In a move that environmental activists and local landowners hope puts another nail in the Keystone XL coffin, pipeline giant TransCanada announced Tuesday it will withdraw lawsuits seeking to gain access to the property of landowners who oppose the project. The pipeline giant said it was switching course and would file an application with the Nebraska […]
Once viewed by those in the fossil fuel industry as one of their brightest hopes for more big profits, tar sands extraction is looking riskier and costlier. Opposition to Keystone XL and other tar sands-related projects has cost the industry dearly. Photo credit: Shutterstock As Republicans in the U.S. continue to look for ways to […]
The largest lease holder in Canada’s oil sands is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the conglomerate that is the source of the fortune owned by the controversial conservative political donors, Charles and David Koch. The Alberta, Canada, tar sands operations. Photo credit: Occupy.com The Koch’s holdings in the tar sands were disclosed by Koch Cash, an activist […]
As Alberta Premier Alison Redford heads to Washington D.C. this week to push U.S. officials on the Keystone XL project, a coalition of Canadian environmental groups wrote a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to consider the impacts of tar sands production on human health and the environment, as well as the failures by […]
Waging Nonviolence By Jeremy Brecher Two years ago I was among more than a thousand people who committed civil disobedience at the White House to oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline. Since then many more have been arrested around the country, often blocking the actual pathway along which the Keystone XL is being […]
EcoWatch By Laura Beans Food & Water Watch released a report last month detailing lax laws and regulations, such as the controversial clause of eminent domain, that benefit oil and gas companies trying to seize private land to extract or transport fossil fuels. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), eminent […]
EcoWatch By Lauren Berlekamp Today marks the three year anniversary of when Enbridge’s tar sands pipeline spilled more than a million gallons of bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. This incident stands as America’s longest-running and most expensive oil cleanup project as state authorities and Enbridge continue their attempts to remove the heavy oil […]
Greenpeace By Cassady Sharp The same law that contributed to George Zimmerman walking free out of a Florida courtroom last weekend after taking the life of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was primarily written by the same super lobbying group behind legislation protecting natural gas companies from disclosing chemicals used in fracking. The American Legislative Exchange Council, […]
People’s World By Juan Lopez 350BayArea.org, joined by local groups and unions, last week announced plans for a massive protest Aug. 3 at California’s Chevron Richmond oil refinery. Smoke from the Chevron refinery explosion spreads across the bay. Photo by Drew Dellinger, a bay area resident. The largest greenhouse gas polluter in the state, Chevron, […]
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