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Eminent Domain Fight Has a Canadian Twist
News Articles Featured | New York Times | Monday, October 17, 2011
A Canadian company has been threatening to confiscate private land from South Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico, and is already suing many who have refused to allow the Keystone XL pipeline on their property even though the controversial project has yet to receive federal approval.
Companies use fuzzy math in job claims; candidates still buy in
News Articles Featured | Washington Post | Friday, October 14, 2011
In an ad that has blanketed radio airwaves in the Washington region, a woman’s voice gently intones, “Imagine . . . one million new jobs.”
Slippery pipeline: The Keystone XL project deserves closer scrutiny
News Articles Featured | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Friday, October 14, 2011
The question of whether the United States should permit the construction of a 1,700-mile pipeline across the middle of the country to permit the transport of crude oil from Canada to Texas is complicated enough already.
Canada’s Environment Succumbs to Oil Sands
News Articles Featured | Spiegel | Friday, October 14, 2011
"I cried when I heard that," says Harpe, the elder of the Cree First Nation community based in Fort MacKay in the Canadian province of Alberta. "That's where I was born."
Why Keystone XL is not in the national interest
News Articles Featured | The Hill | Thursday, October 13, 2011
Pressure is building on the Obama administration to reach a final decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The State Department seems to be siding with backers of the project. The favorable environmental impact statement it has just released does not wholly dispel the reservations of the EPA and private environmental groups, but it carries political weight. Still, before construction can begin, the pipeline needs a finding that it is in the national interest. It is not.
“Oil Orgy” invades Energy Summit
Media Releases Featured | UK Tar Sands Network Press Release | Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Protesters interrupted the Canada-Europe Energy Round table [1] in London today, to expose the UK government’s opposition to European legislation, which would label tar sands oil as highly polluting. The campaigners stripped down to Union Jack boxers and maple leaf underwear and covered each other with oil while kissing and groping in a provocative ‘oil orgy’ [2].
Pipeline Review Is Faced With Question of Conflict
News Articles Featured | New York Times | Friday, October 07, 2011
The State Department assigned an important environmental impact study of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to a company with financial ties to the pipeline operator, flouting the intent of a federal law meant to ensure an impartial environmental analysis of major projects.
Keystone XL: The wrong question
News Articles Featured | LA Times | Thursday, October 06, 2011
The question of whether to build an oil pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Texas is turning out to be one of the most important political decisions of the year for the Obama administration. It's an agonizing choice because the costs and benefits of building it are so closely balanced; opponents have overstated the environmental risks, and proponents seem oblivious to the consequences of continuing to feed our nation's oil addiction.
Koch Subsidiary Told Regulators It Has ‘Direct and Substantial Interest’ in Keystone XL
News Articles Featured | Reuters | Wednesday, October 05, 2011
In recent months Koch Industries Inc., the business conglomerate run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has repeatedly told a U.S. Congressional committee and the news media that the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline has "nothing to do with any of our businesses." But the company has told Canadian energy regulators a different story.
Conservation groups sue to stop groundwork on Keystone pipeline
News Articles Featured | Globe and Mail | Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Three conservation groups are suing to halt preliminary work on a proposed 2,730-kilometre long oil pipeline from the tar sands of western Canada to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
Environmental groups target Democratic lobbyists on Canadian oil pipeline
News Articles Featured | Washington Post | Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Environmental groups are demanding more public documents from the State Department about a controversial oil pipeline that will cross the U.S.-Canada border, seeking information on half a dozen lobbyists and their firms connected to the Obama administration.
Keystone XL: More about the politics than the petroleum
News Articles Featured | Globe and Mail | Wednesday, October 05, 2011
For months, the stars seemed pretty well aligned for the Keystone XL pipeline, the proposed $7-billion megaproject that would carry oil-sands crude from Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico coast in Texas.
