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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
TransCanada to Build a Tar-Sand Pipeline in East Texas
Posted in Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Houston refinary., keystone xl, oklahoma-texas pipeline, tar sand, tar sand pipeline, transcanada, tx pipelines on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While the Department of Energy took a step towards cutting the emissions of the state by approving a Carbon Capture and Storage project for Texas which will start early next year, a nasty tar-sand Pipeline is set to penetrate through Texas land and be completed by late 2011. The first segment of the line which [...]
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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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