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TransCanada Files Lawsuit to Stop Keystone Pipeline Protests
2013-05-12 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Oklahoman: Energy infrastructure company TransCanada has asked an Oklahoma judge to help keep protesters away from its pipeline construction sites. The company is building a 485-mile oil pipeline between Cushing's storage hub and refineries along the Gulf Coast. The project is part of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which is awaiting approval from the Obama administration to cross the U.S.-Canada border. The 1,179-mile pipeline would carry oil from Canada and North Dakota through Cushing to the...
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Decision on Keystone XL Pipeline Seen Dragging Past Summer
2013-05-11 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Obama administration is unlikely to make a decision on the Canada-to-Nebraska Keystone XL pipeline until late this year as it painstakingly weighs the project's impact on the environment and on energy security, a U.S. official and analysts said on Friday. The decision may not be made until November, December or even early 2014, said a U.S. official, as President Barack Obama will not rush the process, which still has a number of stages to work through. One of those stages has not even begun...
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150 Major Democratic Donors Urge Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline
2013-05-10 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In the latest show of force by opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, a group of 150 major Democratic donors sent a letter Friday to President Obama, urging him to reject the controversial application from TransCanada for permission to send more than 800,000 barrels of tar sands oil a day from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast. The signatories comprise business leaders, philanthropists and celebritiesincluding clean energy entrepreneurs Vinod Khosla, Jigar Shah and Steve Kirsch, long-time Obama bundler...
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Keystone XL: Obama urged by Democrat backers to reject pipeline
2013-05-10 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The biggest backers of the Democratic causes urged Barack Obama on Friday to take historic action on climate change by rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. In a letter seen by the Guardian, 150 high-profile figures, who between them raised millions for Obama's two election campaigns, urged the president to use the next four years to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. "Yours is the last presidency in which it is possible for America to choose a responsible path forward for...
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Rep. Griffin Wants Exxon Pipeline Relocated, but Keystone Is a 'No-Brainer'
2013-05-09 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Rep. Tim Griffin, a staunch supporter of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, recently asked ExxonMobil to move another, smaller oil pipeline away from a major water source in his home state of Arkansas. It's a contradiction that grates on opponents of the Keystone, which would run through a critically important aquifer that supplies irrigation and drinking water to Nebraska and seven other states. "What's good for Arkansas is good for Nebraska," anti-Keystone activist Jane Kleeb said in an email....
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