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 State Department [...]
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Joe Biden Says He Opposes KXL, But is in Administration “Minority” [Video]
According to a Buzzfeed report, VP Joe Biden told an environmental activist in South Carolina that he opposes KXL, TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline, but in the Obama administration, he’s in the minority. Biden made the remark at Rep. Jim Clyburn’s annual ‘World Famous Fish Fry’ Friday evening, where he met Elaine Cooper, a Columbia resident [...]
Mark Zuckerberg Backs Keystone XL, Facebook Bans Anti-KXL Campaign
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and FWD.us (political action group) founder, supports the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. And when a CREDO petition calling on Zuckerberg to pull support for ads promoting KXL appeared on Facebook, that CREDO effort was removed, apparently for use of Zuckerberg’s photo. From CREDO: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg started a new [...]
Keystone XL: EPA Challenges State Dept. Impact Statement
The State Department’s draft environmental impact statement regarding TransCanada’s Keystone XL is challenged by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EcoWatch reports that the EPA based its challenge to State’s environmental impact statement, … objecting to its conclusion that the Keystone XL presents no significant climate change impact or environment risk. This criticism raises an important [...]
Keystone and Pegasus: Not in My Backyard or Water [VIDEO]
Understandably, no one wants the contents of an oil spill in their backyard, including in their water supply. But of course, even when there’s a local win, and a petroleum pipeline, for example, is denied construction in one community’s “backyard,” it’s likely going to be relocated into the backyard of someone else. One key factor [...]
Obama Says Environmental Politics Are “Tough,” But a Backyard Covered in Crude Oil is Tougher
President Obama told a group of California donors that the politics of the environment “are tough.” No doubt. But I’ll bet if your backyard was covered in crude oil, that would be even “tougher.” The photo is of such a backyard in Mayflower, Arkansas, the result of break in the Exxon Pegasus Pipeline. The NY [...]
Why Obama Can Safely Support KXL: PEW Poll Shows Broad Public Support (VIDEO)
It would be more accurate to talk about why Obama, and Electeds at every level, can very frequently and very safely support Big Petroleum in general, but at this moment, the focus is largely on TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline. It will carry “tar sands” petroleum from Canada to the Texas Gulf coast. Yesterday PEW released a [...]
KXL Pipeline, State’s “Study” and Minnesota’s 30,000 Gallon Tar Sands Spill
Short version: TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline is under construction. The related study and report by the State Department was outsourced to a consulting firm with ties to TransCanada. A couple of days ago there was a tar sands spill when a train derailed in Minnesota. When the content is toxic, any spill – from train, [...]
State Dept. Late Friday Draft Release Clears Keystone XL Pipeline Construction
“You know the news is bad when it comes out at 4 PM on Friday.” – Michael Brune, Sierra Club The Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Keystone XL pipeline’s route was released just a few weeks after about 35,000 people gathered in DC to urge the project not be built, and after several [...]
Environmental Protection Provided by Keystone (Pipeline) Cops
The Keystone XL Pipeline and the effort of activists to stop it are significant for many reasons. I’ve written about this frequently, especially the grassroots efforts of Tar Sands Blockade, and recently, about the Forward On Climate Change event in DC last weekend, with approximately 40,000 people participating. Now, I want to focus some of [...]
Obama’s Decision on Keystone XL and His Response to Climate Change
There’s nothing unusual about politicians and Electeds saying one thing and doing another. It’s a bipartisan thing. We the Electorate are so accustomed to it that it’s a shock when actions actually follow the words spoken. Regarding Mr. Obama’s strong inaugural speech section related to climate change, we’ll soon have one indication of how closely [...]
Interview — Tar Sands Blockader Grace Cagle: The “Path of This Pipeline is Like a Map of Power and Poverty”
Grace Cagle is a 22 year old, from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. She tells me she doesn’t consider herself an activist, but “a person aware of the injustices in this society who is willing and privileged enough to be able to resist those creating injustice.” That’s what she did a few weeks ago, when she [...]
BREAKING: Construction of KXL Section Halted by Judge Over Landowner’s Fraud Claim
From Tar Sands Blockade: Mike Bishop has won a temporary restraining order against TransCanada A judge ordered TransCanada to halt construction on Mr. Bishop’s land until a hearing on December 19th. If successful, that hearing could lead to a more long term temporary injunction against TransCanada which could stop work for months! Here’s a brief [...]
Tar Sands Blockaders Barricade Themselves Inside Keystone XL Pipe
From Tar Sands Blockade: Several protestors with Tar Sands Blockade sealed themselves inside a section of pipe destined for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to stop construction of the dangerous project. Using a blockading technique never implemented before, Matt Almonte and Glen Collins locked themselves between two barrels of concrete weighing over six hundred [...]
Chasing Ice: Going Over the Climate Change Cliff Looks Like This (VIDEO)
Human beings seem to have an infinite capacity to accept word spins and tricks and diversions, like “fiscal cliff,” for example, while having an equally unlimited capacity to turn facts into fantasies and myths, like “climate change.” I think it has something to do with comfort zones, not wanting to take responsibility for needed changes, [...]
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