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Tag: Keystone Xl Pipeline
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
Why take a look at the history of gay rights in the context of the climate struggle? Because the hardest part of the Keystone pipeline fight has been figuring out what to do about the Democrats.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The test of President Obama’s seriousness about addressing climate change is not his pending decision on the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline. It’s whether he effectively consigns coal-fired power plants—one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions—to the ashcan of history.
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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Organizers of Sunday’s “Forward on Climate” rally and march claim the estimated 35,000 activists who descended on Washington, D.C., to demand the Obama administration take action on the critical issue of global warming constitute the largest turnout ever for a climate rally.
Posted on Feb 17, 2013
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
In the near future, President Obama is expected to give construction on the Keystone XL pipeline a definitive thumbs up or thumbs down. The decision he makes could determine the fate of the Canadian tar-sands industry and, with it, the future well-being of the planet. If that sounds overly dramatic, let me explain.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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AP/Evan Vucci
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It turns out that Susan Rice, President Obama’s apparent favorite for the next secretary of state, has financial investments in more than a dozen Canadian oil companies and banks that stand to profit from the growth of the North American tar sands industry and the operation of the proposed multibillion-dollar Keystone XL pipeline.
Posted on Nov 30, 2012
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
There is no debate on climate change in Germany, where architects of the clean energy movement estimate that from 80 percent to 100 percent of the country’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2050.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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The Green Party candidate was detained by authorities and charged with criminal trespassing Wednesday after she tried to deliver supplies to demonstrators in Texas.
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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AP/Nati Harnik
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By Chris Hedges — The planned route of this six-state, 1,700-mile proposed pipeline is fast becoming a flashpoint in the war of attrition against the corporate state.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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AP / Carolyn Kaster
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By Chris Hedges — It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable, but that was the old Canada.
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Media Matters
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Media Matters turned its bias detectors on the corporate media’s coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas oil way that the Obama administration put on hold last week. The analysis found that in all mediums, pipeline supporters got more talk time than their opponents, and counted the ways reporters parroted industry’s talking points.
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By Amy Goodman — The White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, but by the protests mounting outside its gates.
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