October 11th
10:14 AM
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"I have flown over the tar sands strip mines in Alberta and it is hard to convey the massive scale of these operations. They stretch from horizon to horizon, gray and black gouges in the earth where there used to be waves of green trees."

- Frances Beinecke, NRDC president, in a Switchboard blog post about the environmental damage caused by tar sands oil development.

(via nrdc)

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October 2nd
11:11 AM
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Cornell University report: Keystone XL Pipeline could kill more jobs than it creates"

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September 11th
8:02 PM
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Dalai Lama urges Obama not to approve Keystone pipeline

benvironment:

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

I don’t think anyone saw this one coming……but His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is the latest high profile critic of the Keystone Pipeline.

He is one of a group of nine Nobel Peace Laureates (including Archbishop Desmond Tutu) who have written a letter to President Obama, urging him to honour the environmental pledges he made back in 2008 and reject the Keystone extension.

See the most recent stories about the Keystone Pipeline.

#Dalai Lama      #Desmond Tutu      #Nobel      #Peace Laureate      #environment      #Keystone      #Pipeline      #energy      #oil      #Obama      #news      #Canada      #Boreal      #Alberta      #White House     
August 30th
1:51 PM
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jtotheizzoe: James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested yesterday as part of the ongoing protests against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. That’s what I call putting your money where your scientific mouth is. (via Discovery News)

jtotheizzoe:

James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested yesterday as part of the ongoing protests against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

That’s what I call putting your money where your scientific mouth is.

(via Discovery News)

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1:50 PM
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newshour: A map of the proposed Keystone XL, also called Tar Sands, pipeline. It could carry crude oil some 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast in Texas. A friendly and safe new source of oil for the U.S. or an environmental disaster waiting to happen?

newshour:

A map of the proposed Keystone XL, also called Tar Sands, pipeline.

It could carry crude oil some 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast in Texas.

A friendly and safe new source of oil for the U.S. or an environmental disaster waiting to happen?

#news      #pipeline      #tar sands      #keystone xl      #map      #politics      #environment