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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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  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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  Dirty Energy Money pouring into Congress faster than ever before

  Steve Kretzmann

  May09

  Members of Congress have taken almost $16 million from the oil, gas and coal industries so far in this 112th Congress. That puts this Congress on track to be the dirtiest ever. The information comes to light as part of the latest update of DirtyEnergyMoney.com, a project of Oil Change International which uniquely refines and…
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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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  Rising gas prices, Keystone XL and the real solutions

  Lorne Stockman

  Feb24

  with Steve Kretzmann Much is being written and said about rising gas prices, Obama’s energy policies in general and the Keystone XL pipeline in particular. While the President’s opponents repeat ad infinitum the “Drill Baby Drill” mantra, it has been interesting to note that much of the mainstream press has been skeptical. And so they…
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  Keystone XL benefits from taxpayer subsidies

  Lorne Stockman

  Feb08

   Sen. Mitch McConnell claimed recently that the Keystone XL Pipeline “doesn’t require a penny of our taxpayer money all the president has to do is approve it.” But our research reveals many places that the pipeline project benefits from taxpayer subsidies. The refineries that are linked to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline as committed…
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  Keystone XL Does Not Enhance U.S. Energy Security

  Elizabeth Bast

  Jan18

  New report by Oil Change International and Natural Resources Defense Council finds Keystone will increase price of oil in the Midwest.  

• Tar sands have trouble ‘getting to market’ – new report

  Lorne Stockman

  Dec13

  Our latest report, Getting to Market: Emerging Investor Risks in the Tar Sands highlights the latest challenge facing the tar sands industry and warns investors to look more critically at industry’s ambitious claims. Download the full report Tar sands extraction projects are moving forward with increasing pace. The industry ambition is to grow production from…
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• Shift the Subsidies Database Reveals $40 Billion in Fossil Fuel Funding Over Last Four Years

  Elizabeth Bast

  Nov30

  Development Banks Still Financing Dirty Energy New Database Reveals $40 Billion in Fossil Fuel Funding Over Last Four Years Nov. 30, 2011, Durban, South Africa – Major multilateral development banks have provided financing of over $40 billion to fossil-fuel energy development since 2008, according to the new Shift the Subsidies database (http://shiftthesubsidies.org), launched today by…
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  Civil Society to World Bank: Clean Up Dirty Energy Financing

  Elizabeth Bast

  Nov29

  New report shows institution lacking clean energy lending strategy and instead considering a new loan for coal power in Kosovo BASIC South Initiative – Campagna per la riforma della Banca Mondiale (Italy) – Friends of the Earth U.S. – groundWork (South Africa) – International Rivers – Oil Change International – Sierra Club (U.S.) – Urgewald…
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