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Pipeline Spill In The Heart Of Canada’s Tar Sands Industry Leaks 1.3 Million Gallons Of Oily Emulsio
Source: Think Progress
Another one.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/17/3681738/canadian-pipeline-spill-near-tar-sands/
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nice people follow them everywhere. really need to crack that myth wide open someday. I'm not pro abortion I couldn't call myself pro choice. Once upon a time I was. Not anymore. However there are the known exceptions.... $$$ doesn't seem to be one of them right now. because some Churches have caught on to this fact and do offer assistance etc. But as long as Koch brothers (satan worshipers) are there saying they are against abortion. nice people will continue to make deals with the devil. I'm saying this more so those with the right words can not attack but say in a kind way (not stooping to their level of name calling) so this BS can stop 
and I seem to remember God wanted us to take care of this earth of his. Think that got lost on the way to GREED
Slow suicide thru greed and ignorance .
I hear ya' on Fukushima. Look at how much all the Pacific sea mammals and other sea creatures are enjoying the hot bath.
Oh wait... 
"I don't think it will come as a surprise to anyone how deeply disappointed the President and I are about our inability to get the kind of legislation through the Senate that the United States was seeking." emphasis mine)
With the Clintons, it's never a simple matter of just doing the right thing.
Other sources have reported conflicts of interest between State Department officials and TransCanada, finding an unusual degree of support inside the department for the Keystone pipeline project. Some of these findings are related to people like Paul Elliott, now working at TransCanada. Elliott was a former campaign official with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, the current Secretary of State who is intimately involved in the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
http://greenliving.about.com/od/scienceandtechnology/a/Keystone-Pipeline.htm
More than two dozen State Department emails obtained by the advocacy group Friends of the Earth under a Freedom of Information Act request provide an unusual glimpse into the lobbying for the Keystone permit, which has become a battleground in the national debate over how to address climate change.
They show how Elliott tried to exploit relationships built in political campaigns, with mixed results. The emails are almost all between Elliott and a special assistant to Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff. All three knew one another from working on Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Further, the emails show that officials floated the idea of a two-year delay in the pipeline’s review to a TransCanada lawyer and that Elliott was lobbying the State Department on behalf of TransCanada for more than a year before he first registered as a lobbyist.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act holds that all persons acting as agents of foreign corporations disclose their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as any activities and disbursements in support of those activities
"The American people need to know when foreign entities are trying to influence the actions of the U.S. government," said Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica in a statement on Tuesday. "Unfortunately, the Canadian oil corporation behind the Keystone XL pipeline was trying to do just that, and its top lobbyist failed to disclose what he was up to. The Justice Department has a responsibility to investigate this serious violation of law."
"Moreover," Pica said, "State Department officials must explain why they maintained a cozy relationship with this unregistered foreign agent while he lobbied them illegally. Why did State Department officials provide insider information and coaching to Mr. Elliott and TransCanada? This is more evidence that the State Department has failed to meet its responsibility to conduct a thorough, unbiased review of the proposed pipeline."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/27/keystone-xl-pipeline-lobbyist-foreign-agent_n_984059.html
During a 2010 speaking engagement, Clinton appeared to be supportive of the pipeline from Canada and told an audience that her Department of State was “inclined to" give TransCanada approval for its project.
This is what Clinton said about the Keystone XL pipeline in response to a question at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco event:
"So as I say, we've not yet signed off on it. But we are inclined to do so and we are for several reasons — going back to one of your original questions — we're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada. And until we can get our act together as a country and figure out that clean, renewable energy is in both our economic interests and the interests of our planet, I mean, I don't think it will come as a surprise to anyone how deeply disappointed the President and I are about our inability to get the kind of legislation through the Senate that the United States was seeking.(emphasis mine)"
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/CampaignsElections/a/Hillary-Clinton-On-The-Keystone-Xl-Pipeline.htm
emphasis mine)
With the Clintons, it's never a simple matter of just doing the right thing.
Other sources have reported conflicts of interest between State Department officials and TransCanada, finding an unusual degree of support inside the department for the Keystone pipeline project. Some of these findings are related to people like Paul Elliott, now working at TransCanada. Elliott was a former campaign official with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, the current Secretary of State who is intimately involved in the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
http://greenliving.about.com/od/scienceandtechnology/a/Keystone-Pipeline.htm
More than two dozen State Department emails obtained by the advocacy group Friends of the Earth under a Freedom of Information Act request provide an unusual glimpse into the lobbying for the Keystone permit, which has become a battleground in the national debate over how to address climate change.
They show how Elliott tried to exploit relationships built in political campaigns, with mixed results. The emails are almost all between Elliott and a special assistant to Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff. All three knew one another from working on Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Further, the emails show that officials floated the idea of a two-year delay in the pipeline’s review to a TransCanada lawyer and that Elliott was lobbying the State Department on behalf of TransCanada for more than a year before he first registered as a lobbyist.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act holds that all persons acting as agents of foreign corporations disclose their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as any activities and disbursements in support of those activities
"The American people need to know when foreign entities are trying to influence the actions of the U.S. government," said Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica in a statement on Tuesday. "Unfortunately, the Canadian oil corporation behind the Keystone XL pipeline was trying to do just that, and its top lobbyist failed to disclose what he was up to. The Justice Department has a responsibility to investigate this serious violation of law."
"Moreover," Pica said, "State Department officials must explain why they maintained a cozy relationship with this unregistered foreign agent while he lobbied them illegally. Why did State Department officials provide insider information and coaching to Mr. Elliott and TransCanada? This is more evidence that the State Department has failed to meet its responsibility to conduct a thorough, unbiased review of the proposed pipeline."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/27/keystone-xl-pipeline-lobbyist-foreign-agent_n_984059.html
During a 2010 speaking engagement, Clinton appeared to be supportive of the pipeline from Canada and told an audience that her Department of State was “inclined to" give TransCanada approval for its project.
This is what Clinton said about the Keystone XL pipeline in response to a question at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco event:
"So as I say, we've not yet signed off on it. But we are inclined to do so and we are for several reasons — going back to one of your original questions — we're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada. And until we can get our act together as a country and figure out that clean, renewable energy is in both our economic interests and the interests of our planet, I mean, I don't think it will come as a surprise to anyone how deeply disappointed the President and I are about our inability to get the kind of legislation through the Senate that the United States was seeking.(emphasis mine)"
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/CampaignsElections/a/Hillary-Clinton-On-The-Keystone-Xl-Pipeline.htm
