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Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Exacerbates Climate Change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 17th, 2013
Scientific American: The Keystone XL Pipeline would move enough tar sands oil to result in another 181 million metric tons of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere yearly. A new report prepared by environmental group Oil Change International (OCI) analyzes what the climate change impacts of the proposed pipeline might be.
Consultants hired by the U.S. State Department determined that completing the Keystone XL Pipeline that would transport tar sands from Canada to Texas would have no impact on greenhouse gas emissions,...
Route Change Forces Keystone Foes to Shift Aim to Climate Change
Posted by Bloomberg: Jim Efstathiou Jr on April 17th, 2013
Bloomberg: Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline used to have a simple argument: the project would endanger Nebraska’s delicate Sand Hills region, a vast network of dunes and wetlands that have been designated a National Natural Landmark.
State leaders, including Republican Governor David Heineman, opposed the project on those grounds. President Barack Obama cited the threat to water in the state before denying TransCanada Corp. (TRP) a permit last year to build the pipeline, which would carry Canadian tar...
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Comments Off on Route Change Forces Keystone Foes to Shift Aim to Climate ChangeHouse Tries Again To Force Keystone Pipeline Approval
Posted by InsideClimate: John H. Cushman Jr. on April 17th, 2013
InsideClimate: A House subcommittee has taken the first step toward legislation that would push through the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, bypassing the State Department and the White House while limiting other regulatory and court reviews.
The subcommittee on energy and power voted 17-9 on Tuesday to approve the Northern Route Approval Act and send it to the full Energy and Commerce Committee. Two Democrats joined 15 Republicans in support of the bill.
The legislation declares that the delivery of oil...
African nations strive to stem desertification with a ‘Great Green Wall’
Posted by UN News: None Given on April 17th, 2013
UN News: Stretching from Dakar to Djibouti, a United Nations-backed programme dubbed the 'Great Green Wall` brings together 11 countries to plant trees across Africa to literally hold back the Sahara desert with a swathe of greenery, lessen the effects of desertification and improve the lives and livelihoods of communities. The Wall, an initiative spearheaded by African heads of State, will stretch about 7,000 kilometres from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east and will be about 15 kilometres wide...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on African nations strive to stem desertification with a ‘Great Green Wall’Keystone fought by Nebraska landowners vowing to block
Posted by Bloomberg: Jim Snyder on April 17th, 2013
Bloomberg: Bob Allpress describes himself as a “redneck Republican.” Standing on the pasture behind his Nebraska home, the burly former Marine Corps sergeant with a Fu Manchu mustache explains what made him an environmental activist.
The Keystone XL pipeline, which TransCanada Corp. (TRP) wants to build to bring Alberta’s oil sands to refineries on the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico, would cut across the 900 acres near Naper, Nebraska, that Allpress’s grandfather acquired by homestead in 1886. He is vowing...
Polluting Paradise: Big brands including Gap exposed in Indonesian toxic water scandal
Posted by Greenpeace: None Given on April 17th, 2013
Greenpeace: Greenpeace International investigations have revealed the dumping of industrial wastewater containing a cocktail of toxic and hazardous chemicals, and caustic water, directly into the Citarum River, West Java. International fashion brands, including Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy are linked to this pollution through their direct business relations with PT Gistex Group; the company behind the polluting facility.
“Gap’s latest advertising campaign declares that we should ‘Be Bright’, but by collaborating...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Polluting Paradise: Big brands including Gap exposed in Indonesian toxic water scandalExxon replaces part of Arkansas pipeline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 17th, 2013
United Press International: A new section of the Pegasus oil pipeline was installed in Mayflower, Ark., after the damaged section was cut out, Exxon Mobil said.
About 5,000 barrels of oil spilled from a 22-foot rupture in the Pegasus oil pipeline in late March. The pipeline was moving diluted tar sands oil from Canada.
Exxon said a new pipeline section was installed after the damaged section was removed and sent to a third-party laboratory for metallurgy testing.
Environmental groups say Canadian crude oil is more...
Keystone Opponents Deepen Criticism of Proposed Pipeline
Posted by Inter Press Service: Carey L. Biron on April 16th, 2013
Inter Press Service: Two new reports, put out by a cross-section of U.S. environmental and public interest groups, are attacking central rationales for the construction of a major new Canada-U.S. oil pipeline proposal, which has emerged as an emblematic cause for green groups who have angrily denounced a U.S. government approvals process.
A new study released Tuesday by eight of the country's most established environmental advocacy groups suggests that U.S. regulators have massively underestimated the proposal's environmental...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Keystone Opponents Deepen Criticism of Proposed PipelineKeystone XL Pipeline Would Hasten Climate Change: Report
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on April 16th, 2013
Environment News Service: In a new report, "Cooking the Books: How The State Department Analysis Ignores the True Climate Impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline," environmental groups and scientists opposed to the pipeline warn of "climate disaster" if President Barack Obama allows it to cross the Canada-U.S. border, carrying tar sands bitumen from Alberta to Nebraska.
The U.S. portion of the Keystone XL pipeline needs no Presidential Permit, Oklahoma, January 2013. (Photo by Laura Borealis / Tar Sands Blockade)
In its...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Keystone XL Pipeline Would Hasten Climate Change: ReportToday: Double Dose of Keystone Pipeline in Congress
Posted by The Hill: Ben Geman and Zack Colman on April 16th, 2013
The Hill: A panel of the GOP-led House Energy and Commerce Committee will mark up legislation that would authorize construction of Keystone.
The bill will almost certainly clear the Energy and Power subcommittee, and then pass through the full committee later this week.
GOP leaders plan to bring the bill to the floor before Memorial Day, Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said recently.
TransCanada Corp.’s project would bring oil from Canadian oil sands projects across the border en...