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Pipeline Project Won’t Improve Energy Independence By Kate Gordon and Daniel J. Weiss  December 16, 2011, 9:00 am As Congress attempts to finish its 2011 work, the House leadership continues to push hard to speed up the permitting process for the Keystone XL pipeline. Today Speaker of the House John Boehner (

December 14, 2011, 4:43 PM ET | Heard on  All Things Considered by Tamara Keith https://www.npr.org/player/embed/143719155/143727486 One of the major sticking points between the House and the Senate as they face off over end-of-year legislation is the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The bill the House passed Tuesday

You don’t kill off Big Oil’s pet project that easily. By JEFF GOODELL The zombie pipeline lives! You might think that the Obama administration’s decision last month to delay the construction of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline pending further review would have put an end to Big

December 12, 2011 The Keystone XL oil pipeline has become the House Republicans’ weapon of choice in their fight with President Obama over jobs and taxes. Mr. Obama has said he will not make a decision on the pipeline until 2013. The Republicans are insisting that he approve it now and have attached

By Reuters Staff | NOVEMBER 9, 2011, 12:41 PM | UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO Nov 9 (Reuters) – TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL pipeline is at the center of an emotional debate in the United States, pitting promoters of energy security and job creation against advocates of a green economy who fear the environmental risks of moving

By Jordan Weissmann NOVEMBER 5, 2011 Canada wants to build a pipeline that would send oil to the U.S. Here’s why environmentalists the world over are dead-set on stopping it.  Even if you don’t pay a whole lot of attention to the fine points of U.S. energy policy,

By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson, November 5, 2011 Canadian ambassador Gary Doer has a straightforward analysis of whether TransCanada will win the Obama administration’s approval to build and operate an enormous pipeline to transport oil from Alberta to the Texas coast. “If it’s made on merit,

By Tom Zeller Jr. 11/04/2011 07:11am EDT | Updated December 6, 2017 At the end of September, the mayor of tiny Atkinson, Neb., sat calmly waiting for an invasion. David Frederick’s rural outpost of about 1,000 residents, set along the northeastern edge of Nebraska’s Sandhills, was about to see its population briefly swelled by a

A look at fantastic claims for the job-creating power of energy programmes Nov 2nd 2011 BY E.G. | AUSTIN STRANGE, isn’t it, that the unemployment rate in America is so high, given that you can’t go ten minutes without someone collaring you to tell you how many jobs they’re fixing to

Tuesday, Oct 18 2011 • 10 a.m. (ET) https://dianerehm.org/audio/#/shows/2011-10-18/proposed-oil-pipeline-canada/106061/@00:00 Pros and cons of a proposed pipeline to bring crude oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Understanding the stakes for the environment, the U.S. economy and the White House.  Guests Juliet