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Tar sands expansion conflicts with official US policy objective to address climate change
By Jake Schmidt | NRDC
Friday, September 23, 2011
When President Obama came into office he promised US leadership on global warming policy. Before Obama was inaugurated he said: “My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change…” Will that promised new chapter lead to a rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring tar sands from Canada through the US. While focus will still be aimed at the fatally flawed “environmental impact assessment” conducted by the State Department, President Obama will now have to make another decision: whether the pipeline is in the national interest of the US (the so-called “national interest determination”). While this determination is a bit vague, it is clear that this pipeline is not in the national interest since it undercuts a major US policy objective of addressing climate change. (And there are other reasons why this is clearly not in the US national interest).
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Condemn Keystone XL Pipeline for Dirty Tar Sands
By Frances Beinecke | NRDC
Monday, September 19, 2011
Recently nine Nobel Peace Prize Winners wrote a letter to President Obama urging him to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas. Today NRDC and the Nobel Women’s Initiative are running an ad in the Washington Post featuring the full text of the letter and its powerful message.
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Nebraska Cornhuskers Banish Keystone XL Pipeline Ads from Hallowed Memorial Stadium
By Josh Mogerman | NRDC
Thursday, September 15, 2011
To most Husker fans, football is something akin to religion. And Memorial Stadium in Lincoln is their church. It is a place to go with single-minded fervor. A place to focus on football. And to many, it was a place defiled at a game earlier this month. Here is how the Lincoln Journal Star describes it:
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Cornell Global Labor Institute report shows Keystone XL pipeline is not path to energy security
By Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, NRDC
Thursday, September 08, 2011
This evening, President Obama spoke to the nation about jobs and confirmed that he will not let the economic crisis be used to roll back environmental protections. Hopefully that commitment can translate into increased incentives for clean energy jobs and push back against dirty energy claims that we need to sacrifice our health and environment for jobs. Today, a new report by the Cornell Global Labor Institute made it clear that the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not provide the job and economic security that its proponents have been claiming. Clean energy jobs are the real long-term, secure jobs choice, not dirty energy such as tar sands.
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Keystone XL a Job Killer, Says Cornell
By Tony Iallonardo | NWF
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Echoing some of our previous posts, the Cornell Global Labor Institute has just released it’s analysis of the job impacts from the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Their take? It will kill more jobs than it creates.
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Energy Secretary Makes the Wrong Decision on Keystone XL
By Sierra Club
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently followed the State Department's lead, saying that the Keystone XL is "not perfect, but it's a trade off," despite the emphatic thumbs down from the Environmental Protection Agency -- not to mention the fact that it would threaten the water supply of millions of Americans and a cause a major setback to long-term U.S. and Canadian carbon emissions. To say this is a disappointment is an understatement.
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Keystone XL tar sands pipeline review makes light of concerns about damage to climate, health, water
By Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, NRDC
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
In late August, the State Department issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (Keystone XL). There is ample evidence that Keystone XL will cause an increase in tar sands oil extraction and the significant harm to climate, wildlife, water and health that come from tar sands strip mining and drilling. The pipeline project will also risk health and safety in the United States through oil spills and water and air pollution. Despite this, the State Department incorrectly found “no significant impact” in their environmental review. The environmental assessment makes several fundamental flaws in their analysis that has led to the illogical conclusion that Keystone XL would not cause significant air, land, and water pollution. In fact, the Keystone XL project will have a significant impact on the environment and public health and is not worth the risks.
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Nine Nobel Laureates urge President to deny permit for tar sands pipeline
By Liz Barratt-Brown | NRDC
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
“It is your decision to make” That is how the strongly worded letter to the President from nine Nobel Laureates starts. The letter urges the President to deny the permit for a massive tar sands pipeline that would run from Alberta to Texas and over one of the nation’s largest fresh water aquifers. The letter continues:
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Keystone XL tar sands pipeline makes history as more than 1000 arrested in protest at White House
By Liz Barratt-Brown | NRDC
Friday, September 02, 2011
The protests have marked a watershed for the environmental community and for civil disobedience as a powerful democratic tool. The number of citizens arrested engaging in peaceful sit-ins at the White House tipped to over 1,000 in the next to last day of the protests. The collective message to the President is that Americans want a secure future – one in which we don’t destroy our lands, pollute our waters and air, and poison communities – to make our energy. A future in which we build-up our communities and increase ecosystem resilience, not tear them down. A future in which we harness energy from the wind and the sun using American know how and technology instead of scraping the bottom of the barrel for our energy. As James Hansen, the President’s chief climatologist said earlier this week before being arrested, we want to find a leader big enough to help us realize our dreams.
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Nebraska Governor Tells Feds Keystone XL Route Unsafe
By Tony Iallonardo | NWF
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route is unsafe, and the federal government’s environmental risk analysis is wrongly optimistic. That’s the assessment of Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman who today sent a letter to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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