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Nebraska Keystone pipeline lawsuit thrown out
2015-01-09 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Nebraska's highest court threw out a challenge Friday to a proposed route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, even though a majority of judges agreed the landowners who sued should have won their case. The decision removes a major roadblock for the $7 billion cross-continental project Republicans have vowed to make a key part of their 2015 agenda in Congress. Four judges on the seven-member Nebraska Supreme Court said the landowners should have won their challenge to the 2012 state law that allowed...
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The point of the Keystone fight
2015-01-09 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Josh Green is a smart guy and a great writer, but I think he`s being uncharacteristically dense in his latest column - he`s got the same blind spot on this issue that his friend Jonathan Chait has. The column argues that, whichever side wins or loses, the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has become almost entirely pointless. It`s pointless for the right because, contrary to their rhetoric, it won`t create all that many jobs, reduce the price of gasoline, or boost the economy in any measurable...
Do Plummeting Oil Prices Weaken Case for Keystone Pipeline?
2015-01-09 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Back in September 2008, when a Canadian company first sought U.S. approval to build the Keystone XL pipeline, the United States was the world's third largest oil producer and crude oil prices hovered around $105 per barrel. At that time, Apple was selling the iPhone3, Britney Spears won an MTV award, and George W. Bush was president. Today, in Barack Obama's second term in the White House, Calgary-based TransCanada is still seeking the go-ahead for the northern leg of its controversial Canada-to-U.S....
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Stop what youre doing & watch Elizabeth Warren rip apart Keystone
2015-01-08 22:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Every time Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) opens her mouth, I want to stand up and slow clap. She didn`t let me down at the first Energy Committee hearing of the year, at which Warren cranked open a can of her secret-recipe whoop-ass on the new Republican Congress. This time, it was to announce a snarky yet eloquent "HELL NO" on the subject of the Keystone XL pipeline. Here are a few highlights from her spiel. Warren starts with some real talk on why Republicans want to pass the bill: It`s...
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Senate panel moves Keystone XL pipeline bill forward despite veto threat
2015-01-08 21:20:55| Energy - Topix.net
A bill to approve the Canada-U.S. Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared a key United States Senate committee today. The Energy and Natural Resources committee moved the bill closer to full debate in the Senate by a 13-9 vote.
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