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Tom Steyer’s Response to the Keystone XL Final Environmental Impact Statement
Posted by EcoWatch: Tom Steyer on February 1st, 2014
EcoWatch: First of all, this is President Obama’s decision, and the State Department’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) is just an input. So we don’t have an answer yet, and the fight is far from over. I remain hopeful that the President will, in fact, apply the test for Keystone he established in his speech at Georgetown University: that the project cannot be approved if it increases the amount of carbon pollution being put into our air, which it does. I trust the President is aware of the opportunity...
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Keystone XL is a Sucker’s Deal For America and a Steal For Foreign Oil Interests
Posted by EcoWatch: Tom Steyer on January 27th, 2014
EcoWatch: For years, TransCanada has been selling the Keystone XL pipeline to Americans with all of the enthusiasm of a used car salesman--and using all of the same tricks. However, one myth is more egregious than all the rest: this pipeline will enhance America’s energy independence.
Apparently, Big Oil lobbyists and politicians take Americans for a bunch of suckers.
Here’s the truth: Keystone XL won’t make America energy independent. It will threaten our land and livelihoods to pump Canadian tar sands’...