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As Obama Signals Surrender to TransCanada, It’s Time to Focus on Keystone XL’s Southern Leg
Posted by EcoWatch: Tom Weis on March 20th, 2013
EcoWatch: Why aren’t all Keystone XL opponents loudly demanding that President Obama stop construction of the pipeline’s 485-mile southern leg that is destroying the lives of our fellow Americans in Texas and Oklahoma? This is a classic case of something being hidden in plain view.
By approving construction of Keystone XL’s southern leg last spring, our “I’m all for pipelines” president not only sold out the people of Texas and Oklahoma, he is currently lighting the fuse to the tar sands “carbon bomb.”...
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Why the Southern Leg of Keystone XL Must Be Stopped
Posted by EcoWatch: Tom Weis on February 4th, 2013
EcoWatch: With President Obama’s blessing, TransCanada has been laying pipe for the 485-mile southern (OK-TX) leg of Keystone XL in the face of persistent nonviolent direct action by determined landowners and Tar Sands Blockade.
Look at the map below. If the southern leg of TransCanada’s pipeline is allowed to be completed, the fuse to the tar sands "carbon bomb" will be lit.
Connecting the southern leg of Keystone XL to the already built Keystone I (the orange line on the map) would open the floodgates...
The Pipeline President: Obama’s Keystone XL
Posted by EcoWatch: Tom Weis on January 10th, 2013
EcoWatch: Last spring, President Obama made a special trip on Air Force One to the “Pipeline Crossroads of the World” to call for fast-track approval of the southern (OK-TX) leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Note to President Obama: You approved it. You own it.
By now, most people following the Keystone XL saga know that last spring, President Obama made a special trip on Air Force One to the “Pipeline Crossroads of the World” to call for fast-track approval of the southern (OK-TX)...