So-Called ‘Failsafe’ Pipeline Leak Detection System Failed in Massive Alberta Tar Sands Spill

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Last week, a tar sands pipeline burst in Canada, and now more than two football fields’ worth of land is covered in the sticky, hard-to-cleanup crude oil. This ecological tragedy should serve as a reminder that tar sands oil is far too risky to transport through our backyards. We still need to stop the Keystone XL pipeline once and for all: Tell President Obama today to reject the KXL permit permanently: http://bit.ly/1vz1HYf

So-Called ‘Failsafe’ Pipeline Leak Detection System Failed in Massive Alberta Tar Sands Spill

The Nexen pipeline spill is larger than the spill on the Kalamazoo River, which was the worst of its kind in U.S. history.

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RSN: Largest Tar Sands Pipeline to US Shut Down Indefinitely After Spill of 50,000+ Gallons, Obama Finally Acts Like a Nobel Laureate

Enbridge Inc., based in Calgary, Alta., has agreed to pay about $6.8 million to settle a class action in one of the costliest onshore oil spills in U.S. history. (photo: AP)

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Scott Galindez | Obama Finally Acts Like a Nobel Laureate

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Galindez writes: "Normalizing relations with Cuba was an act worthy of consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm not saying he deserves the prize, too many other actions by Obama led to more violence and suffering in the world."
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FARC Guerillas Announce Cease-Fire With Colombian Government After 50-Year Civil War
Steven Cohen, VICE Magazine
Cohen reports: "Starting midnight December 20, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the hemisphere's longest-standing leftist insurgency, will enter an indefinite, unilateral - albeit conditional - ceasefire, rebel commanders announced in Havana."
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'Stand Your Ground' Defense Fails in Montana Murder of German Exchange Student
Kathryn Haake, Missoulian
Haake reports: "A collective cry erupted on the third floor of the Missoula County Courthouse on Wednesday as a jury of eight women and four men found Markus Hendrik Kaarma guilty of deliberate homicide."
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Iran Unveils Monument to Jewish Soldiers Killed in Iran-Iraq War
Haaretz and Associated Press
Excerpt: "Iran this week unveiled a monument to Jewish soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988 and saw both countries suffer millions of casualties and billions of dollar in damage."
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The Latest Twist in the Bizarre Prosecution of Barrett Brown
Michelle Garcia, The Intercept
Garcia reports: "The hearing followed a plea deal negotiated with prosecutors last spring, in which Brown agreed to plead guilty to charges related to threats he made in a YouTube video against an FBI agent named Robert Smith."
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6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
Jose Martin, Rolling Stone
Martin writes: "While law enforcers have existed in one form or another for centuries, the modern police have their roots in the relatively recent rise of modern property relations 200 years ago, and the 'disorderly conduct' of the urban poor."
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Largest Tar Sands Pipeline to US Shut Down Indefinitely After Spill of 50,000+ Gallons
Scott Haggett, Reuters
Haggett reports: "Enbridge Inc said on Thursday it has no restart date yet for its 796,000-barrel-per-day Line 4, the largest oil-export pipeline to the United States, after it was shut a day earlier after a spill of 1,350 barrels."
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Daily Kos: There's been HOW many pipeline spills in Alberta in the last four months??, GOP outraged that Obama might follow in Reagan's footsteps on immigration

See the VIDEO ON LINK ---US will sacrifice our environment to DIRTY TAR SANDS SPILLS for TAR SAND going to CHINA for 50 JOBS?

Who was DUMB enough to believe the PHONY PROMISES?


CEO of TransCanada concedes just 50 permanent jobs from Keystone XL Pipeline

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Enbridge has been sued by more than 20 companies whose business was ruined when its pipeline dumped a million gallons of tarsands into the Kalamazoo River in 2010.

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

First Enbridge trial begins

Two Michigan men testified Wednesday that a 2010 oil spill into the Kalamazoo River destroyed their business and they want Enbridge Inc. to pay for it.

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Why do you think Republicans are no longer interested in taking down Obamacare? Krystal Ball gives her take: http://on.msnbc.com/1qtNliQ

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Justice Ginsburg says the biggest mistake this Court made is in campaign finance.‪#‎GetMoneyOut‬

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Friends of the Earth U.S.

‪#‎FOENews‬: This week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management sold 434,000 acres for oil and gas development in the Western Gulf of Mexico. Many of the companies that were awarded leases that will allow them to continue to threaten the coastal communities in the Gulf Of Mexico, including BP America, Chevron ,ExxonMobil Corporation and Shell, also happen to have the highest numbers of offshore drilling environmental and safety violations between 2000-2012.

They’re winning, the Gulf isn’t.

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As of August 5th, over 99% of California was in severe drought conditions. We know climate change and droughts are inextricably linked, and so doesSenator Barbara Boxer. In a recent interview, she argued that we have to take action on climate change if we want to avoid droughts like this one in the future. Read the interview here: http://desert.sn/1oYrXFF

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Cop Block with Betty Ernie and 11 others

Wow! Who Knew Bill Maher Disliked the Police State this Much?
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This New York bill would ban ‪#‎fracking‬ waste in the city.

“With this legislation we can keep this toxic waste out of New York City and send a clear message that we are opposed to fracking in our state.” said City Council Member Stephen Levin

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New Bill Would Ban Fracking Waste in New York City » EcoWatch

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Tar Sands Pipeline

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After the Exxon tarsands pipeline spill that devastated the town of Mayflower, the state of Arkansas is taking a close look at a new pipeline proposal that would pass through many fragile wildlife habitats.
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Crude oil pipeline planned, would pass through three Game and Fish wildlife management areas

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A crude oil refiner and a pipeline company are contemplating running an east-west gas line through Arkansas's mid-section, connecting Cushing, Okla.,...

Your backyard? Your community?

We've got undisclosed hazardous shipments traveling by rail with no mandated disclosure, no assurances of safety and pipelines jeopardizing communities.

We've lost sight of what constitutes Corporate Responsibility.

No amount of 'FINE' will repair the damage done by ExxonMobil.

Whose community is NEXT?

Bold Nebraska

A "significant" amount of crude oil leaked last night from a pipeline into a marshy, wetlands area in the Glen Oak Nature Preserve in Colerain Township, Ohio.

Local residents who had been smelling oil since last week reported the spill on the 20-inch pipeline, which is owned by Mid-Valley Pipeline Co. and operated by Sunoco Logistics.

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

'No immediate danger to public' after Colerain oil leak

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A large oil leak was found overnight in a crude oil pipeline that runs through Glen Oak Nature Preserve in Colerain Township

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Exxon claims soil cleanup is complete at the site of its Pegasus tarsands pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas.

The company is continuing work to remove oil from a cove and drainage ways at Lake Conway, and has agreed to do weekly sheen monitoring and sheen removal in the cove, as well as replace booms that absorb oil from the water at least every three months. ‪#‎NoKXL

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Exxon Mobil says Arkansas pipeline oil spill soil cleanup is complete

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In November, Exxon was hit with a $2.6 million fine by federal regulators in association with the spill. Regulators said Exxon did not follow policies for testing and reporting risks associated with the pipeline.