Sentences with phrase «tar sands expansion»

She added the pipeline would mean more tar sands expansion that will impact First Nations everywhere by fueling climate change.

The Kinder Morgan pipeline — and the tar sands expansion it would enable — are incompatible with the federal government's commitments under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and threaten to worsen the national crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

1,000 MW coal fired plants to heat oil shale, tar sands expansion, enhanced oil recovery, etc..

The review used this assumption to get out of any meaningful consideration of the climate pollution from tar sands expansion, and in this time of worsening climate change that is not acceptable.

In Canada, its work focuses on national campaigns to freeze tar sands expansion, support opposition to pipelines like Energy East and Kinder Morgan, and work in solidarity with the struggle for Indigenous rights.

Tar sands expansion isn't just a pressing danger for the climate, it violates Indigenous rights and steamrolls over communities.

Reading through the assessment section on Climate Change Impacts, it seems the State Department only took into account the impacts of climate change on the pipeline project, rather than the far more important analysis of the impacts of Keystone XL and tar sands expansion driving climate change disruption.

So many people dedicated immense efforts because of how Energy East would have trampled over Indigenous rights, accelerated climate change, threatened clean water sources, and lock us in the frenzy of tar sands expansion for several more decades.

For example, the State Department's EIS for Keystone XL claimed that the approval of any one pipeline project is unlikely to have significant climate impacts because other tar sands pipelines are sure to be built in the future, allowing unchecked tar sands expansion in any scenario.

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.

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

They bore witness to the destructive project and built solidarity with Indigenous Peoples resisting tar sands expansion in Canada.

Keystone XL's proponents argue that because tar sands expansion is inevitable, the Obama Administration need not consider the significant carbon emissions associated with projects like Keystone XL.

That means absolutely no tar sands expansion projects like Kinder Morgan.

We hope the story that these numbers tell not only builds momentum for a people - powered safe climate future, but inspires political leaders to face the crux of the tar sands head on: tar sands expansion has no place in a climate safe world.

New pipelines would mean massive tar sands expansion that is incompatible with a safe global climate.

The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will drive tar sands expansion.

The scientists — more than a quarter of whom are from the United States — issued a declaration of «10 Reasons for a Moratorium» on tar sands expansion and related projects such as the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

In the end, Jaccard concludes that Keystone XL should be rejected because it will hinder tar sands expansion and the doubling of greenhouse gas emissions it will cause, and that «believing otherwise is nothing more than a magician's delusion.

«The same people - power movements that have stalled other ill - conceived tar sands pipeline projects will rise up to tell our governments we need to invest in clean energy, not tar sands expansion,» Mike Hudema, a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Canada, said in a statement

The same people - power movements that have stalled other ill - conceived tar sands pipeline projects will rise up to tell our governments we need to invest in clean energy, not tar sands expansion.»

Unwilling to press for a rational, staged development, Harper has ensured that tar sands expansion will continue to keep the value of the Canadian dollar high and make our manufactured goods uncompetitive.

Not exact matches

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.

West Coast Environmental Law is working to prevent the expansion of the tar sands by opposing pipelines and tanker projects in BC in order to protect our watersheds, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, our climate, and the human communities that rely on them.

Tar sands producers don't need more pipeline capacity to maintain current production levels, only to enable even further expansion.

We community organizers and concerned citizens aren't proposing to stop the tar sands overnight; saying no to Kinder Morgan is merely saying no to further expansion of this industry.

In the face of a court challenge from a broad coalition of environmental and community groups and massive community opposition, the DEC today halted Global Companies» proposed expansion of its massive Albany oil train facility to handle tar sands oil.

Global's facility in Albany could become a major footprint for the expansion of tar sands shipments to the East Coast.

NASA has posted a series of satellite photos documenting the expansion of the Athabasca tar sands.

Such options include the inevitable expansion of Canada's own tar / oil sands (Keith Kloor has nicely knitted several views of this option), ever more coal production and the global push to tap greatly expanded reserves of natural gas.

Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar sands... oil out of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining.»

We are a network of over 50 non-profit environmental organizations, First Nations, community groups and landowners working to stop the expansion of the tar sands and promote the transition to a clean energy economy.

«The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans... [and] offers us a small sample of the risk that tar sands pipelines pose to American communities.»

The report held the assumption that unfettered expansion of the Alberta tar sands would happen regardless of politics, economics, or the climate.

«The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans,» wrote NRDC's Anthony Swift in a blog post.

«Nearly three years after the Kalamazoo river spill, tar sands pipeline companies are pushing ahead with major expansion plans without doing due diligence of the risks associated with tar sands diluted bitumen transport on pipelines....

This is a critical element of the draft environmental review because while State determined that tar sands is dirtier than conventional oil, it concludes that Keystone XL would have little impact on the expansion of tar sands and therefore policymakers and the public needn't consider the impacts of that expansion.

Expansion depends on tar sands being able to reach the high prices of overseas markets.

And without Keystone XL, financial analysts are already saying that the tar sands industry's expansion plan will go off the rails.

We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty tar sands oil development.

Are you committed to stopping the expansion of pipelines and the development of the tar sands?

And that will require Canadians to play a larger role in deciding whether a massive expansion of tar sands development is prudent.

Fracking has expanded to the majority of the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara nations, (Ft. Berthold) and a new pipeline for the Bakken fracked oil is proposed to go from North Dakota into Minnesota, adjacent to the Enbridge pipeline which is seeking expansion from 440,000 barrels to 800,000 barrels per day of dilbit, or tar sands oil.

Industry's correspondence with the Canadian government implicitly recognizes that by providing a low cost transportation solution, Keystone XL would reduce costs and enable significant additional expansion of tar sands production.

Congressman Waxman and Senator Whitehouse challenge the underlying assumption of State's review — that the expansion of tar sands is inevitable.

In addition, a major expansion of Imperial Oil's Kearl oil sands project recently came online in the midst of the down cycle, further depressing prices for tar sands oil.

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

Citing over a dozen financial analysts, government officials, and research institutes, they assert that, «Basic economics informs us that there is nothing inevitable about the projected rate of expansion of the tar sands.»

And at the moment every single major pipeline (as well as incremental expansions to existing pipelines) is facing mounting public, legal, and political opposition — all of which has been driven by people power that refuses to accept the devastating impacts of the Alberta tar sands on the climate, the environment, human rights, and communities.

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.