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Video: Why the Keystone XL is so Hard to Kill

March 10, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Video: Keystone XL will Raise Gas Prices

March 10, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Republicans Vow to Continue Push for Keystone

March 10, 2012 Add Comment Edit

GOP's Keystone XL Proposal Fails in Senate

March 10, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Anti-Keystone XL Ad Campaign

March 09, 2012 Add Comment Edit

The Keystone XL and Rising Fuel Prices

March 09, 2012 Add Comment Edit

As fuel prices rise Americans need to understand that gaining access to Canadian tar sands oil will not decrease the price gas and it may even increase it. Republicans argue that with rising gas prices it makes no sense to hold up a project that could deliver to market an additional 830,000 barrels of oil a day.

Although Republicans are using rising gas prices as a rationalization to build the Keystone XL, the pipeline will actually increase the price Americans pay for Canadian oil by up to $4 billion a year or 10 to 20 cents more per gallon of gas in the midwest.

As reported by the NRDC, the pipeline would cause oil prices to rise in the Midwest, costing consumers more at the pump. Importing oil from Canada has never helped America get off the oil price rollercoaster. Over the last 11 years, the amount of oil we bought from Canada increased 50 percent, yet gas prices have tripled over that same period, with ups and downs along the way. The price of oil is subject to market forces, access to Canadian tar sands will not effect the price.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden proposed an alternative on Wednesday that would ban exports of oil from the pipeline as well as refined products made from the oil.

Some refined products such as high-sulfur diesel and petroleum coke need to be sold outside the country, where there are markets for them. Keeping them inside the United States would increase the costs of the project and could lead to higher gasoline prices, Bernstein said.

The NRDC is helping people to take action to resist the pipeline. Click here to tell your leaders they must not play politics with a dirty energy project when the safety of our communities, farms, waters, and climate are at stake.

© 2012, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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Republicans Refuse to Let the Keystone XL Die

March 08, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Just when we thought it was safe, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project has once again reared its ugly head. Even though President Obama said no the pipeline, Republicans are trying to push it through as an amendment to the Transportation Bill. Any day now the Senate will vote on an amendment that would force approval for the pipeline. Republicans in the House of Representatives have already passed the energy portion of their transportation bill, which would grant Keystone a permit. But this is the first time that the pipeline has had an up or down vote in the Senate.

The Republican amendment, championed by Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota, would sidestep the need for presidential approval and allow Congress to approve the project.

Congress is trying usurp power to forgo normal environmental review processes and give Congress the unprecedented authority to hand out permits on massive projects.

The Congress has the authority to bypass the State Department and approve the pipeline under the commerce clause. There are other provisions that could also be approved in the Transportation Bill, including forced expanded oil drilling and repealing EPA's crucial clean air boiler rule. However, any bill containing such measures would still require Obama's signature.

Republicans persist despite strong opposition to the pipeline. In February, over 800,000 signatures were delivered to Congress expressing opposition and over 100 mayors sent a letter opposing the pipeline.

In another act of protest, the Lakota tribe in South Dakota prevented the passage of trucks carrying tar sands equipment through the Pine Ridge Reservation.

To protest the proposed amendment, 350.org activists were all over Capitol Hill and the halls of Congress this week. They were also pressuring wavering Senators by getting them on record before the vote.

The fight against Keystone XL has demonstrated that direct action and civil disobedience can make a difference. Let your voice be heard, call your Senator today. To use the 350.org tool to locate your Senator's phone number click here.

To send a message to your Senators through Facebook or Twitter with the help of a 350.org tool click here.

© 2012, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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Republicans Vow to Continue Push for Keystone
GOP's Keystone XL Proposal Fails in Senate
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The Keystone XL and Rising Fuel Prices
Video: Keystone XL will Raise Gas Prices
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Resistance to Republican Efforts to Resurrect the Keystone XL Pipeline
Obama Cancels the Keystone XL Pipeline Project
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Tar Sands Day of Action in Washington DC
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US Protests Against the Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline

July 21, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Canada wants to build a pipeline to transport tar sands oil from the province of Alberta all the way down to refineries in Texas. Earth friendly groups see the 1,700-mile long pipeline, known as the Keystone XL, as a disaster for the environment. According to Dr. Hansen who is one of America’s top climate scientists, the full exploitation of Canada’s tar sands would constitute a “game over” scenario for efforts to solve climate change.

Now that it has Canadian approval, the fate of the Keystone XL Pipeline is in the hands of President Obama. The President will decide on the fate of the pipeline as early as September. This decision will have dire implications for renewable energy production. The more access the US has to tar sands oil, the less it will turn to renewable sources of energy.

The pipeline negatively impacts wind power projects scheduled for Maryland, Virginia and DC and many other states that are developing their own renewable energy resources. In Maryland and Virginia alone there is enough offshore wind energy to power millions of electric cars indefinitely and without pollution.

From August 15th to September 5th, thousands of Americans – including Bill McKibben, Danny Glover, and NASA’s Dr. James Hansen – will be protesting at the White House, demanding that Obama reject the tar sands. To be part of this historic protest click here.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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