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Bay Area Protests Underway to Stop WesPac-Pittsburg Oil Mega-Terminal
Demonstrators at Pittsburg, Calif., City Hall said that plans to store highly volatile crude oil imported from the Bakken fields of North Dakota – and even the Alberta tar sands – were unacceptable.
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Researchers Find 7,300-Mile Ring of Mercury Around Alberta Tar Sands in Canada
Government scientists are preparing to publish a report that finds levels of mercury up to 16 times higher around the tar sand operations, principally due to oil and gas companies' excavation and transportation of bitumen in the sands.
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.
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Activists Lock Down in Oklahoma to Highlight Tar Sands "Sacrifice Zones"
Two activists locked themselves inside a revolving door at the Devon Tower in Oklahoma City in protest of Devon’s involvement in tar sands extraction and fracking.
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Clock Ticking, British Columbia Residents Rally to Oppose New Coal Terminal
Combined coal exports from the Fraser Surrey Docks and the recently approved Neptune Terminal would reach 14 million metric tons per year, and the "streamlined" process of environmental review has meant less time for public input.
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Revealed: ALEC Seeks Legislation to Punish Solar Power Users as "Freeriders"
The alliance of corporations and ultra-right activists known as the American Legislative Exchange Council is attempting to penalize homeowners who install solar panels on their houses and to block clean energy developments across the U.S.
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The Climate Movement Needs to Stop "Winning"
I am from an impacted community in East Texas, home to oil and gas industry, on the southern route of the Keystone XL pipeline. My community will not "win" on climate and this idea delegitimizes the extraction industry impacts we already face.
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First Nation Clan Blocks Path of Northern Pipelines in British Columbia
As corporations attempt to drive the Pacific Trails and Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines through British Columbia wilderness, the Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet'suwet'en people are courageously occupying in a strategic place to defend their lands.
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Chaos for Keystone: Dents, Holes, Bends and Damage Plague Pipeline's 485-Mile Southern Half
Public Citizen released a chilling report revealing that the Keystone's southern line, due to begin pumping 700,000 daily barrels of bitumen from Oklahoma to Texas within weeks, has more than 125 "anomalies" alone in the half of the line it analyzed.
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Why the Kalamazoo Oil Disaster Looms As a Warning Against Further Pipelines
Three years after a mega-oil spill left tar sands bitumen blanketing a swath of Michigan, the EPA estimates there are still about 180,000 (plus or minus 100,000) gallons of crude still lining the Kalamazoo River. Are we really ready for more pipelines?
