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Why Does Rice play Texas?: climate change, EPA smog rules, TarSands pipeline, drought/fires edition

Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Tarsands, tagged Barack Obama, drought, EPA, football, JFK, Keystone Pipeline, longhorns, Oil sands, rice university, texas drought, United States Environmental Protection Agency, University of Texas, white house, Why does Rice play Texas?, wildfires on September 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The wildfires, Obama’s cave-in on the EPA’s smog rules, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline protests, Hurricane Irene, and our continued drought and economic malaise puts into focus several things that have been ruminating in my head all weekend, and it all comes back to this one question– Why does Rice play Texas? And how does this relate to clean air, climate change, and a switch to a clean energy economy?

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tar Sands Operator Fined for Tailing Pond Duck Deaths

Posted in Global Warming, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged greenpeace, Oil sands, Synacrude, tailing ponds, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on October 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »

From the New York Times: Syncrude, the largest operator of oil sands projects in Canada, was ordered to pay $2.92 million on Friday for causing the deaths of 1,603 ducks. The company was convicted in June by an Alberta court for failing to deploy scarecrows and loud cannons in April 2008 to prevent the migratory [...]

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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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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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Tar Sands Oil’s Devastating Legacy

Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, natural gas, Renewables, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged canada, climate change, dirty, Energy, Global Warming, Keystone Pipeline, oil, Oil sands, Oklahoma, pipeline, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Tar Sands, tarsands, Texas, transcanada on September 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Tar sands oil makes conventional oil look clean by comparison, as it produces 3.2-4.5 times more the carbon footprint than conventional fuel. If that weren’t bad enough cleaner fuels such as natural gas, which otherwise might be used to generate electricity, are wasted in the process of creating more dirty energy from tar sands. Tar [...]

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