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Breaking: Pres Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline
2015-11-06 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: We just made history together. Four years to the day after we surrounded the White House, President Obama has rejected the Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline! This is huge. A head of state has never rejected a major fossil fuel project because of its climate impacts before. The President`s decision sets the standard for what climate action looks like: standing up to the fossil fuel industry and keeping fossil fuels in the ground. BREAKING: President Obama has REJECTED...
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The 7 things you need to know now about the Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-06 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: 1) President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline on Nov. 6. Obama positioned America as a global leader on climate change and said approving the project would undercut that leadership: "If we`re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we`re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them." This is the real decision weve all been waiting for. (You might have heard that Obama vetoed the...
Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline on climate grounds
2015-11-06 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: US president Barack Obama is to reject plans for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, weeks ahead of a UN climate summit in Paris. The 1,179 mile long pipeline would have carried high-carbon tar sands oil from Canada to the US gulf coast and was fiercely opposed by green groups. "This morning secretary [of state] Kerry told me after extensive outreach the Keystone pipeline would not serve the national interests of the US," Obama said in a White House statement, flanked by Kerry and vice...
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Obama administration to reject Canada-to-U.S Keystone pipeline: source
2015-11-06 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama on Friday rejected the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada in a victory for environmentalists who campaigned against the project for more than seven years. "The pipeline would not make a meaningful long-term contribution to our economy," Obama told a press conference. He said it would not reduce gasoline prices, and shipping "dirtier" crude from Canada would not increase U.S. energy security. The denial of TransCanada Corp's more than 800,000 barrels per day...
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Full of hors d'oeuvres, hungry for pipeline answers
2015-11-06 16:56:27| Apparel - Topix.net
Glossy display boards with information about compressor stations and natural-gas pressurization lined the event room at Four Oaks Country Club on Thursday night. Servers walked among the crowd with plates of Swedish meatballs, quesadillas, and chicken fingers, provided courtesy of Kinder Morgan, while two dozen representatives from the company in blue polo shirts stood next to large maps of the proposed pipeline and fielded questions from more than 100 residents of Dracut and surrounding communities.
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