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Native Voices Say No to Keystone XL Pipeline at DC Rally
2015-01-05 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Jan. 3, more than 150 people from as far away as Canada, New Mexico, Virginia and New York gathered in front of the White House in Washington, DC to urge Congress and President Obama to say no to the Keystone XL pipeline. Organizers of the rally felt it was essential to make their voice heard prior to the Keystone XL debate taking center stage as Congress reconvenes this week. On Wednesday, Jan. 7, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on legislation to try and...
Senator Pushes Keystone XL Pipeline with Misleading Job Statistic
2015-01-05 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: As the 113th Congress ends and the 114th Congress begins, at least one thing remains the same: Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline are still using the misleading claim that the controversial project will create 42,000 jobs. Speaking on Meet the Press on Sunday, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) told host Chuck Todd that a bill to approve Keystone XL - the pipeline proposal that would send up to 830,000 barrels of Canadian tar sands oil per day down to Gulf Coast refineries - would be the first legislation...
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Possible outcomes in Nebraska's Keystone decision
2015-01-02 18:09:59| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A TransCanada Keystone Pipeline pump station operates outside Steele City, Nebraska in this March 10, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Lane Hickenbottom/Files Nebraska's Supreme Court could help settle the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline when it decides whether state lawmakers were right to clear the way for the project to help carry oil from Canada's oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Keystone XL Decision Delayed Until 2015
2014-12-27 02:18:25| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The Nebraska Supreme Court will not rule on a legal challenge to the $5.4 billion project's proposed route until next year. This fall, the Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments in three landowners' legal challenge to the $5.4 billion pipeline's proposed route, which runs 1,200 miles from the tar sands in Western Canada to refineries in the Midwest, terminating in Steel City, Nebraska.
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Obama expresses scepticism over Keystone pipeline
2014-12-22 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US President Barack Obama has delivered his most sceptical remarks yet on the future of the Keystone oil pipeline, claiming its controversial extension from Canada to Nebraska would do little to reduce American energy prices and generate only a limited number of US jobs, but could add to the infrastructure costs of climate change. Speaking during an end-of-year press conference just one day after Republicans promised fresh legislation designed to force the projects approval, the president departed...
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