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TransCanada clings to Keystone myths
Lorne Stockman
May23
Yesterday we co-published a report with NRDC and Forest Ethics that busted the myth that the Keystone XL pipeline would lower gasoline prices for US and Canadian consumers. It is actually more likely to raise prices by diverting oil from refineries in the Midwest that are focused on serving the domestic market to refineries on…
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Keystone XL Gas Price Myth Busted
Lorne Stockman
May22
Download the report. NRDC, Oil Change International and ForestEthics Advocacy released a report today that blows apart the tar sands industry’s claims that building the Keystone XL pipeline would lower gasoline prices in America. The report lays out how Keystone XL would reduce gasoline supplies in America by diverting Canadian tar sands crude from the Midwest to the…
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Dirty Energy Money Buys Yet Another Keystone Vote
Karen Showalter
May18
The House of Representatives took a non-binding vote earlier today on whether to support inclusion of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in a transportation bill currently being negotiated by both chambers. It passed 261-152. The influence of dirty energy money has once again reared its ugly head. Those voting in favor of the inclusion of…
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Tar sands pipelines don’t just leak oil
Lorne Stockman
May15
Download our briefing on the tar sands exemption to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund here. When Enbridge’s Line 6B burst open near Marshall, Michigan in July 2010 spewing over a million gallons of tar sands sludge into the Kalamazoo river watershed, funds were quickly released from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to mobilize…
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Koch-ing the Climate: Exploiting the Tar Sands
Andy Rowell
May14
Last week, the god-father of climate science, James Hansen, who directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, re-iterated his warning about exploiting the tar sands in an op-ed in the New York Times. His warning was dire: “Canada’s tar sands contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our…
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US Pipeline Regulations “Inadequate”
Andy Rowell
May01
One thing is certain: pipelines have become a political hot potato. Over the next few months the debate about Keystone XL will surely dog the Presidential debate like a bad penny. But as the furore over Keystone has grown it is easy to forget about the state of other pipelines in the US and how…
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Big Oil Donates over $500,000 to Congress in First Quarter of 2012
Karen Showalter
Apr23
The political action committees (PACs) of five of the biggest players in the oil and gas industry donated just over $500,000 to Congressional incumbents and candidates during the first quarter of 2012. Public Campaign has just released new analysis of data filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Some key findings: Exxon’s PAC was the biggest…
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Keystone refineries on export overdrive
Lorne Stockman
Apr04
In September 2011, we first reported that the refineries that will receive crude from the proposed Keystone XL pipeline are increasingly focused on exports. We can now reveal that in the last quarter of 2011, 73% of gasoline produced in Port Arthur and Houston area refineries was exported as was 40% of diesel production….
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Keystone Stopped (again), but Not For Want of Trying
Lorne Stockman
Mar08
The U.S. Senate has rejected the most recent attempt to go forward with the Keystone XL pipeline. Amendment #1537, proposed by Senator Hoeven (R-ND), would have required approval of the controversial project without necessary environmental and other reviews. The amendment was was supported 56-42 but failed as 60 votes were needed in order to pass….
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New KXL Route “Within Weeks”
Andy Rowell
Mar07
And so the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline goes on. TransCanada plans to refile its application with the U.S. government in the next few weeks, according to Alex Pourbaix, the company’s president of oil and pipelines. The new alternative pipeline route will avoid the ecologically sensitive Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer, a crucial water…
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