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Posts by David Turnbull

• OCI Response to Presidential Veto of Keystone XL Bill

  David Turnbull, February 24, 2015
  Fossil fuel funded politicians in Congress should take note - when the President of the United States says he is going to do something, he follows through.

• Response to EPA comments on Keystone XL

  David Turnbull, February 3, 2015
  The EPA's comments point to the fact that at current oil prices the pipeline would certainly trigger additional production in the tar sands, and thus significant additional emissions. Thus Keystone XL clearly fails the President’s climate test...
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  Solidarity with Striking Refinery Workers

  David Turnbull, February 2, 2015
  Yesterday, after a failure in new contract negotiations initiated this month by a group of major oil companies, the United Steelworkers announced a work stoppage at nine refineries, the largest refinery strike in nearly 35 years.

• Response to Obama Administration’s 5 Year Plan on Offshore Drilling

  David Turnbull, January 27, 2015
  The world is in a very big hole with climate change and when you're in a hole the first order of business should be to stop digging. Unfortunately, the Administration's Five Year Plan amounts to climate denial.
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  State of the Union 2015: Big Oil’s grip loosens

  David Turnbull, January 21, 2015
  Aside from providing some entertainment, twitter fodder, and political theater...coming on the eve of the 5th anniversary of the dubious Citizens United Supreme Court decision, last night’s State of the Union speech showed us a few important things when it comes to climate and Washington, DC.

• Statement on President Obama’s veto threat of Keystone XL legislation

  David Turnbull, January 6, 2015
  The President is right to threaten a veto of legislation to approve the pipeline, just as he’ll be right to reject Keystone XL once and for all. The pipeline clearly fails the climate test that the President set out last year, particularly with low oil prices.
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  Subsidy Spotlight: Utah Land Defenders Stand Up To Dirty Politics

  David Turnbull, December 18, 2014
  New technologies like fracking––along with government subsidies––have ushered in an energy boom reliant on extreme extraction methods to produce oil and natural gas. Now the Uinta Basin is ground zero for what threatens to become the next phase in extreme energy extraction: strip mining for tar sands and oil shale.
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  Subsidy Spotlight: Publicly Funding a Utah Disaster in the Making

  David Turnbull, December 17, 2014
  Through public land leases, infrastructure subsidies, and some very expensive tax breaks, taxpayer money is supporting what could become one of the dirtiest, most destructive chapters in American energy history.
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  Elections 2014: Amongst the losses, six wins shine

  David Turnbull, November 5, 2014
  Where we played our game -- a game of communities rising up, of organizing, of using facts to guide us, of running straight at our progressive values and being unashamed of them -- we won. And those wins were beautiful.
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  People’s Climate Moments

  David Turnbull, September 26, 2014
  It was a day of huge roars but also small whispers, small moments and momentary glimpses of a beautiful future. Seconds-long reminders that we’re not alone, that we’re in this together, that the world is small and big and diverse and unified all at the same time.