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 [...]
Obama’s Rejection of Keystone A Sensible Decision
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Keystone Pipeline, keystone xl, Obama administration, Public Citizen on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a statement this afternoon, Obama said that he received a recommendation from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton earlier today recommending that the Keystone XL tar sands Presidential permit application be denied. TransCanada’s first tar sands pipeline leaked 12 times in its first year of operation, although the company estimated it would leak just [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
More environmental groups considering suing over the proposed tarsands pipeline
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Keystone Pipeline, transcanada, United States Department of State on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Four environmental groups are preparing a lawsuit that alleges the Obama administration has not adequately studied how the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline would affect several endangered species. The Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council and Nebraska Wildlife Federation sent a formal notice of intent to sue Thursday to the State [...]
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 [...]
Congress should vote against reducing a review of proposed pipeline that will run through Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Keystone Pipeline, ogallala aquifer, Oil sands, Texas on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Terry-Greene Tar Sands Resolution Would Allow Hasty Decision to Be Made Regarding an Oil Pipeline Through Texas The Terry-Greene Tar Sands Resolution (H.R .1938), which is scheduled for a vote Tuesday, would expedite the approval for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, requiring a decision by Nov. 1 of this year, causing important objections [...]
In Keystone XL Pipeline Negotiations, Charges of Bad Faith Tactics
Posted in Air Quality, Tarsands, tagged Eminent Domain, Keystone Pipeline, Texas, transcanada on March 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In a three part series, Elizabeth McGowan of Solve Climate News writes how some U.S. landowners along the Keystone XL route say they are being ‘pushed around’ and ‘intimidated’ by TransCanada, an accusation the energy giant denies. To read Ms. McGowan’s story “Is Keystone XL Impervious to Lawsuits?” click on the parts below. Part I, [...]
Stop TransCanada From Bringing Dirty Oil to Your Backyard
Posted in Global Warming, Tarsands, tagged Global Warming, Keystone Pipeline, obama, ogallala aquifer, Oil sands, public citizen texas, transcanada on January 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a while since a status update has been given on the Keystone XL pipeline project here at Public Citizen so the time has come! The Keystone pipeline project is Canadian initiated undertaking involving both TransCanada and ConocoPhillips. The pipeline is set out to be about 1380 miles long and the pipe itself is [...]
STOP: Stop Tarsands Oil Pipelines – Voices From Texas Landowners
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged Air Quality, Austin Energy, Keystone Pipeline, Oil sands, pipeline, Tar Sands, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on October 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Meet Audrey and Jim Thornton, two of the landowners who have the threat of a Canadian tarsands pipeline proposed to run through their land. Tarsands crude is many times more concentrated with toxins and carcinogens than typical, Texas, crude oil. Like just about every other land-owner along the pipeline route, the Thorntons have been threatened [...]
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