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Mandating a Keystone XL Decision: Another Polluter Ploy that Congress Should Reject
By Tony Iallonardo | NWF
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Polluter lobbyists launched their latest ploy to funnel massive quantities of dirty fuel through the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. It would seem that even though the State Department and President Obama admitted they need more timeto address the project’s considerable problem areas, the industry figures they’ll get a better shake in Congress.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline, congress, lee terry
The Denialists
By Kenny Bruno | Corporate Ethics International
Monday, December 05, 2011
Some creative legislative machinations are being put in service of the Denialists. Senator Lugar of Indiana, who really should know better, has introduced a bill to force the President to decide one way or another on KXL 60 days after the bill passes; yet another attempt to impose an arbitrary deadline on a project for which there is no need and certainly no rush. Representative Lee Terry of Nebraska would one up Senator Lugar and give it just 30 days while also taking the decision out of the President’s hands. And there is talk of attaching this to bills that must be passed in December. These maneuvers show plenty of gamesmanship but produce no jobs and no movement toward a new energy economy.
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Conspiracy theorists’ twisted logic
By David Suzuki
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Who is influencing Canada’s resource priorities? In a puzzling appeal to anti-American sentiment, some industry supporters claim that U.S. foundations are threatening Canadian policy by donating money to environmental groups here. These arguments have appeared in publications such as the Vancouver Sun and Calgary Herald, and on Sun TV.
Tagged with: stephen harper, ethical oil, lobbying, alykhan velshi, david suzuki, ezra levant, sun tv
U.S. and Canadian Tribal leaders draw a line at tar sands
By Danielle Droitsch | NRDC
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
This week, tribal leaders are raising their voices loudly to oppose the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and tars sands development in Canada. Tomorrow, American Indian and Canadian First Nation leaders will announce their opposition to Keystone XL and point to ongoing concerns regarding the effects of the propose pipeline on tribal nations. They intend to bring this message to President Obama on Friday, December 2 as part of the White House Tribal Nations Conference. Meanwhile in Canada, the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations (ACFN), directly affected by tar sands development in Alberta, will be sending a message to the tar sands oil company Shell. The ACFN says that Shell failed to meet agreements with their community to lessen the impacts of tarsands projects on their community. Tribal leaders are drawing a line against tar sands development and pipeline infrastructure. It is time for the U.S. and Canadian decision makers listen.
Tagged with: keystone xl, pipeline, aboriginal
Alberta Innovates report shows study needed to assess corrosivity of tar sands and heavy crude
By Anthony Swift | NRDC
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
A report on pipeline corrosion released by Alberta Innovates recently evaluated evidence of diluted bitumen’s corrosivity relative to conventional crude. The Alberta Innovates report noted that there is no peer reviewed research on this issue, identified gaps in safety data kept by regulators, and found that many of the corrosive properties of diluted bitumen are shared by certain blends of very heavy Canadian crudes. However, the report went one step too far when it assumed that corrosive properties diluted bitumen shares with certain very heavy Canadian crudes do not present increased risks to pipelines. Like diluted bitumen, the production and export in pipelines of large volumes of heavy Canadian crudes is a relatively recent development which has not been accompanied by adequate due diligence on the part of regulators and the industry. The fact that pipelines are moving increasing volumes of unconventional crudes which share some of diluted bitumen’s corrosive characteristics only increases the urgency for appropriate scientific study.
Tagged with: alberta, pipeline safety, bitumen, corrosion, pipelines
Why TransCanada (and others) shouldn’t be surprised by the recent Keystone XL decision
By Liz Barratt-Brown | NRDC
Thursday, November 17, 2011
In 2008, the Canadian company TransCanada proposed a nearly 2,000 mile pipeline that would bisect the heartland of America in order to carry diluted bitumen, raw tar sands diluted with chemicals, to the Gulf Coast ports and refineries. It was a bold proposal, sold to the oil industry as a cheaper way to access the Gulf than the longer route through the Midwest and down from Cushing, Oklahoma. And the Gulf no doubt looked like the grand prize for an industry bullish on its future. If they could get their oil to Texas ports, it could go anywhere in the world. That was the grand plan.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline
Keystone XL decision a reminder the customer is always right
By Simon Dyer | Pembina Institute
Thursday, November 17, 2011
When the dust settles on the U.S. State Department announcement that it is delaying making a decision on the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, it will be interesting to see what — if anything — governments and industry north of the border have learned from the opposition to the pipeline and the oilsands expansion that would be required to fill it. A remarkable couple of years have spawned hundreds of demonstrations, protests and arrests and have united opposition from landowners, First Nations and environmental organizations from across the continent. Together, these actions and events show that the social license of the oilsands industry is tenuous, and that opposition is spreading.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline
Keystone XL tar sands pipeline - Nebraska protects the Sandhills, now let’s protect the climate
By Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, NRDC
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
There were new developments last night in the Keystone XL pipeline campaign with TransCanada giving in to the concerns of the people of Nebraska and conceding to reroute the pipeline away from the Nebraska Sandhills. This is a victory for the people of Nebraska who are so deeply concerned about the health of their cattle, farms, and children. It is amazing what a company can do when the American people tell them “no”. Just a short while ago, TransCanada was threatening to sue Nebraska over the possible rerouting of the pipeline. Now we need TransCanada to listen to the American people tell them “no” to the pipeline as a whole. What Nebraska will see is that there is not safe route for a leaky tar sands pipeline through any of their farms and communities. And what the nation knows is that we can’t fight climate change and build yet another tar sands oil pipeline.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline, natural resources defense council, nebraska
As the Keystone XL pipeline loses its footing, other pipelines face even greater scrutiny
By Danielle Droitsch | NRDC
Friday, November 11, 2011
Yesterday’s announcement by the U.S. State Department to delay the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline process into 2013 will quite possibly spell a “fatal blow” to the project. In reacting to yesterday’s announcement, the Canadian government promised they would immediately pursue Plan B: new pipelines from Alberta to the Canadian west coast in British Columbia. But, in fact, significant hurdles must be overcome to build another tar sands pipeline that may be even greater than what TransCanada faced with Keystone XL.
Tagged with: keystone xl, pipeline, enbridge, northern gateway, natural resources defense council
Hope & Change are Real: I’ve Seen It
By Quentin James | Sierra Student Coaliton
Friday, November 11, 2011
Some people say I have a gambling problem. No, its not that I go and lose hundreds of dollars in casinos, but rather I take too many lofty risks based mostly on hope. An example of this is when I dropped out of school in 2007 to go and work for then Senator Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign. As an African-American male, leaving behind a full scholarship at one of America’s most prestigious private universities wasn’t received well by anyone. In fact, there was even some campaign staff that didn’t think it was a good idea. But I took a risk because for the first time ever, I felt I could make a difference because a politician believed in my generation and me.
Tagged with: keystone xl, pipeline
