Sentences with phrase «campaign against the pipeline»

Rooted in climate change dogma, its «keep it in the ground» mantra has become a rallying cry for nasty campaigns against pipeline construction, existing pipelines, drilling and even sand destined for fracking operations.

Opponents have mounted a well - organized, celebrity - studded campaign against the pipeline, arguing it would increase U.S. dependency on the oil sands, which they describe as the world's dirtiest oil.

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Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

Protesters have been buoyed by the recent success of Native American groups and environmentalists in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale fields into Texas.

Keystone has become a can't - lose battle for the environmental movement, with activists staging frequent protests against the pipeline and California billionaire Tom Steyer funding major advertising campaigns to move public opinion.

Though it's not over yet, the campaign against the Northern Gateway pipeline has been one of the most successful ever for B.C.'s environmental movement.

He touched on his past opposition to free - trade agreements, his support for heavier regulations of Wall Street and the nation's banking industry, and his vote against the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a preview of his campaign.

We've also worked together on front - line campaigns, including living wage campaigns, pipeline protests, and struggles against police brutality, environmental racism, coal trains and fracking towers.

In recent days, the candidates have weighed in on the closure of Indian Point and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fracking ban, and advocates are now making an aggressive push to get the campaigns of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to come out against the proposed Constitution pipeline.

He is most recently the founder of the advocacy group 350.org which has led campaigns against the Keystone XL oil pipeline and on behalf of campus divestment from fossil fuel companies.

The Seattle - based foundation started by software billionaire James Letwin paid Dogwood $ 25,000 to run a campaign against the «threat» of the Enbridge pipeline to the B.C. coast.

e360: It's hard to imagine Bill McKibben, for instance, tweaking his message as he campaigns against the Keystone XL pipeline.

We did that in 2017 with the People's Climate March, the Promise to Protect pledge against the Keystone XL pipeline, the anti-fracking campaign in Brazil, and a new regional strategy to curb coal production in East Asia.

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 Canada.

Manana Kochladze, founder of Georgia's largest environmental NGO, Green Alternative, won the Goldman Prize in 2004 for her precedent setting campaign against the Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.

Warren Buffett funneled millions through his family foundation to the secretive Tides Foundation to pressure groups campaigning against the Keystone and Sandpiper Pipelines, thereby benefiting his railroad and tank car companies that haul oil.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen says that the Obama Administration is continuing, even revving up, its campaign against domestic energy production with new EPA regulations on the horizon that would shutter much of the nation's coal industry and do great harm to oil and gas production; he also promised to veto any legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

The campaign against the controversial Kinder Morgan pipeline escalated yesterday when Indigenous leaders from across Canada and the United States came together to inaugurate Kwekwecnewtxw - «the place to watch from» - whilst others started building a traditional Coast Salish «Watch House» near the pipeline route.

Throughout the campaign, Clark has painted the NDP as being against development and business, a case helped by leader Adrian Dix's Earth Day announcement of opposition to the expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline to Burnaby and the resulting increase in tanker traffic.