Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel pipelines»

Reassesses the impact of new fossil fuel pipelines and liquefied natural gas export terminals on Canada's ability to fulfill its commitment to fight climate change.

She's a champion for climate change solutions that create good, family - supporting jobs, and she supports bold action to stop dangerous and dirty fossil fuel pipelines and move us toward the 100 % renewable energy - powered future that Iowa and the planet need.

Washington greens were not alone in drawing that conclusion, of course — it is reflected in the national climate movement as well, which has focused in recent years on allying with local and indigenous groups to fight coal plants and fossil fuel pipelines.

We followed our own advice and switched our organizational account to a community development bank that supports low to moderate income neighborhoods — not fossil fuel pipelines.»

This is in addition to the proposed and highly contentious Keystone XL line, which, if it comes on line will add 880,000 barrels per day into the North American fossil fuel pipelines.

From the U.S. / Turtle Island, I stand in solidarity with the Native American, First Nations, and other indigenous nations, near, far, and wide against ALL fossil fuel pipeline projects!!

A district judge in ruled that 13 fossil fuel pipeline protesters were not responsible for any infraction because of the necessity of their actions.

Not exact matches

Asian investors in particular are growing weary of Canada's sluggish pace of building energy infrastructure — the pipelines and liquefied natural gas facilities needed to get Canadian fossil fuels to offshore markets.

«New pipelines to transition to clean energy» is Canada's own form of climate denial Watching Prime Minister Trudeau celebrate President Trump's executive order reviving the Keystone XL pipeline got me thinking: how is it that our «progressive» Canadian leader is siding with the climate - denying U.S. president on major fossil fuel expansion?

Viewed in one dimension, the standoff over construction of a 1,172 - mile, $ US 3.8 billion oil pipeline pits thousands of protesters massed on the prairie to safeguard a sole source of tribal drinking water from the fossil fuel industry and its allies in government and finance.

Yet the opponents of fossil fuels don't seem to care that their opposition to pipelines will damage Canadian exports and competitiveness.

Sister Rachelâ $ ™ s traveling pipeline revival, spanning these last two weeks, may not have effected any conversions among the fossil fuel haters or political blockers; her evangelistic efforts are unli...

The company behind the Dakota Access pipeline and many other damaging fossil fuel projects — Energy Transfer Partners — was the focus of nearly 20 actions spanning 10 U.S. states last week.

That pricing power seems to be becoming even stronger during the downturn as pipelines consolidate and expansion of alternatives for moving fossil fuels become more difficult due to capital constraints.

Though his administration has stopped two major fossil fuel transmission projects in the past year, Cuomo says he supports pipeline construction in New York «as long as they're done well and done correctly.»

He is calling for single - payer health care for all, more school aid, a ban on new fossil fuel plants and pipelines, and «100 percent clean renewable energy within 15 years.»

After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

Zephyr Teachout claimed that John Faso «took» money from fossil fuel companies while they were trying to use eminent domain to build a pipeline on the properties of residents in the 19th Congressional District.

«And John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline.»

We expect that — as the federal Department of State's assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline showed — new fossil fuels and climate action are incompatible.»

In that time, environmental and community groups turned the 124 - mile pipeline, which would have connected gas from Pennsylvania's robust fracking industry into a network of pipelines that terminate in Schoharie County, into a powerful symbol of the fossil fuel industry that causes climate change.

They have also said that pipelines increase reliance on fossil fuel, rather than shifting toward clean energy sources.

Hawkins opposes any investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas pipelines and power plants, LNG port terminals, liquefied propane and butane and natural gas storage in the Seneca Lake salt caverns, and crude oil heaters at the Port of Albany.

While fossil fuel opponents hail the decision as a step toward using more renewables, the pipeline company may appeal to the federal government which could have the final say.

They want Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to go on record against building more pipelines for fossil fuel based energy.

Since the NYC funds control about $ 175 billion, if they dump fossil fuels and pipelines, it will be a globally - significant victory.

Because water is increasingly energy - intensive to produce, we will likely be relying on fossil fuels for pumping water from deeper aquifers or for moving it through longer pipelines.

Their approach could lead to improvements in longevity for alloys used in fossil fuel plants, bridges, pipelines, fuel cells, and many other applications.

Isn't the main problem that, even if we stopped adding any fossil - fuel - derived CO2 to the atmosphere, the ocean circulations haven't yet reached «steady state» — i.e., a stable thermocline and deep ocean temperature — and therefore THAT is the source of the Hansen et al. «heat in the pipeline»?

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.

«Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel...» Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial - food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it.

A card - carrying unfettered capitalist, Trump will likely do a range of things — from approving the Keystone pipeline to eliminating regulations to promoting fossil fuel development to cutting corporate taxes — that will lead to higher corporate profits.

The current focus of the war on fossil fuels is the fight to stop the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline being developed by Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics in the mid-western U.S. Protesters have gathered across the country to make their voices heard, and they're hitting the companies behind the pipeline where it hurts — in the pocketbook — by going after the 38 banks providing the financing.

Toronto About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.

Also, the idea is to keep warming below +1.5 ºC even with the current energy imbalance (warming in the pipeline) and reductions in aerosols that accompany emissions reductions (though Hansen says the impact of aerosols from fossil fuels was overstated and other manmade aerosols seem to dominate).

Providing a «pipeline» for the dirtiest of fossil fuels opens a valve which essentially assures failure.....

The Keystone XL pipeline is unique in that it poses both a supreme environmental threat and is gravely symbolic; a harbinger of a certain fossil fuel - dependent doom, if you will.

He also happens to be right that our nation's top scientists say that evidence for human - caused global warming is «unequivocal», and that approving this pipeline will both symbolically and literally tether our fate to a fossil fuel - dependent economy for the foreseeable future.

With his peripatetic campus - focused campaign for divestment in stocks of fossil fuel companies and the fight to pressure President Obama to block the Keystone XL pipeline, McKibben has given new meaning to the word overdrive.

Mongabay: Why did climate activists choose to focus on the pipeline over the Obama administration's approval of drilling in the Arctic, which is opening a new source of fossil fuels and, if a spill occurs, could be near - impossible to clean - up?

But after years of disappointments on climate issues, protestors say that dropping the pipeline is a chance for the Obama Administration to prove it is still serious about combating climate change and freeing the US from its long dependence on fossil fuels.

Through innovative technology, biogas is captured, cleaned up, and injected onto the national natural gas pipeline, displacing fossil fuel - based gas and reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.

Trudeau and his colleagues have a choice, either go down in history as government that sacrificed climate action and Indigenous reconciliation for a pipeline, or recognize that thousands of people in Canada are ready to support real climate action that respects Indigenous rights and keeps fossil fuels in the ground.

Prague, Brussels, Rome, London — Today the board of directors of the European Investment Bank (EIB) green - lighted a EUR 93 million loan to the Trans Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP), the Turkish section of the Southern Gas Corridor, a month after handing out the largest ever fossil fuels loan to the western section of the same project.

We support indigenous peoples in resisting fossil fuel projects, such as the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, which endanger the health of their lands and waters.

Most of the opposition to Keystone XL has nothing to do with our pipeline — it's about groups or individuals who want to end the use of fossil fuels.»

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.