Earlier today, forty-four Senators introduced legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. This bill would would approve the Keystone XL pipeline despite the Obama Administration’s rejection of its permit following months of intensifying protest against it and numerous studies revealing its vastly inflated economic impact.
Our colleagues at Public Campaign and 350.org revealed that those Senators who co-sponsored the bill have received $22.3 million in oil and gas money since 1989.
We also ran the numbers through our Dirty Energy Money database and found two additional notable facts:
- Those Senators who co-sponsored this bill have taken more than three times as much oil and gas money on average in this current Congress than those who did not co-sponsor;
- Seantor Joe Manchin (W.Va), the only Democrat to sponsor, has received more money from the oil industry so far in the 112th Congress than any other Democrat – $42,250. That is more than 5 times the average amount of oil industry donations than his fellow Democrats in the Senate.
Download our analysis here. It’s worth noting that our database only goes back to 1999, while the earlier analysis went to 1989.
It’s also worth noting that TransCanada has spent more than $1.3 million in lobbying in Washington over the last year.
We the People of the World are FOR SOLAR, WIND, and NEW GREENER ALTERNATIVES. WE ARE AGAINST NEW, NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, AND PAID OFF OIL PIPELINES WAITING TO HAPPEN
It is time to stop of corporate greed and enviromental destruction and invest in clean, renewable energy.
I’m DISGUSTED that the politicians, from BOTH major parties, are even CONSIDERING this DISASTROUS project, let alone giving it more than nine lives! When are they going to get it through their heads that we want OFF of fossil fuels and want ENERGY INDEPENDENCE that is NOT going to pollute our nation, nor the planet in ANY MANNER?!?!? The GREED and SELF-CENTEREDNESS of the rich, richer, and richest amongst us, PROFOUNDLY disturbs me!
It’s time that the greedy, crony-centric politicians become RAPIDLY unemployed, themselves, and find themselves having their only “recreational” spot to play in, to be the BP-trashed GULF COAST! How wonderful it would be, if most of them were forced to BATHE in that swill, every day for the rest of their lives!
Dirty oil and dirty politicians seem to go hand in outstrethhed hand!!!!
enough of the greed and corruption already.
forget the pipeline build the refiners on SITE. it means lower gas prices.