Citizens gather on the steps of the Lamar County Courthouse in support of Julia Triggs Crawford before the TransCanada suit to dismiss her Temporary Restraining Order is heard. Last week, local citizens from areas bordering the path of the proposed Texas leg of the TransCanada tar sands pipeline, rallied in front of the Lamar County [...]
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A temporary victory for private property rights
Posted in Tarsands, tagged Eminent Domain, Julia Trigg Crawford, Keystone Pipeline, Texas, transcanada on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
TransCanada Continues to Bully Landowners Despite Denial of Pipeline Permit
Posted in Tarsands, tagged debra medina, Keystone Pipeline, keystone xl, Texas, Texas Railroad Commission, transcanada on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this week, a new statewide coalition of groups and advocates for private property rights announced its support for landowners along the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. The groups charge that TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, has used eminent domain to bully landowners and condemn private property. Despite a presidential [...]
Pipelines of Poison Sidestep Stalled State Department Signoff
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Tarsands, tagged Keystone Pipeline, Texas, transcanada, United States, United States Department of State on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Foreign Pipeline Owners Find a Way to Get Around Federal Permit Process TransCanada is attempting to outsmart the State Department and bypass federal blocks by using two existing pipelines of poison after the State Department and President Obama delayed approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline permit amidst concerns about bias, conflicts of interest, and environmental [...]
Pipeline of Poison Paused
Posted in Global Warming, Tarsands, tagged Inspector General, Public Citizen, Texas, transcanada, United States Department of State on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen joins Texas pipeline opponents in applauding the Obama administration’s decision for a ”re-do” on the environmental impact statement and routing decisions for the proposed TransCanada tarsands pipeline. This is a decision that came quickly on the heels of the U.S. State Department’s Inspector General’s announcement that they were launching an investigation into the alledged bias and [...]
Keystone XL Pipeline under investigation for bias and conflict of interest
Posted in Global Warming, Tarsands, tagged Keystone Pipeline, keystone xl, Texas, United States Department of State on November 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last month we wrote about what appeared to be conflicts of interest in the facilitation of the U.S. Department of State’s public hearings (one of which took place in Austin, TX), and the environmental impact analysis of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline that would transport Canadian tar sands 1,700 miles to Texas refineries. Keystone XL is now [...]
Environmentalists Target Obama with Tar Sands Protest
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Global Warming, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged Austin, Keystone Pipeline, transcanada, United States Department of State on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Austinites rally outside campaign headquarters in solidarity with 12,000 in DC Protestors spell out their message. “SAY NO TO TARSANDS!” - Photo by Don Mason (http://ow.ly/7nbjY) AUSTIN, TX – Campaign staff and volunteers working for President Obama’s re-election got an earful from environmentalists in Austin on Monday, one day after 12,000 people encircled the White House [...]
Special Nebraska Legislative Session May Re-Route Tar Sands Pipeline
Posted in Tarsands on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click here to read a news release from the office of Governor Dave Heineman of Nebraska. The Governor has announced a special legislative session to attempt a statutory solution to siting problems associated with the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The Governor and many prominent elected leaders in Nebraska have expressed concerns about the impact [...]
Tar Sands Cronyism
Posted in Air Quality, Tarsands, tagged Keystone Pipeline, New York Times, state department on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a New York Times op-ed by Bill McKibbens, he talks about the cronyism of the TransCanada tar sands play. He makes reference to e-mails, made available by the environmental group Friends of the Earth, that show the State Department working with lobbyists to advance the interests of TransCanada, the company trying to build the [...]
Why the Solyndra solar bankruptcy scandal is a big deal, but not the big deal some are making of it
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, Good Government, Nuclear, solar, Tarsands, tagged Campaign Finance, campaign finance reform, loan guarantee, Obama administration, solar energy, Solyndra, united states department of energy, white house on September 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
California solar energy company Solyndra had its offices raided last week by federal agents as part of an ongoing investigation into their bankruptcy and federal loan guarantees they’d received form the Department of Energy. Some critics have cried foul, trying to show how federal money spent on emerging technology is a waste. Others have tried [...]
Pipelines trump your property rights.
Posted in Tarsands, tagged Eminent Domain, Oil sands, Pipeline transport, south texas, Texas on August 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Energy companies are increasingly suing South Texas landowners as they work to build pipelines to accommodate surging oil and gas production. The question isn’t whether a company can route a pipeline across a property owner’s land. Pipeline companies, under Texas law, wield the power of eminent domain and can use it to acquire an easement [...]
How Many Tar Sands Pipeline Spills Does Texas Want?
Posted in Tarsands, tagged david daniel, keystone, pipeline, sands, spill, stop, tar, tarsands, XL on June 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
U.S. Stops Keystone I Line from Restarting After 12th Spill in 12 Months, Days Before Comment Period Ends on Keystone XL For over a year, TransCanada has been trying to get its hands on a Presidential Permit from the U.S. Department of State to extend its Keystone I tar sands pipeline with a pipeline called [...]
Major Oil Spill From Keystone Pipeline
Posted in Tarsands, tagged canada, cogswell, Eminent Domain, geyser, keystone, north dakota, pipeline, rupture, spill, Tar Sands, tarsands, Texas, transcanada, XL on May 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, May 7 the Keystone pipeline had a major rupture and spill near Cogswell, North Dakota spewing 500 barrels of oil in a geyser twice the height of the surrounding trees (about 60 feet). This pipeline is owned by TransCanada, the same company proposing to build the Keystone XL pipeline (an extension of the [...]
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Massive Opposition to Tar Sands Pipeline
Posted in Tarsands, tagged comments, keystone, keystone xl, permit, pipeline, spill, state department, Tar Sands, tarsands, transcanada on June 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Over 260,000 Americans have told the State Department that they do not want the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline to receive a permit. After two recent spills (and averaging one a month) on the 1 year old Keystone pipeline (Keystone XL would extend that pipeline into Texas) it seems obvious that Americans are waking up [...]
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