Sentences with phrase «against tar sands»

Clearly, Anonymous's support for both issues will cause some serious ambivalence amongst the numerous activists and concerned citizens already working to secure a GMO - free label and to push back against the tar sands — the vocal support of a radical, high - profile hacker's collective doesn't exactly spur solidarity for the causes in middle America.

Yesterday was a big moment in the fight against tar sands.

The report puts tar sands development lost revenue at $ 30.9 billion from 2010 through 2013, in part due to the changing North American oil market but largely because of a fierce grassroots movement against tar sands development.

And while none of Harper's opponents have explicitly come out against tar sands expansion, and even Liberal Party candidate Justin Trudeau has

Stand up against the tar sands.»

West Coast works with First Nations and communities fighting against tar sands pipelines in the courtroom, in boardrooms, on the land and on the water.

Not exact matches

He used the term «tar sands,» one the advocates of Canada's bitumen sector have long argued is, by itself, biased against the «oil sands.»

At the same time, we draw inspiration and lessons from the victory against Enbridge for the ongoing fight against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which would see a sevenfold increase in tar sands tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea.

The biggest environmental story of the year was the company's enormous tar sands pipeline, and the backlash against it — a movement built around a simple idea: If this project is built, we can kiss a stable climate goodbye.

In the wake of the high - profile protests against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and 1,250 arrests, some of the world's best - known Nobel Peace Prize winners are lending their voices in opposition to the 1,700 mile project that would bring Canadian tar sands oil down to Texas.

Green leaders issue a global, social media - based rallying call to push back against an effort to pass the tar sands oil pipeline through the Senate tomorrow.

Environmentalists argue that the U.S. president needs to take a stand against further development of tar sands oil, which is more carbon - intensive than conventional crude oil, and will put the world on what they call an unsustainable energy path.

It's time to take a stand against the Keystone XL pipeline, a dangerous and destructive project that would pump over one million barrels of dirty «tar sands» oil from Canada to the USA every day.

Organizers are concerned about Canada's relentless lobbying against a key piece of EU climate policy, the Fuel Quality Directive, which aims to reduce imports of highly polluting fuels such as tar sands and synthetic oil from coal into Europe.

Last May, we brought the Pacific Climate Warriors, Pacific Island activists organizing against fossil fuels, to the Canadian tar sands to build solidarity with Indigenous allies.

Last May, a delegation of Pacific Islanders travelled to Canada to bear witness to the tar sands and fight against the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of CanaTar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Canatar sands oil out of Canada.

With the President's decision fast approaching, we enthusiastically applaud the efforts of these Congressional champions for speaking out against Keystone XL and tar sands expansion.

Strike two against the Obama administration was the permission it granted early in the president's term to build a pipeline into Minnesota and Wisconsin to handle oil pouring out of the tar sands of Alberta.

Last summer, Power Shift helped a group of 13 young Minnesotans win the right to represent themselves in court against Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands pipeline.

Video of meeting to protest Enbridge's tar sand pipeline, organized by Toronto East End Against Line 9, August 25, 2013

Why: To tell Barack Obama it's time to lead in the fight against climate change, beginning with the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Edit and send the message below, urging your members of Congress to stand up against the dangerous Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline.

The report attributes 55 % of the lost revenue, or $ 17 billion, to the diverse citizen protests against pipelines and the tar sands.

With the recent protests against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and the State Department's favorable environmental impact assessment, it was with great interest that CSW turned to the September 15 teleconference co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute and Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP.

Local organizing is winning big fights against fracking and tar - sands pipelines.

McKibben, who spent much of the summer organizing protests in Washington, D.C. against increased U.S. imports of oil from Canada's tar sands, called on Bellingham residents to join in another battle against increasing fossil fuel trade.

To learn more and join the growing fight against TransCanada's tar sands boondoggle, visit http://www.foe.org/keystone-xl-pipeline.

Another critic argues that the studies fail to consider no - till cultivation of biofuel crops, which actually increase soil carbon storage, and that corn ethanol plants are converting to renewable energy, thus decreasing their emissions - meanwhile they are competing against fossil fuels like oil from tar sands that have an increased carbon footprint even compared to conventional gasoline.

Regardless of who wins the election, that means standing firm against the continued expansion of the fossil fuel sector into new and high - risk territories, whether through tar sands, fracking, coal exports to China or Arctic drilling.

I'm still not entirely comfortable with nuclear but I admit ignorance there and thus don't really advocate directly against it (PS somewhat the same position with GM foods / crops); what I know enough to be afraid of and advocate against is a BAU future of coal, oil, and gas, especially one without CCS or other sequestration, with mountaintop removal mining, with tar sands, with fracking (you may already be aware of the radioactivity associated with that), Hg, escalating prices, etc (and you would be against this too, I'm sure).

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Furthermore, top climate scientists like NASA's James Hansen have warned against further developing «extreme energy» sources like tar sands, seeing as how global emissions are still ballooning.

The anti-Keystone movement can be traced to former NASA climate scientist James Hansen's dire warning in June 2011 that if the pipeline were built it would be «exceedingly difficult to control the tar sands monster» and would be «game over» in the fight against climate change.

More damning evidence against Enbridge over the Michigan pipeline failure back in 2010, that spilled tar sands oil in the Kalamazoo river: The Detroit Free Press reports that the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board says Enbridge knew about the very problem that led to the spill five years beforehand and did nothing about it.

Politically, the rest of Canada may continue rushing to all things tar sands and unconventional fossil fuels, but Quebec is a different story: Vancouver Sun reports that Quebec's new natural resources minister has come out swinging against fracking.

As the protests against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline begin tomorrow in Washington DC, here's another stat

In a report released last week, Oil Change International and the Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis demonstrated how the movement against Keystone XL and other tar sands pipelines has contributed to a decline in the profitability of the tar sands industry.

Kinder Morgan's suit came after a two - and - a-half year battle against its plan to «twin» a 60 - year - old pipeline not designed for, but now carrying, tar sands diluted bitumen through Burnaby to a supertanker marine terminal on the municipality's northern border.

In addition, 150 Indigenous Nations in Canada and the US have signed the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion in opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline and all other attempts to allow more tar sands production, including Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelinTar Sands Expansion in opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline and all other attempts to allow more tar sands production, including Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelintar sands production, including Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelines.

In the face of unrelenting corporate development and encroachment onto Indigenous territories, grassroots movements are persistently mobilizing against the various tentacles of the tar sands industry.