Tag Archives: Tar Sands Pipeline

Kristin Moe : Polluted Houston Neighborhood Draws the Line at Tar Sands

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Thorne Dreyer

Children from the Manchester neighborhood in Houston with oil refinery smokestack in the background. Photo by Tar Sands Blockade. Photo by Tar Sands Blockade / YES! Magazine. Houston’s most polluted neighborhooddraws the line at Alberta Tar Sands East Texas is … Continue reading →

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Jim Hightower : The Keystone XL Flim-Flam

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Image from Nation of Change.The Keystone XL flim-flam The dirty little secret that those pushing so urgently for building Keystone XL don’t want you to know is that the tar sands oil producers are … Continue reading →

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CARTOON / Charlie Loving : Rick Perry on Foreign Oil!

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

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Alyssa Burgin : Cronyism, Corruption, and the Keystone XL Pipeline

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Don’t mess with Texas. Photo by Jon McLaughlin / National Resources Defense Council.‘Regulatory capture’:Cronyism and corruption in the Keystone XL Pipeline approval process By Alyssa Burgin / The Rag Blog / October 19, 2011 AUSTIN — On November 6, 2011, … Continue reading →

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Jay D. Jurie : Keystone XL is a Pipeline to Big Profits

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Canadian tar sands crude oil. Image from The Alaska Gas Pipeline.Keystone XL:A pipeline to big oil profits Former NASA scientist Jim Hansen has argued that if tar sands development continues and the pipeline is built, it is essentially ‘game over’ … Continue reading →

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