Oil money behind Keystone XL Senate bill breaks 20 million dollars
Senators cosponsoring the pro-Keystone XL bill introduced today have received roughly 5 times more in oil industry cash than those who remained off the bill.
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Industry experts expect Keystone XL crude to be directly exported
Talk of US crude exports apparently reached new heights this week at the Platts North American Crude Oil Marketing Conference, which ends today in Houston. It has been a familiar cry at such shindigs for the past year or so,...
Latest pro-Keystone XL letter from Congress once again awash with oil money
Representatives that signed the latest pro-Keystone XL letter received roughly 250% more money from oil and gas interests compared to those Representatives who did not sign the letter.
Big Oil Buys Democratic Support for Keystone XL
Earlier today, twenty-two House Democrats sent a letter to President Obama expressing their support for the Keystone XL pipeline project. The letter was announced in a press release from TransCanada. Both the letter and the press release predictably recycle discredited...
President Obama sides with the “many over the money” by effectively rejecting Keystone XL
This afternoon, officials at the White House and the State Department announced that they would “examine in depth alternative routes” for the Keystone XL pipeline and that this process “could be completed as early as the first quarter of 2013”....
Myth or Miracle? Are Keystone XL jobs and energy security claims exaggerated?
To hear some people talk about it, Keystone XL is the answer to many of America’s current woes. It will free America of the scourge of foreign oil dependence, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, weaken the enemies that threaten...
1 million+ comments to stop the KeystoneXL pipeline
For immediate release April 22, 2013 More than One Million Comments Urge Obama Administration to Reject Keystone XL Public Comments highlight that Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is all risk and no reward Washington, DC – Opponents of Keystone XL have...
All We Ever Asked: Keystone, Climate, and the National Interest
“…our national interest will be served only if [Keystone XL] does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. – Barack Obama, June 25th President Obama’s speech on climate change at Georgetown on June 25 made this much clear: he...
Potential Keystone XL refineries continue to increase exports
Refineries that may be supplied by Keystone XL continue to increase exports. Gulf Coast refined product exports have grown 172% since 2008.
Statement on President Obama’s veto threat of Keystone XL legislation
The President is right to threaten a veto of legislation to approve the pipeline, just as he’ll be right to reject Keystone XL once and for all. The pipeline clearly fails the climate test that the President set out last...