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Rerouting Keystone XL: From Poisoned Aquifers to Polluted Land

Posted in Air Quality, Water, tagged keystone, pipeline spills, tarsands on December 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This is a guest blog by departing Public Citizen intern Chantelle B. In recent months, Nebraska’s government has taken a strong stand against the Keystone XL Pipeline’s route, which currently passes through the ecologically fragile Sandhills region and North America’s largest aquifer – the Ogallala – which, if polluted, could have disastrous effects. The majority of [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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Is my property ripe for the TAKING?

Posted in Air Quality, Tarsands, tagged Condemnation, Eminent Domain, keystone, Oil sands, Takings, tarsands on October 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

As you may have read in an earlier blog, Texas landowners who live in the path of the proposed Keystone Pipeline route may be dealing with the threat of eminent domain to force them into a contract. If the landowner doesn’t come to an agreement with the entity intent on “taking” their land, then they might be [...]

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