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Canada railways split on crude as Keystone ruling looms
2013-06-23 14:06:51| Railroads - Topix.net
Canadian National Railway sees "tremendous" growth in shipping oil by train. Hunter Harrison, who runs its biggest rival, says he isn't so sure as he looks at potential pipeline competition.
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Keystone XL Export Pipeline: Bad for Americans, Bad for the Economy
2013-06-20 19:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The core talking points for the supporters of TransCanada`s Keystone XL pipeline center around U.S. domestic energy security and economic growth. However, Keystone is an "export pipeline" that will take tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, and pump it down to a tax-free zone in Texas and out to foreign markets. In other words, the European Union, China and Latin America get the oil, the foreign-owned oil companies get the cash and North Americans get a few jobs and oil spills! It`s a complicated...
Billionaire Steyer Rejects Trade With Obama on Keystone
2013-06-20 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obamas adoption of measures to combat climate change shouldnt be seen as a trade off for approving the Keystone XL pipeline, a top donor to his re-election campaign said. Hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer unveiled a social-media campaign today meant to organize supporters and pressure the president to reject the pipeline, which would carry oil sands from Alberta to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. Steyer hired a former Obama campaign digital producer, Tara McGowan, to help...
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Al Gore, raising the heat on Obama, calls Keystone an atrocity
2013-06-17 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another, this whole Keystone XL thing is an "atrocity." Al Gore has been calling on Barack Obama to step up the fight against climate change and Keystone, most recently during an interview with The Guardian: The former vice-president said in an interview on Friday that he hoped Obama would follow the example of British Columbia, which last week rejected a similar pipeline project, and shut down the Keystone XL. "I certainly hope that he will veto that now that...
Obamas Keystone Silence Is Driving Green-Activists Away
2013-06-16 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Wendy Abrams opportunity came in the photo line. As she stepped up to take her picture with President Barack Obama during a fundraiser last month in Chicago, she made her pitch: How could a president who vowed to tackle climate change possibly approve the Keystone XL pipeline? Obama, she recalled, told her that environmental activists are too focused on the $5.3 billion Keystone project and promised shed be pleased with his proposals on climate change later this summer. I was really depressed,...
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