September 25, 2012

Activists Take To The Trees To Stop Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas ¹⁰

Activism, All, Environmental, Keystone XL, News: US • Tags: activism, export, insider trading, John Boehner, Keystone XL Pipeline, oil companies, photos, profit, protest, protesters, Tar Sand Blockade, Tar Sands, tree house, video, Winnsboro TX, zip lines

Three pickup trucks of TransCanada’s Keystone XL construction workers are arriving on Highway 2088 outside Winnsboro, Texas. Their purpose? Tear down the trees, clear the brush, flatten the land, and erect a portion of the southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline. This pipeline, if completed, will bring the tar sands from Canada down to the Houston area where it will be refined…. then sold to China and other countries. The Canadian Tar Sands is considered to be the most destructive project on Earth.

All the while the corporate leaders and their lobbyists are continually telling the people that the Keystone XL will provide millions of jobs and stock the United States with oil for many decades to come.

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January 18, 2012

Keystone XL DENIED! Obama Threatened by Oil Companies ⁷

Activism, All, Keystone XL, News: International, News: US, Politics - US, She speaks... • Tags: Boehner, fossil fuels, gasoline number one US export, green energy, jobs, Keystone XL denied, Keystone XL Pipeline, non-renewable energy, Obama, Obama threatened by oil companies, oil companies, profits, renewable energy, Tar Sands, TransCanada

The Keystone XL pipeline was denied today by Obama – at least for now. TransCanada will be allowed to refile. This is hailed as a huge victory by those opposed to the pipeline, and I am sure the earth, environment and wildlife appreciate this as well.

I checked out #keystone on Twitter a while ago and just happened to catch Boehners tweet that Obama is killing thousands of jobs. Well, horse hockies! Do people really buy this line of crap? And as if this is the only source of jobs available in this country? First of all, bring back all our jobs that are now overseas – such as the 200,000 jobs displaced to China via Wal-Mart. This alone will well exceed Boehners over-inflated amount of jobs from the Keystone XL pipeline. I just bet that ol’ Sam Walton is turning over in his grave since he did found his company on the belief of all Made in the USA products – then his money-grubbing children changed all that. What about a combination of American companies, not just Wal-Mart? The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, says American companies have created 1.4 million jobs overseas in 2010. More…

October 30, 2011

Occupy camps an eye-sore? Let’s compare photos… ¹

Activism, All, Environmental, Occupy Wall Street • Tags: #occupywallst, #oocupyburque, #ows, (un) Occupy Albuquerque, Amazon Rainforest Deforestation, Anacortes WA, Chernobyl, eyesore, Gulf Oil Spill, Keystone XL Pipeline, occupy albuquerque, Occupy Wall Street, Shell Oil Refinery, Ship Graveyard, Slums of Mumbai India, Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth, tents, unsanitary

There are many comments from several “concerned” officials – and citizens – that the Occupy camps are “eyesores” and express concerns over sanitary issues. Many city officials are using these excuses to shut down and remove camps set up within various cities around the world.

Let us take a look and compare these “eyesores” and “unsanitary” camps to other areas around the world which draw in, or have drawn in, grotesque amounts of profit… More…