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Keystone fought by Nebraska landowners vowing to block
2013-04-17 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Bob Allpress describes himself as a redneck Republican. Standing on the pasture behind his Nebraska home, the burly former Marine Corps sergeant with a Fu Manchu mustache explains what made him an environmental activist. The Keystone XL pipeline, which TransCanada Corp. (TRP) wants to build to bring Albertas oil sands to refineries on the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico, would cut across the 900 acres near Naper, Nebraska, that Allpresss grandfather acquired by homestead in 1886. He is vowing...
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Keystone XL pipeline: Could Congress bypass Obama to get it built?
2013-04-17 06:14:15| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Coated steel pipe is stored in Little Rock, Ark. Congress has previously tried to approve the Keystone XL pipeline by shifting permitting authority to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or Congress.
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Keystone Opponents Deepen Criticism of Proposed Pipeline
2013-04-16 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Two new reports, put out by a cross-section of U.S. environmental and public interest groups, are attacking central rationales for the construction of a major new Canada-U.S. oil pipeline proposal, which has emerged as an emblematic cause for green groups who have angrily denounced a U.S. government approvals process. A new study released Tuesday by eight of the country's most established environmental advocacy groups suggests that U.S. regulators have massively underestimated the proposal's environmental...
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Keystone XL Pipeline Would Hasten Climate Change: Report
2013-04-16 22:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: In a new report, "Cooking the Books: How The State Department Analysis Ignores the True Climate Impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline," environmental groups and scientists opposed to the pipeline warn of "climate disaster" if President Barack Obama allows it to cross the Canada-U.S. border, carrying tar sands bitumen from Alberta to Nebraska. The U.S. portion of the Keystone XL pipeline needs no Presidential Permit, Oklahoma, January 2013. (Photo by Laura Borealis / Tar Sands Blockade) In its...
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Cooking the Books: State Department Ignores True Climate Impact of Keystone XL Pipeline
2013-04-16 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new report out today from environmental groups--Oil Change International, Natural Resources Defense Council, 350.org, Environment America, National Wildlife Federation, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Greenpeace--shows that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would, if approved, be responsible for at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars or 51 coal-fired power plants. In documenting...
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