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Once the Underdog in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders Pulls Out a Win in the State's Primary 
 
Emily Atkin and Alice Ollstein, Think Progress 
Excerpt: "This time last year, Sen. Bernie Sanders was relatively unknown in Wisconsin. Four months later, in August 2015, polls still showed Sanders trailing Clinton by about 12 percentage points. Fast forward to Tuesday night, and Wisconsin clearly knows about Sanders." 
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Andrew Bacevich | Presidential Wars - the President's Blank Check on War! 
Andrew Bacevich, Tom Dispatch 
Bacevich writes: "Let's face it: in times of war, the Constitution tends to take a beating. With the safety or survival of the nation said to be at risk, the basic law of the land - otherwise considered sacrosanct - becomes nonbinding, subject to being waived at the whim of government authorities who are impatient, scared, panicky, or just plain pissed off." 
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How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes 
Marcelo Rochabrun, ProPublica 
Rochabrun writes: "The charity paid millions in federal stimulus funds to developers shortly after longtime tenants were pushed out. 'We are spending federal money to throw low-income New Yorkers out of buildings,' wrote a Habitat whistleblower." 
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Skeptics Said $15 Minimum Wage Movement Was Unrealistic - 60 Million People Are Now Slated to Get It 
Zaid Jilani, The Intercept 
Jilani writes: "The Fight for 15 movement began when several hundred fast-food workers in New York City went on a brief strike to call for higher wages; by the next year, this movement had spread to dozens of cities, with workers going on miniature strikes and protest marches to call for a $15 an hour wage." 
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1 in 11 US Gun Deaths Is at the Hands of Police. How Do We Stop the Killing? 
Arun Gupta, Yes! Magazine 
Gupta writes: "It wasn't until 2015 that a full year of police killings had been tabulated. 1,019 people were killed by police gunfire last year. That number is roughly 9 percent of all gun-related homicides annually in the United States." 
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Nomi Prins | Brazilian Politics, Players, Panama and Perpetual Motion 
Nomi Prins, Nomi Prins' Website 
Prins writes: "There is no simplifying Brazil's political or economic situation. Anyone 'certain' about the outcome is sure to get smacked in its crossfires sooner or later." 
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Keystone Leaks and Reminds Us Why We're Glad There Isn't an XL Pipeline Out There 
Kate Yoder, Grist 
Yoder writes: "A major section of the original Keystone pipeline is out of commission after an oil spill near the pipeline was detected in South Dakota on April 2. The spill, estimated at 187 gallons of crude oil, serves as a reminder of the risks that pipelines pose - and that with the Obama administration's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, we've likely avoided the potential for an even bigger, more disastrous spill." 
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Pipelines and Propaganda: Kinder Morgan's Massachusetts pipeline

LETTER BELOW

Bold Nebraska

 

Great Pipeline Fighter letter to the editor by Beatrice Heinze of
Beverly, Mass:

"Our grandchildren will have to deal with gas leaks from aging pipes in the river basin... It is not fair for Washington, D.C., planners to dictate to us that their gas line takes priority over the water supply for thousands of us. It is not fair for some PAC to be buying air time on WBZ Boston radio touting how great the LNG industry is going to be for our communities."

Letter: Pipeline would endanger region’s water supply

To the editor:

SALEMNEWS.COM

Middleboro Review

Bold Nebraska 

HA. This is (somewhat) refreshing: A pro-drilling news website pans the $2.5 million in grants that pipeline builder Williams just doled out in "corporate bribes" to help quash local opposition:

"We won’t harp yet again about how we feel about paying local (very worthy) groups and organizations money to support your pipeline project BEFORE it’s approved and built (cough *borderline sleazy* cough)."

More Pipeline Payola: Williams Doles Out $2.5M in PA Grants

We won't harp yet again about how we feel about paying local (very worthy) groups and organizations money to support your pipeline project BEFORE it's approved and built (cough *borderline sleazy* ...

MARCELLUSDRILLING.COM

Bold Nebraska

 

"An area attorney recently likened the back-and-forth between property owners and pipeline companies to gambling, saying: 'It’s like playing poker and having a bluffing hand. You typically have to let them walk away from the table a few times.' "

Our Opinion: Pipeline proposals leave area landowners feeling uncertain, isolated

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It makes no difference - there are accidents, pipelines get old, they leak, are poorly maintained. 
Massachusetts is NOT safe!

Letter: Pipeline would endanger region’s water supply

Posted: Monday, June 29, 2015 8:05 pm

To the editor:

I wish to rebut the statements made in the June 26 editorial column by Nelson Benton. He stated “Peabody’s politicians are united in their opposition to Kinder Morgan’s proposal to build a new gas pipeline through its western suburbs. No one wants them in their backyard, but everyone wants service...”

Granted, there are many “backyard” issues. But, not all the pipeline is in the “backyard.” The proposed pipeline will run through the Ipswich River basin, so close to the river that the water is visible from the pipeline; and also in an unreasonable proximity to a quarry that blasts to conduct business. Any layman can assume that blasting might cause cracks in the high-pressure piping. If there were a fracture in the pipeline, any resulting leaks would pollute the Ipswich River.

Our grandchildren will have to deal with gas leaks from aging pipes in the river basin. Also, the pipeline will need to be kept vegetation-free for maintenance purposes. Because it runs through the wetlands, the most economical way to do that is to spray weed killers on the greenery ..... weed killers that Kinder Morgan assures us are “safe to have leeching in the drinking water supply”.

The Ipswich River is used by Peabody and many other communities for their municipal water supply. My Beverly/Salem water supply, like Peabody’s, is drawn from the Ipswich River and also from the river basin via the Great Wenham Swamp. The pipeline/river basin pollution issue also includes the aquifers for Lynnfield, North Reading, Middleton, Danvers, Topsfield, Boxford, North Andover, Wenham, Hamilton and Ipswich ... not to mention the downstream Ipswich clam industry.

Kinder Morgan passed out maps at the hearing. But none of their maps showed an overlay of the Ipswich River and the watershed feeders into the Ipswich River Basin.

It is scary to see the implications of their proposed pipeline.

It is not fair for Washington, D.C., planners to dictate to us that their gas line takes priority over the water supply for thousands of us. It is not fair for some PAC to be buying air time on WBZ Boston radio touting how great the LNG industry is going to be for our communities.

The pollution danger to the vital water supply of Essex County is too great to risk. I commend Mayor Bettencourt and Peabody officials, and state Rep. Spiliotis, for raising their voices in opposition to the current plan of laying the pipe in its proposed location. 

Posted: Monday, June 29, 2015 8:05 pm

Beatrice Heinze

Beverly

http://www.salemnews.com/opinion/letter-pipeline-would-endanger-region-s-water-supply/article_feec0841-6670-5863-ae1c-24145a6ccddd.html

RSN: Pipelines Leak and the People Who Own Them Lie

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A massive fire roars following a natural gas pipeline rupture that killed eight people and injured more than 60 on Sept. 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California. (photo: AP)

Pipelines Leak and the People Who Own Them Lie

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

22 April 15

iger Beat On The Potomac almost gets it right today in its longform analysis of the dangers of the country's energy pipelines, and, specifically, of how the Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which is supposed to be the federal regulatory body governing the nation's pipeline, has been rendered toothless by the usual suspects -- except, alas, the usual suspects go unnamed. It doesn't make me want to guzzle the Chateau Petrus, but it's worth a nice cold Leinie's lager in a frosted schooner.

"There is nowhere today the sense that the Office of Pipeline Safety is in charge," Jim Hall said then, "or that its regulations, its inspections, its assets, its staffing and its spirit are adequate to the task." Bellingham was supposed to change that. But more than 15 years later, Hall says he sees little evidence of meaningful improvements. "Unfortunately," he told POLITICO, "I think I would give the same speech today."

There are some genuinely terrifying statistics about how old some of these pipelines are, and the piece is admirably replete with horror stories about what happens when pipelines leak and when they explode, or both, some of which got by me completely because, often, they take place in out of the way places. You know, the kind of places where Real Americans live, according to many of the politicians who patronize them every couple of years and then arrange the economy so that their backyards turn to glop and their pastures detonate.

The ruptured pipe leaked more than 840,000 gallons of oil sands crude into a creek that fed the Kalamazoo River, ultimately spreading for 35 miles. The operator, Canadian oil giant Enbridge, misread alarms in its control room and twice tried to pump more fuel through the broken line. Seventeen hours passed before oil was shut off for good. At the time, it was the largest onshore oil spill in U.S. history. But Marshall got scant attention in 2010 as the public and policymakers focused on the Gulf of Mexico. The Zinn family saw the Michigan disaster up close. The family's land was a few hundred feet from the nearly 7-foot gash in Enbridge's pipeline. Four decades earlier, the family's patriarch, Frank Zinn, had fought in vain to stop the 30-inch-diameter pipe from being laid across his property. He had been assured that a major spill was unlikely.

The companies lie. Pipelines leak. Pipelines explode. People die. The companies lie again.

It does seem from the story that PHMSA is fairly hopeless at this point, but good luck getting the monkeyhouse to pass any legislation to deal with the fact that huge swaths of the country are basically land mines at this point. In fact, there are a couple of macro questions that the TBOTP does not confront in a major way, and they are vividly illustrated in this account of the disastrous 2013 rupture that deluged Mayflower, Arkansas with 200,000 gallons of heavy crude.

The Little Rock suburb's congressman at the time was Tim Griffin, a staunch Republican and former Karl Rove aide who is skeptical of federal regulations and strongly in favor of pipelines. But after the Pegasus pipe burst, forcing the evacuation of 21 homes, Griffin challenged PHMSA's secrecy in a way that few others have. When ExxonMobil, the owner of the 65-year-old pipeline, refused to release the full engineering analysis conducted after the leak, PHMSA deferred to the oil company's decision. So Griffin obtained a copy of the massive report and posted it on his congressional website. Weeks later, he released three more reports on the failed pipeline's condition that ExxonMobil and PHMSA had tried to keep under wraps. "They politely requested that I not" share the data, Griffin recalled in an interview. "And I did."

Griffin, now serving as Arkansas's Lieutenant Governor, is a true believer. In fact, he was one of the U.S. Attorneys that got jammed into office when Karl Rove was ratfking the Department of Justice during the last administration. As a member of Congress, he was very much the typical conservative on the subject of environmental laws, and federal regulations in general. What he did in this case was very much the right thing but, just for the hell of it, let's check his most recent campaign and see how deeply the lessons of Mayflower took.

The EPA's proposed expansion of the 'waters of the United States' would subject Arkansans, especially farmers and ranchers, to costly and overly burdensome federal regulations, harm our agriculture industry that is vital to our state's economy and replace state and locally based conservation efforts with a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach. Our vote today stops this massive government overreach in its tracks and requires federal agencies to consult with states and local governments when proposing these regulatory measures on local waters."

I think the definition of "costly and overly burdensome federal regulations" in our present context is directly proportional to how greasy a lack of effective federal regulations made your constituents. And does Tim Griffin love him some death funnel? You bet he does.

Congressman Griffin is sponsoring the bill to force the Obama Administration to approve the XL Pipeline without the environmental review now required by law. What's odd is that Griffin represents Arkansas, a state with no stake in the Pipeline. [Editor's note: There IS the tube plant in Little Rock, but its work on that project is complete except for shipment.]But the Kochs have a stake in Griffin. In his maiden run for Congress, Griffin was elected with an eye-popping $167,000 donation from the Kochs. For $167,000, any congressman will wash your car — with their tongue. For the Kochs, $167K is peanuts. Their political action operation, Americans for Prosperity, built a quarter billion dollar fund this past year, a sum never seen even in the US politics cash swamp.

And there are both unanswered questions, dancing in a graceful gavotte to keep the piece from a real conclusion. TBOTP's piece has a serious "both sides do it" element running through it. It engages one critic from each party -- Fred Upton is the Republican and Peter DeFazio is the Democrat -- and it is tough on the current administration for neglecting the PHMSA. (There hasn't even been a permanent director since October. Stop me if you've heard that one before.) But the fact remains that there is not a single Republican presidential candidate who says anything about federal regulations except what a job-killer they are. There is not a single Republican politician who has stood up in any substantial way against the deregulatory frenzy that has overtaken the party over the past 35 years, and against the government-is-the-problem philosophy from which it emerged when Saint Ronnie began the process of rolling back the stone from the tomb of the Mellons and the Carnegies. Support for the Keystone XL death funnel is as rigid a litmus test within the party as anything is.

 

In 2013, the folks at InsideClimate won a Pulitzer for their investigation of the Enbridge spill that TBOTP mentions. And one of the things they discovered was that the approach of the two parties on the issue of regulating pipelines tracked perfectly with what you might have expected.

President Barack Obama's 2013 budget would increase funding for the agency. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's budget does not specify how much PHMSA should receive, but it recommended slashing funding for the Department of Transportation, which encompasses PHMSA.

The Democratic party has been feckless and timid on this subject. The Republicans, on the other hand, especially now that the Supreme Court has legitimized influence peddling on a grand scale, have been little more than vandals. That makes a difference, or ought to, anyway.

 

 

 

 

CLG: Sunoco oil pipeline leaks in Ohio nature preserve, More Radiation Escapes from New Mexico Nuclear Waste Facility, et al

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Breaking: Objects may be from missing Malaysia Airlines jet: Tony Abbott 20 Mar 2014 Two objects possibly related to the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane have been spotted in the southern Indian Ocean, Tony Abbott says. "The task of locating these objects will be extremely difficult...and it may be they do not relate to the aircraft," the Prime Minister told parliament. Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished on March 8 after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur carrying 239 passengers and crew, including six Australians. Australian aircraft have been scouring the Indian Ocean for signs of wreckage.

TEPCO says 13,000 tons of radioactive water may need to be cleaned again 19 Mar 2014 The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Wednesday that it may have to clean some 13,000 tons of radioactive water all over again, as it has found its water treatment system was not working properly. The Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS, has been developed to drastically reduce the radiation level of highly contaminated water that is accumulating at the plant. But it has been plagued with trouble and its test-run period has been prolonged.

ALPS decontamination system malfunctions again at Fukushima plant 19 Mar 2014 Key decontamination equipment at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has malfunctioned again, resulting in radioactive water being stored in tanks meant for treated water, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said March 18. The utility said the problem occurred in the B unit of the multi-nuclide removal equipment called ALPS (advanced liquid processing system). TEPCO said there were no irregularities on March 14. But on March 17, the utility found that water supposedly treated at the B unit contained about 10 million becquerels of radioactive substances per liter.

More Radiation Escapes from New Mexico Nuclear Waste Facility 19 Mar 2014 Sensors at a U.S. atomic-waste repository in New Mexico have detected a second release of radiation in less than a month, the Associated Press reports. A brief spike in radioactivity readings occurred on March 11 at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the Energy Department said on Tuesday. The incident followed a Feb. 14 leak that exposed 17 personnel to contaminants radiation and rendered underground portions of the site inaccessible to workers.

Greenpeace Storms EDF Nuclear Plant at Fessenheim in East France 18 Mar 2014 Police arrested dozens of anti-nuclear campaigners after they entered France's oldest atomic plant, operator Electricite de France SA (EDF) said. More than 60 Greenpeace protesters stormed the site at Fessenheim near the German border before dawn and unfurled a large banner that read "Stop Risking Europe."

World's most pristine waters are polluted by US Navy waste 15 Mar 2014 The American military has poured hundreds of tonnes of human sewage and waste water into a protected coral lagoon on the British-owned base of Diego Garcia over three decades in breach of environmental rules, The Independent can reveal. The Indian Ocean base on the Chagos Islands has been one of the world’s most isolated and controversial military installations since Britain forcibly removed hundreds of islanders in the early 1970s, abandoning them to destitution, to make way for US forces including nuclear submarines and bombers. It has emerged that US Navy vessels have been discharging waste water, including treated sewage, into the clear lagoon ever since a naval support station was established on Diego Garcia in the early 1980s.

Sunoco oil pipeline leaks in Ohio nature preserve 18 Mar 2014 After a major oil pipeline owned by [eco-terrorists] Sunoco Logistics Partners LP leaked hundreds of barrels of crude oil into a nature preserve next to the Great Miami River in southwest Ohio, clean-up operations began on Tuesday. Crews vacuumed oil that had leaked from the Mid-Valley pipeline into a wetland area of the Oak Glen Nature Preserve, 20 miles (32 km) north of Cincinnati, according to local officials. The 240-barrel (10,000-gallons/38,000-liter) spill has been contained, Sunoco said in a statement.

Israeli minister hints at action against Iran 18 Mar 2014 Israel's defense minister says his country cannot depend on the United States to lead an action against Iran's nuclear program and that Israel can only rely on itself. [Really? What about the *billions* in US tax d-llars?] Moshe Yaalon says Israel believed "the one who should lead the campaign against Iran is the U.S." but instead, Washington began talks with Tehran. He says Iran has the upper hand in the talks and that "we (Israelis) have to look out for ourselves."

Ukraine quits CIS, sets visa regime with Russia, wants Crimea as 'demilitarized zone' 19 Mar 2014 The interim government in Kiev says Ukraine will leave the commonwealth of post-Soviet states and force Russians to apply for entry visas, and plans to ask the United Nations to make Crimea a demilitarized zone. The raft of measures - a response to Russia's incorporation of Crimea into its territory following Sunday's referendum - was announced by National Security and Defense Council chief Andrey Parubiy during a press briefing in Kiev. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was founded to maintain economic and security links between former Soviet republics when they became independent states in 1991.

Pro-Russian forces enter Ukraine navy's Black Sea HQ 19 Mar 2014 Pro-Russian self-defence forces have entered the Ukrainian navy's Black Sea headquarters in Sevastopol and raised the Russian flag above the building less that 24 hours after Vladimir Putin announced the annexation reunification of Crimea in a searing speech to political elites in Moscow. In an hour-long speech in the Kremlin on Wednesday -- likely to go down as one of the defining moments of his long rule governing over Russia -- Putin said western politicians "call something white today and black tomorrow" and aired a long list of foreign policy grievances going back to 2000, saying "we were cheated again and again, with decisions being taken behind our back".

Two dead in news helicopter crash near Seattle Space Needle 18 Mar 2014 A news helicopter crashed near the Seattle Space Needle on Tuesday morning. The Seattle Fire Department reported two deaths and at least one critical injury. KOMO-TV reported that two cars were struck in the crash and firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze within a half-hour. The copter had reportedly been trying to take off from the roof of Fisher Plaza, across the street from the Space Needle, according to the KOMO.

Leaked File Details U.S. Phone Monitoring Abroad 19 Mar 2014 The National Security Agency is recording all telephone calls and their routing data in one foreign country and retaining that information for a month so that it can be analyzed later, according to a report based on a top secret intelligence document. Similar but less comprehensive efforts exist in at least four other foreign countries, according to a classified 2013 document provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former agency contractor. The collection effort was first disclosed on Tuesday by The Washington Post, which cited a classified summary of the program, code-named Mystic. The Post account said that the summary, also leaked by Mr. Snowden, noted that "every single" phone call in one foreign country was saved for 30 days before being purged.

NSA surveillance program reaches 'into the past' to retrieve, replay phone calls 18 Mar 2014 The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording "100 percent" of a foreign country's telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden. A senior manager for the program compares it to a time machine -- one that can replay the voices from any call without requiring that a person be identified in advance for surveillance. The voice interception program, called MYSTIC, began in 2009. Its RETRO tool, short for "retrospective retrieval," and related projects reached full capacity against the first target nation in 2011. Planning documents two years later anticipated similar operations elsewhere.

Australia wants to hold web records longer because of Snowden --Agencies want two year data storage 18 Mar 2014 Australian law enforcement is using Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations as an excuse to store web data for at least two years. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) made its plans known in a note to the Australian Parliament, with the support of the Northern Territory Police, Victoria Police, Australian Federal Police, Australian Crime Commission and Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The Australian equivalent of the British Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) or US National Security Agency (NSA) made its request in a submission about changes to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (TIA Act).

Mandatory data retention back on the radar 18 Mar 2014 The issue of forcing internet service providers to hold on to user data for at least two years is back on the agenda, with the Attorney-General's department siding with the law enforcement agencies on the issue of mandatory data retention. Australian state and federal police forces, along with the Australian Crime Commission and intelligence agency ASIO have all urged the Senate committee reviewing the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 to legislate mandatory data retention. According to their submissions, data retention serves a critical function in the criminal investigations pursued by the enforcement agencies and the current voluntary code implemented by the ISPs did not provide adequate consistency needed to prosecute serious crimes.

Flashback to South Africa's banning orders and the US PATRIOT Act: Ottawa imposes life-long gag order on bureaucrats, lawyers --Under the Security of Information Act, those sworn to permanent secrecy are prohibited from disclosing a wide range of information they were made privy to in the course of their duties. 13 Mar 2014 Ottawa has slapped a life-long gag order on bureaucrats and lawyers working in a number of government agencies dealing with sensitive national security information. The changes enacted Wednesday, and published in the Canada Gazette, reveal employees in 12 government divisions -- five of which have been disbanded -- are now subject to provisions under the Security of Information Act that permanently binds them to secrecy. Those employees, mostly Department of Justice lawyers and senior bureaucrats at the Privy Council Office, could face as much as 14 years in prison for disclosing "special operational information" without authorization.

ACLU urges N.J. State Police to 'come clean' after Christie town hall 19 Mar 2014 The New Jersey ACLU called on State Police today to explain why they took pictures of protesters at Gov. Chris Christie’s town hall meeting on Tuesday. "It raises serious First Amendment concerns that the State Police may be photographing protesters at Gov. Christie's town hall meetings," Udi Ofer, executive director of the ACLU of New Jersey, said in a statement. "The State Police must come clean and explain to New Jerseyans whether it has a practice or policy of photographing people engaged in First Amendment protected speech," he added.

NJ Motor Vehicle Commission passes 'anti-Tesla' rule 12 Mar 2014 If electric car Tesla is your choice, you might have a hard time finding one after the state Motor Vehicle Commission today unanimously passed new rules that will limit Tesla's direct s-les business model. The new rules made more stringent the need for a franchised dealer, a model that the electric carmaker says is "anti-Tesla" as the carmaker operates through storefronts that allow for buyers to purchase directly from the manufacturer. "The Administration has decided to go outside the legislative process by expediting a rule proposal that would completely change the law in New Jersey," the company said in a statement posted on its corporate website. "This new rule, if adopted, would curtail Tesla's s-les operations and jeopardize our existing retail licenses in the state."

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Pipeline leak near Kankakee under investigation

Bold Nebraska

At least 500 gallons of oil leaked today from a Buckeye Partners oil pipeline into a ditch that leads to the Kankakee River in Illinois. The spill was discovered after residents reported a strong odor. Booms have been put in place to try to stop oil from reaching the river.

Pipelines leak; it's not if, it's when. ‪#‎NoKXL

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Pipeline leak near Kankakee under investigation

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LIMESTONE, Ill. (AP) — Emergency crews are investigating a pipeline leak near Kankakee. Limestone Township Fire Chief Mike Whalen says hazardous materials teams responded around midnight Friday to calls of a strong odor...

Time For Change!

MoveOn.org

Wow.

Thanks to Occupy Democrats for the image.

Center for Biological Diversity shared Post Carbon Institute's photo.

 

 

<> It takes 423 years to pay back the carbon debt from palm oil sourced from cleared peatland forests in Indonesia. <> Get... the rest of the story in images here: http://bit.ly/palmoilpicsKudos to Rainforest Action Network for their hard work on this issue: http://www.inyourpalm.org/Huge thank you to Paul Hilton for contributing your gorgeous photography to this effort.http://www.paulhiltonphotography.com/‪#‎EnergyReality‬See More

 

 

 

 

Bold Nebraska

TransCanada gas pipeline ruptures and leaks near Boyle, Alberta — the *second* leak on the same Nova pipeline system in just the last six weeks.

Pipelines leak. It's not if, it's when. ‪#‎NoKXL

 

 

 

 

TransCanada shuts Alberta gas pipeline after rupture

CALGARY, Alberta Wed Nov 27, 2013

Bold Nebraska

Keystone XL is not in our national interest. All risk and no reward for our land, water and climate.

Keystone XL pipeline threatened by U.S. oil boom

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A massive surge in U.S. oil output could derail plans to build the massive Keystone XL pipeline to ship Canadian oil from Alberta to refineries on the American Gulf Coast, Canada's U.S. ambassador was warned in internal emails from energy experts.

 

Bold Nebraska shared Oil Change International's photo.

‪#‎ClimateThanks‬ to everyone who helped raise this wind & solar-powered barn in Nebraska, and all the other Pipeline Fighters out there. ‪#‎NoKXL‬

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Today -- and every day -- we thank all those fighting tirelessly for change. ‪#‎ClimateThanks