Bois d’Arc Creek. ...
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• Koch Brothers make a market in the dirtiest fuel on Earth

  
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  Koch Brothers make a market in the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Of course.
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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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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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