Keystone
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Keystone XL construction to begin next year, but indigenous activists vow to keep fighting
The contentious decade-long battle between indigenous communities and TransCanada continues.
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TransCanada’s latest move perfectly illustrates why so many people hate free-trade deals
The Canadian company is using NAFTA to claim that the U.S. owes it $15 billion for not building the Keystone pipeline.
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Keystone spills 16,000 gallons and the oil market barely notices
Turns out we really didn't need Keystone XL after all.
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How Europe can help Obama achieve US climate targets
As the global leader of climate action, European governments want to know how President Obama’s major climate speech affects Europe – and particularly whether the actions he outlined can allow the United States to reach its commitment to reduce emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels (or even exceed that level). The big picture: Obama’s […]
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Keystone surprise: Greens stronger & GOP dumber than predicted
Greens can't match fossil-fuel money, but Keystone XL shows they can outmaneuver opponents when they put their bodies and sweat into it.
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Clean energy policies create more jobs than Keystone
Obama is poised to reject Keystone XL this afternoon, so brace for a lot of Republican bellyaching about how he obviously doesn’t care about jobs. There is a problem with this line of argument, and it’s that it is nonsense. Don’t believe us? Check out this graph, from ThinkProgress, which shows how Obama administration policies […]
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Can Obama go back to political base(ics)?
An Obama 2012 rally in Chicago in April.Photo: Barack ObamaCross-posted from the Great Energy Challenge blog. President Obama made a smart move this month by putting the Keystone XL pipeline project into the deep freeze. It had been poor politics for him — and it would have been even worse policy for the country, especially when you consider […]
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Keystone ‘victory’ is nothing of the sort, say testy wonks
Enviros’ opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline has succeeded in delaying or possibly even deep-sixing a project that would have carried oil from the tar sands in Canada to refineries in Texas (and over a drinking water aquifer and the epicenter of a bunch of earthquakes). But not everyone is celebrating. Professional wet blanket Michael […]
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How delaying Keystone XL could kill the pipeline completely
The Obama administration just announced that the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline will be delayed as it studies a potential new route for the project, one that does not take it across a critical groundwater aquifer that supplies water to more than 1 million people. This delay, projected to be 12 to 18 months, might very […]