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Keystone XL: A Choice Between Big Oil or a Sustainable Planet
Posted by EcoWatch: Bill McKibben on March 2nd, 2013
EcoWatch: Last week Time Magazine declared that Keystone XL had become the Stonewall and the Selma of the climate movement--and today we got a reminder of just how tough those fights were, and how tough this one will be.
On a Friday afternoon, with Secretary of State John Kerry half a world away and D.C. focused on the budget fight, the State Department released a new environmental impact statement for the pipeline. Like the last such report, it found that approving a 800,000 barrel-a-day fuse to one of...
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Comments Off on Keystone XL: A Choice Between Big Oil or a Sustainable PlanetCanada: Idle No More—Think Occupy, But With Deep Deep Roots
Posted by EcoWatch: Bill McKibben on January 16th, 2013
EcoWatch: I don`t claim to know exactly what`s going on with Idle No More, the surging movement of indigenous activists that started late last year in Canada and is now spreading across the continent--much of the action, from hunger strikes to road and rail blockades, is in scattered and remote places, and even as people around the world plan for solidarity actions on Friday, the press has done a poor job of bringing it into focus.
But I sense that it`s every bit as important as the Occupy movement that...
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Posted by EcoWatch: Bill McKibben on October 12th, 2012
EcoWatch: I haven`t written about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline for a while, except to try and rally support for the brave people blockading construction along its southern portion. After more than two weeks in the trees of Texas, their dramatic action is drawing more and more attention, as they reveal the recklessness and heartlessness of a company like TransCanada--the kind that will call the cops to get a great-grandmother and arrest her for "trespassing" on her own land when she protests the pipeline...
Keystone XL Blockade Turns Sadistic
Posted by EcoWatch: Bill McKibben on September 27th, 2012
EcoWatch: Watching from a distance is hard. I`m on the move setting up our big roadshow assault on the fossil fuel industry, but the real action is in Texas, where a growing number of blockaders are trying to shut down work on the southern section of the Keystone Pipeline--and where TransCanada, according to the people at the Tar Sands Blockade, is turning more than a little sadistic.
Here`s the story from this morning, as it`s been emerging from a flurry of emails and tweets. (No video--police aren`t letting...