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Why is the Fracking Industry Worried Sick Over Promised Land?
Posted by EcoWatch: Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog on December 11th, 2012
EcoWatch: This month Focus Features releases Matt Damon’s new movie Promised Land and the oil and gas industry is worried sick about it.
Promised Land is about a Pennsylvania farm town deciding whether to go forward with shale gas drilling after a team of landmen arrives in the area.
Damon plays one of these landman, who rolls into town presenting himself as a humble flannel-wearing farmboy from Iowa. Damon’s character is an ace salesman, famously good at convincing homeowners to sign away the rights...
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United States: Judge Halts TransCanada Keystone XL Work Over Landowner’s Fraud Claim
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 11th, 2012
Associated Press: A Texas judge has ordered TransCanada to temporarily halt work on a private property where it is building part of an oil pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast, the latest legal battle to plague a project that has encountered numerous obstacles nationwide.
Texas landowner Michael Bishop, who is defending himself in his legal battle against the oil giant, filed his lawsuit in the Nacogdoches County courthouse, arguing that TransCanada lied to Texans when it said...
Keystone XL Review Meaningless Without Considering Climate Impacts
Posted by Bloomberg: Jim Snyder and Rebecca Penty on December 11th, 2012
Bloomberg: The U.S. environmental assessment of a new Keystone XL pipeline route from Canada will be meaningless unless it considers the effect mining of oil sands has on climate change, opponents of the project said.
The State Department may release within days the updated review of the path from Alberta to the Gulf Coast proposed by TransCanada Corp. (TRP) President Barack Obama rejected a route that crossed an aquifer in Nebraska. Environmentalists say producing oil from Alberta’s tar sands releases more...