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The Keystone XL Shuffle

Tom Weis President, Climate Crisis Solutions

Posted: 06/03/2013 5:28 pm

For the past year, most blog posts, action alerts and appeals to "Stop Keystone XL," "Reject Keystone XL," "Fight Keystone XL" and "Resist Keystone XL" have focused on blocking the pipeline's northern leg, while ignoring President Obama's support .. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/22/expanding-our-oil-and-gas-pipeline-infrastructure .. for the 485-mile southern segment. During this time, TransCanada has been busy building that southern leg .. http://ecowatch.com/2013/fight-against-keystone-xl/ , which is now 75 percent constructed.

This should alarm every climate activist. As Mark Karlin, editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout, warned in a recent editorial .. http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17984-keystone-pipeline-nears-completion-this-summer-as-carbon-dioxide-reaches-record-levels , when the Obama Administration endorsed Keystone XL .. http://ecowatch.com/p/energy/keystone-xl-pipeline-2/ 's southern leg, "the spigot was opened to transport the climate-killing tar sands oil .. http://ecowatch.com/p/energy/oil-tar-sands/ .. to refineries and ports in Texas."

His editorial goes on to say: "What most U.S. citizens don't know -- including most progressives -- is that when the southern pipeline segment starts flowing with tar sands oil in a short while, the fuse will have already ignited the (carbon) bomb." Given that we just passed 400 parts per million .. http://ecowatch.com/2013/400-ppm/ .. of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it is time for every big national environmental group to demand that President Obama extinguish this 485-mile carbon bomb fuse, before it's too late.

As someone who pedaled the entire route in 2011 in support of farmers, ranchers and tribal communities fighting this toxic tar sands pipeline, I am as committed as anyone to blocking TransCanada's northern leg permit, but how can anyone seriously talk about stopping Keystone XL without mentioning the need to stop the actual construction now dangerously close to completion in Texas and Oklahoma?

The key to blocking Keystone XL's northern leg is ensuring that Keystone XL's southern leg never gets completed. If you agree, join me, and more than 5,000 others, in signing .. http://ecowatch.com/2013/stop-keystone-xl-petition/ .. the "Tell President Obama to Stop Construction of the Southern Leg of Keystone XL" petition. We will be delivering the petition to the White House soon, in dramatic fashion.

Cross-posted with EcoWatch .. http://ecowatch.com/2013/the-keystone-xl-shuffle/ .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-weis/the-keystone-xl-shuffle_b_3380444.html

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How the Keystone XL Pipeline Has Become Too Big to Approve
Posted: 05/17/2013 5:12 pm

John Fiege Filmmaker

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-fiege/how-the-keystone-xl-pipel_b_3294748.html

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Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline Nearly Complete
July 9, 2013

Energy & Commerce Committee
United States House of Representatives
Chairman Fred Upton

After 1,754 Days, It’s #TimeToBuild the Rest of the Keystone XL Pipeline

While the president continues to delay construction of the northern route of the Keystone XL pipeline, the southern half of the project, known as the Gulf Coast pipeline, is nearing completion. United Press International reports nearly 80 percent of the 450-mile pipeline has been completed so far this year. Compare this progress to the nearly five years that have passed since TransCanada first submitted its application to build the full Keystone XL project with the U.S. State Department.

it runs on .. http://energycommerce.house.gov/blog/southern-leg-keystone-xl-pipeline-nearly-complete

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Keystone XL’s southern leg nears completion

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:00 am by Zain Shauk in Beaumont, Keystone XL


Wayne Knox, a contractor for TransCanada’s Keystone XL project, looks at a pipe before
it’s lowered into the ground in Wood County, Texas. (Cody Duty / Houston Chronicle)

The southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is more than 75 percent complete and construction is proceeding on schedule, a spokesman for pipeline owner TransCanada told FuelFix.

more with some activist activity links ..
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/05/23/keystone-xls-southern-leg-nears-completion/

Seeeeeee als0:

Has Obama Turned Against Keystone?
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=89370441

‘Every Plant And Tree Died’: Huge Alberta Pipeline Spill
Raises Safety Questions As Keystone Decision Looms


http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=89139470

A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=88066254

Undercover at the Tar Sands
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=87480734

A Million Comments Against Keystone XL
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=86466191

Republican Imposed Budget Cuts Led to Keystone XL Being Deemed Environmentally Sound
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=85759648

arizona, just to link Carl Lenz's, Keystone video
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=85192985

Not Even Close: 2012 Was Hottest Ever in U.S.


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