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MSNBCs The Ed Show Visits Nebraska to Hear From Those in the Path of Keystone XL Pipeline

2014-02-21 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Today, MSNBC news host Ed Schultz traveled to Nebraska to meet with farmers and ranchers facing threats of eminent domain on their land from TransCanada for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Schultz came to Nebraska to hear firsthand and share with his audience the stories of people in the path of the pipeline. They met at the Build Our Energy Barn, the wind and solar-powered barn that was built with online donations and volunteers on land directly in the path of the proposed Keystone XL. According...

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Court Strikes Down Nebraska Law That Allowed Keystone XL Pipeline

2014-02-20 00:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Omaha World-Herald: A judge has declared unconstitutional a Nebraska law used to reroute the Keystone XL pipeline. Lancaster County District Judge Stephanie Stacy ruled Wednesday that the 2012 law improperly gave the governor authority to approve the pipeline route, said David Domina, an Omaha attorney who represented plaintiffs in the case. He said the ruling doesn't necessarily reset the clock on federal approval of the pipeline. President Barack Obama only has to decide whether to grant a permit to allow the pipeline...

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Native Americans Vow a Last Stand to Block Keystone XL Pipeline

2014-02-17 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

McClatchy: Faith Spotted Eagle figures that building a crude oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast would bring little to Indian Country besides more crime and dirty water, but she doubts that Native Americans will ever get the U.S. government to block the $7 billion project. "There is no way for Native people to say no -- there never has been," said Spotted Eagle, 65, a Yankton Sioux tribal elder from Lake Andes, S.D. "Our history has caused us not to be optimistic. . . . When you have capitalism,...

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12 reasons to reject Keystone XL

2014-02-14 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Rainforest Action Network: Its not a matter of if Keystone XL will spill, but when. Pipelines carrying tar sands have a horrible track record. In early 2013, 80,000 gallons of tar sands crude devastated a residential neighborhood in Mayflower, AK. And 2010 saw the worst oil spill in Michigan State history when a tar sands pipeline spilled 900,000 gallons into the Kalamazoo River. TransCanada, the company building Keystone XL, might have the worst record of any pipeline company. Its Keystone 1 pipeline, the predecessor...

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