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Heres what you can fight now that Keystone XL is dead
2015-11-13 18:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: So the president rejected the permit for Keystone XL (well, the northern part of it, anyway). And there was much rejoicing, especially on the interwebs. "THOU HAST NOT EATEN BALONEY SANDWICHES BEHIND BARS IN VAIN, DEAR COMRADE!" wrote Rebecca Solnit on Facebook to nature writer Christopher Shaw, who was one of the 70 KXL protestors who spent three days in D.C.`s Central Cell Block in August of 2011. "THANK YOU!" KXL was the training ground for a generation of activists - from the young college...
Abbreviated pundit round-up: Dying white working class; troops to Syria, no to Keystone XL
2015-11-09 14:39:30| Chemicals - Topix.net
Gar Alperovitz-a political economy professor at the University of Mayland, historian and author of numerous books on the topic of corporate capitalism's increasingly conspicuous pitfalls-is a well-known voice in the national discussion. He believes that the path to both greater income equality and ecological sustainability must begin with the democratization of ownership.
When We Fight, We Fuck Shit Up: Keystone XL and Delegitimizing Fossil Fuels
2015-11-09 12:14:11| Energy - Topix.net
"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behavior."
Death of Keystone XL an XL lift for Obama?
2015-11-08 00:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously fight global warming. Now that he has killed the project, Obama is holding it up as Exhibit A as he works to lock in his environmental legacy with a powerful international climate accord. Rejecting Keystone, the proposed 1,179-mile crude-oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S., was the latest in a long and growing list of steps Obama has taken...
Climate awareness and the economy influenced Obama's rejection of Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-07 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: When a Canadian company first proposed building the Keystone XL oil pipeline in 2008, Barack Obama was a presidential candidate running to end wars, climate change was a fringe issue to many people and the nation was entering a devastating recession that would send the unemployment rate soaring to 10%. But the politics of climate and oil shifted dramatically in the intervening years, and President Obama's announcement Friday that the controversial pipeline through the U.S. heartland "would not...
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