Trump’s Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Promise, Unkept & Undone
Add the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline to the growing pile of campaign promises that President* Trump has yet to keep.
Add the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline to the growing pile of campaign promises that President* Trump has yet to keep.
A new report released this week and endorsed by over 50 organizations around the world reveals that 36 of the world’s biggest banks funneled $115 billion into fossil fuels in 2017, an 11% increase over 2016 levels despite it being the costliest year on record for weather disasters.
The Keystone XL pipeline lives on in federal court, but it could encounter new issues related to fracking and earthquakes in Oklahoma.
The Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline just won’t quit coming back from the dead, as owner TransCanada strikes back with legal action on two fronts.
Yes, the Koch brothers don’t have a stake in the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but cancellation of the project would be a stab in the heart to Koch Industries.
The tubes have been buzzing over a new New York Times report on Secretary of State John Kerry’s aggressive pursuit of a new global climate agreement, which has some clear implications for approval of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. In a nutshell, things ain’t looking so good, … [continued]
As Yogi Berra would say, it ain’t over ’til it’s over, but as far as the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline is concerned, you might as well stick a fork in it: it’s done. Capping off a run of bad news for the ultimate “dirty fuel” project, last Friday … [continued]
The much-anticipated President Obama climate change speech on Tuesday at Georgetown University easily topped 6,000 words, but one of them really stuck out for us: Keystone. That’s because, of all the disastrous fossil fuel projects that have clouded the American landscape with increasing regularity, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is … [continued]
Apologies for the mixed sports references but when we heard that Boston Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference (aka @Ferknuckle) was on board with a new energy efficiency promotion we could hardly contain ourselves. Aside from leading the Bruins through a string of playoff slots and a Stanley Cup, the Canadian-born Ference … [continued]
Last week we introduced you to an up-and-coming biofuel tree called pongam, which we called the “Ginsu knives of treedom” because they seemed to have a thousand and one uses – aside from extracting oil from their seeds for making biofuel, that is. Well, it looks like we just … [continued]