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Posts by David Turnbull

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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.

• New Report: Rail won’t solve tar sands industry’s market access problem

  David Turnbull, September 8, 2014
  A report published today by Oil Change International presents new analysis that confirms that shipping tar sands bitumen by rail cannot possibly meet the tar sands industry’s reckless production growth plans.
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  Richest Countries Spending Billions to Expand Unburnable Carbon Stock

  David Turnbull, August 27, 2014
  A new report released today by Oil Change International outlines billions of dollars of annual subsidies from the seven richest countries in the world to expand fossil fuel reserves, despite repeated commitments from those same countries to phase them out.
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  Subsidy Spotlight: Paid to Pollute and Poison

  David Turnbull, July 28, 2014
  The BP gulf oil spill may not have happened without government subsidies. In fact, at least two major subsidies were used both before and after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon to support BP.

• Report: Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies Exceed $21 Billion Annually in United States

  David Turnbull, July 9, 2014
  A new report released today by Oil Change International exposes over $21 billion in fossil fuel production subsidies annually in the U.S. at the federal and state levels.