President Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported toxic tar sands oil from under Canada’s Boreal forest, home to many North American songbirds populations, to oil refineries in Texas. The pipeline would increase the production on one of the dirtiest forms of oil and threaten rivers and communities all along its path. Tar sands oil is dirtier and more corrosive than conventional oil, and current regulations will not prevent leaks and spills.
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Posted February 19, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil
As Congressional Republicans and Big Oil allies in Washington try to resuscitate the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, people on the frontlines have opened a new campaign to stop the massive $7 billion project. In Texas, landowners are locking arms to fight would-be pipeline builder...continued→
Posted February 15, 2012 by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
People from across the nation have come together in their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline for dirty tar sands oil. Over the course of just 24 hours, Americans sent more than 800,000 messages to their senators condemning an effort...continued→
Posted February 14, 2012 by Danielle Droitsch in Moving Beyond Oil
Yesterday and today, the offices of Congress are being flooded with messages from hundreds of thousands of Americans opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. After just 24 hours, almost 800,000 messages were sent to Senators from all across America...continued→
Posted February 14, 2012 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
Click here to share this image on Facebook Americans from all walks of life who want to fight climate change and build a clean energy future have sent a clear message: the...continued→
Posted February 13, 2012 by Elizabeth Shope in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Today, a group of fifteen scientists wrote to Congressional leadership to once again express their concerns about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Canada’s tar sands underlie an area of the Boreal forest the size of Florida....continued→
Posted February 13, 2012 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
Photo credit: Peter Essick, National Geographic The fight against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has reached another crucial turning point. Big Oil has teamed up with Republicans in Congress to push a provision that would allow the...continued→
Posted February 9, 2012 by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
“The appearance of this . . . needs to be cleaner” (unnamed State Department official in IG report) In a report sent to Congressional offices today, the State Department Inspector General found that the environmental review of the Keystone XL...continued→
Posted February 8, 2012 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a deeply flawed bill that would use Congressional authority to permit TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The bill, H.R. 3548, would force the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to grant a permit for Keystone...continued→
Posted February 4, 2012 by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
First of all, you won’t find tar sands mentioned in any of the polling. And in most polls, you won’t even find oil. It’s just the Keystone XL pipeline, no context, no mention of what it will carry, and certainly...continued→
Posted February 1, 2012 by Laurie Johnson in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
[We’re] probably looking at…from Montana to Houston, I don’t know, [job creation] in the hundreds...” (Robert Jones, TransCanada’s Vice President for Keystone Pipelines, CNN, November 11, 2011) Interesting quote. TransCanada and its allies can’t seem to keep their...continued→
