Tag: Tar Sands - Page 9
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Keystone XL Pipeline Won't 'Play Any Substantial Role' In Putting Americans Back To Work: Cornell Univ. Study
A new report by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute echoes what opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have been saying on jobs and energy security: The jobs claims are overstated and the energy security arguments
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Live Now: Hundreds Risk Arrest at Ottawa Action To Sit-in Against Big Oil, Tar Sands
History is being made right now in Ottawa, Canada as hundreds of people from across North America are risking arrest on Parliament Hill during a mass civil disobedience sit-in to protest tar sands development. The people will come in waves of 20 to
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Seven Democratic National Committee Members Urge President to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline
It's not just thousands of protestors (a small fraction of whom are pictured above), prominent scientists, nobel laureates, and the Dalai Lama who are urging President Obama to
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Pot Calls Kettle Black: Saudi Government Sues Over Canadian Ethical Oil Ads
Those clever shills for the tar sands industry, EthicalOil.org, have been running ads on the Oprah Winfrey Show and other networks that claim that by buying Saudi oil, "We've bankrolled a state that doesn't allow women to drive and that doesn't allow
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Canadian Celebrities Support Ottawa Action Over Tar Sands
Where will you be on Sunday, Sept. 26? If you're anywhere near Ottawa, you might consider coming to the Ottawa Action, a peaceful civil disobedience about the tar sands planned by the Council of Canadians, Greenpeace Canada,
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Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Protest About Tar Sands or Politics?
Hundreds have been arrested at the White House in the protest against the Keystone XL pipeline. James Hansen has said "it's essentially game over" if it is built. But today Energy
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State Department Says Keystone XL Will Have Little Environmental Impact - Campaigners Disagree
As protesters continue their civil disobedience outside the White House (pictured above), and getting arrested by the score each day, the State Department has taken a further step towards approving the
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Canadian Activist Arrested at White House Protest Tells Her Story
Patricia Warwick, in red, being handcuffed. Images credit Tar Sands Action Canadian activist Patricia Warwick fights climate change at Climate Action Now and went to Washington for the Keystone XL protest. She tells TreeHugger about her experience in
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Nation's Largest Environmental Organization Leaders Unite Opposing Keystone XL Pipeline
275 people have been arrested so far outside the White House, protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and there are ten days to go. Now, the protestors have gained some additional support, in the form of the leaders of some of the US' biggest
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New York Times Editorial Comes Out Against Keystone XL Pipeline
Some added encouragement for all those people protesting outside the White House against the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline over the next couple weeks: The latest New York Times editorial comes out strongly against the pipeline, urging the
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Keystone XL Pipeline "Voluntary" Safety Measures Actually Minimum Required By Law
Daily protest against the pipeline will take place outside the White House for the next two weeks. At the time of this writing, over 100 people have been arrested. Photo: Milan Ilnyckji for Tar Sands Action/CC BY NRDC pokes some big holes in the claims
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Canada's Increasing Tar Sands Emissions Will Cancel Out Carbon Cuts Elsewhere
A new report from Canada's environment ministry shows that emissions from expanding tar sands production and use will double by 2020 and will overwhelm emission cuts in energy production elsewhere. This will entirely
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U.S. Chamber Launches Effort To Support Bringing Dirty Tar Sands Oil Down South
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has long served as a brake on progress when it comes to creating a new economy that is fueled by renewable energy. The secretive organization (it doesn't reveal its membership) has opposed
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Democratic Leaders Excoriate Congressional Republicans, Say This is the "Most Anti-environment House in the History of Congress"
Many greens, including me, had big problems with Waxman-Markey, the failed cap and trade bill that would have finally priced carbon but also given a lifeline to the coal industry. Whatever your feelings for the bill,
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Seven Senators Write To Clinton To Warn Against Proposed Massive 1,700 Mile Pipeline
This July, the heat is being turned up on TransCanada, the Canadian corporation vying for the right to build a 1,700 mile pipeline, known as the Keystone XL, through the US all the way to the Gulf. The wind might finally be
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Hats For Kate Demonstrate The Best of Canada Today
Images credit Environmental Defence Emma usually covers the fashion beat, but Will and Kate are visiting Canada, and Environmental Defence is hitting the runways with a series of hats that describe Canada today, a very different place from when Chuck
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Critics Respond To Canadian Government's Shilling of Tar Sands as "Ethical Oil"
The comments came fast and furious to Canada's New Environment Minister's Job: Shill The Tar Sands as "Ethical Oil", some in particular found Andrew Nikiforuk's criticism of the term to be a bit over the top. Now cooler heads have added their opinions,
