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Arctic Drilling and Tar Sands: Two Faces of Extreme Oil Extraction
By Mark Worthing If you thought that British Petroleum’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was a horrific disaster, imagine that under meters of ice in waters only navigable for four months of the year....
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Students: The World Needs You – Apply for the Greenpeace Semester
APPLY FOR THE GREENPEACE SEMESTER! Me, on a decommissioned Duke/Progress Energy smokestack (see picture below). Arden, NC. Feb, 2012. As humans, we sometimes find ourselves in positions that change the...
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Keystone XL report makes Obama Administration look Gutless on Climate
Don't worry. The U.S. State Department is okay with encouraging tar sands mining like this. The U.S. State Department released its draft environmental assessment of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline...
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If the tar sands spilling from Exxon’s Arkansas pipeline isn’t oil, then what...
I’ve been to a few oil spills in my day and, sad to say, my day seems like it hasn’t ended yet. ExxonMobil’s latest oil spill, in Mayflower, Arkansas, is of Canadian heavy crude oil. Three years ago...
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Is Exxon trying to hide the damage from their Tar Sands pipeline spill?
Greenpeace photo of Exxon’s Tar Sands oil spill, before the No-Fly zone was established Sure seems like it. According to reports from the ground, Exxon is in full control of the response to the 12,000...
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14 questions for Exxon from an oil spill expert
A dead American Coot covered in oil lies among leaves and branches near the Bell Slough Wildlife Management Area near Mayflower, Arkansas April 2, 2013. Exxon’s tar sands pipeline spill in Mayflower,...
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One Week, Four Oil Spills. Exxon’s tar sands oil spill in Arkansas is not an...
As many people who watch the oil industry know, oil spills are not avoidable, preventable, or unlikely. From extraction to combustion oil is a destructive and dirty business, based on sacrificing the...
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New documents show Exxon knew of dangerous contamination from their Arkansas...
On March 29 ExxonMobil, the most profitable company in the world, spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tar sands crude oil from an underground pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas. The pipeline was carrying...
View ArticleThis is what it’s like to live in an oil industry disaster
On March 29, ExxonMobil spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil in the small town of Mayflower, Arkansas. Exxon, the most profitable corporation in history, has yet to account for more...
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TransCanada legally bribes ALEC lawmakers to support Keystone XL pipeline
Written by Nick Surgey, crossposted with permission from PR Watch. In October 2012, nine U.S. state legislators went on an industry paid trip to explore the Alberta tar sands. Publicly described as an...
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State Department Doesn’t Know Exact Keystone XL Route
Crossposted from PolluterWatch. The U.S. government doesn’t know exactly where TransCanada wants to lay pipe for the northern section of its Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, according to the results of...
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Mobile, AL is bull’s-eye for Canadian Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline
Below is an account about the developing tar sands pipeline construction in Alabama from resident and activist. Mobile, Alabama has become the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. The ill-fated,...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Koch bros bankroll climate change denial
Originally posted on Republic Report and featured on Grist, by David Halperin. Information from Greenpeace’s ongoing research on Koch Industries Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine is cited in...
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The 3 most ridiculous Keystone XL scandals in the last 90 days
Since it was first proposed in 2008 the argument for building the Keystone XL pipeline, which would pump tar sands crude oil from Canada to the Gulf coast for refining and export to foreign countries,...
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Obama points out economic downsides of Keystone XL
Originally posted to Grist by Lisa Hymas, Senior Editor at Grist President Obama doesn’t seem sold on the economic benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry carbon-intensive tar-sands oil...
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda
Written by Brendan Fisher, crossposted from the Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch. At least 77 bills to oppose renewable energy standards, support fracking and the controversial Keystone XL...
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Exposed: ALEC’s new anti-environmental agenda in Chicago this week
New internal documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveal new methods that fossil fuel companies, agrochemical interests and corporate lobbying groups will influence certain...
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10 reasons why we should listen to Neil Young
To say that rock legend Neil Young has been making waves on his ACFN ‘Honour the Treaties’ tour would be an understatement. His comments about the horrors of the tar sands in Canada have made...
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TX and OK Residents Start New Chapter as KXL South Begins Hazardous Materials...
Crossposted from Tar Sands Blockade TX and OK Residents Start New Chapter as KXL South Begins Hazardous Materials Transport Through Region Shoddy KXL South Pipeline Connects Communities United in...
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BREAKING: Daryl Hannah and Greenpeace Respond to State Department’s Keystone...
Today the State Department released its Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The controversial project would carry as much as 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day...
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