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In Nebraska, Latest Foe of Keystone XL Pipeline is Former Nuclear Waste Site Activist
2013-07-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World-Herald Bureau: A leading opponent of a nuclear waste dump proposed two decades ago in Boyd County has joined the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline. Lowell Fisher, who conducted a high-profile hunger strike against the nuclear dump, wrote a nonbinding resolution, passed Monday by the Boyd County Planning Commission, stating that the county doesn't want the crude-oil pipeline. Fisher, a 72-year-old rancher who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1994, said he had a guilty conscience after initially deciding...
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Keystone Critics Release Report Finding Significant Carbon Rise
2013-07-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Carbon-dioxide emissions caused by the Keystone XL pipeline could be more than four times higher than a draft U.S. analysis found, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council report released today. The NRDC, a New York-based environmental group that opposes the $5.3 billion project to link Albertas oil sands to refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast, says Keystone would add as much as 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon pollution to the atmosphere over 50 years. Thats a much higher rate than estimated...
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Resolution Against Keystone XL Pipeline Fails in York County, Nebraska
2013-07-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Lincoln Journal Star: The chairman of the York County commissioners cast the deciding vote on Tuesday against a resolution sought by opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline. The 3-2 outcome was witnessed by an overflow audience made up mostly of supporters to a statement of opposition to crude oil pipelines. Many of the same people were on hand two weeks ago when Kurt Bulgrin was absent and the four other members of the board were deadlocked. Despite the efforts of the Good Life Alliance since then to recast language...
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Landowners vs. Keystone XL in Eminent Domain Lawsuit
2013-07-22 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bold Nebraska: Three Nebraska landowners will finally see their day in court as the lawsuit they filed against the state is finally moving forward. The suit challenges the constitutionality of the LB 1161 the law used by the state legislature and Gov. Heineman (R-NE) for approving eminent domain and the Keystone XL pipeline route in Nebraska. The State Department must put on hold any review of the pipeline. After multiple attempts at delay by state officials, Nebraska Judge Stacy announced today that the lawsuit...
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TransCanada rebuffs call for clean energy to power Keystone
2013-07-21 14:10:16| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Russ Girling, president and CEO of TransCanada, speaks during the company's annual meeting in Calgary, Alberta on Friday, April 26, 2013.
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