Tag: Tar Sands
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Ol' Keystone XL Will Raise Gas Prices After All: New Report
Wasn't this thing supposed to lower gas prices and create like 10 million jobs?
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Koch Bros Half Century of Dirty Tar Sands Support Uncovered
Inside Climate News has pulled back the curtain on just how extensive the Koch Brothers have been in the Canadian tar sands industry. It's well worth a read.
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Lessons for the USA in Alberta Election: People Don't Like Extremism, Even In Conservative Territory
Cities, Centrists and undecideds run from party tainted by homophobia, racism and climate skepticism
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GOP Slaps Keystone XL Onto (Another) Transportation Bill, Obama Threatens Veto
The GOP is, once again, trying to slap a measure approving their favorite pipeline into unrelated transportation legislation. Obama says he'll veto if they do.
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Selfish is the New Green
Because nothing says green like a pair of bikes on the roof of a Porsche Panamera.
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The Keystone XL is Back on the Menu. Again.
House Republicans orchestrate yet another effort to pass the 1,700 mile tar sands pipeline.
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Energy News: Cape Wind Will Lower Electricity Rates; Japan's Residential Solar Soars; More
Beyond the headline: Pennsylvania towns challenge fracking being shoved down their throats; BP looks to the Amazon for more oil; Alberta, Canada's oil rush shortchanges locals. Keep reading for the details.
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Best of Green: Energy
Whlle TreeHugger has covered energy issues since its founding, Energy as a Best of Green category is new for 2012. Find out the best energy project, energy ambassador, activist group, and more.
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Gas Prices In Canada Hitting Record Highs, US$ 5.68 per Gallon, And They Can't Blame Obama
High gas prices are a result of high demand, period. You don't want a repeat of what happened the last time they were low.
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Political Theater Alert: Obama "Fast Tracks" Half of Keystone XL
During a stop in Oklahoma on a tour intended to promote his energy policies, Obama announced that he'll issue an executive order to fast-track the southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Energy
Who are the best ambassadors for clean energy, energy industry innovators, activists, and more? Vote here.
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For Like the Hundredth Time, GOP Tries to Approve Keystone XL
The GOP is trying yet again to pass a measure overruling the President's dismissal of Keystone XL, and to approve the 1,700 mile pipeline without an environmental review.
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Tar Sands Industry Claims About Restoring Ecosystems Just Greenwashing, New Report Says
New research in Proceedings and of the National Academy of Sciences claims that peat swamps destroyed by tar sands mining can never be fully restored.
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Senate Rejects Keystone XL 56-42
A majority vote in the Senate killed the proposal to approve the tar sands pipeline.
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Senate to Take Up Keystone XL Today, Obama Urges Dems to Vote 'No'
An amendment that would approve the tar sands pipeline is headed for the Senate today.
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Energy News: Lakota Activists Arrested Blocking Tar Sands Trucks, Plus US Boosts Wind Power Support
No one ever said the transition from dirty fossil fuels to renewable energy would be swift, neat, or orderly.
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Canadian Government Attempted "Myth Busting" Tar Sands' Image in Europe
Not quite Wikileaks-scale revelations here, but it is interesting to peek behind the curtain to glimpse the politico-media blitz undertaken by the Canadian government to support the tar sands.
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Mitt Romney: I Would Approve Keystone XL "On Day One"
The presidential contender pens an op-ed in The Columbus Dispatch, and it's full of half-truths and terrible ideas.
