Greenpeace USA

Lobbyists for Big Oil have used a bunch of actors to say they’ll vote for oil and gas (like offshore drilling, tar sands and fracking!). So we made our own little video in response:

http://vote-4-energy.org/

nohats:

Greenpeace Polluter’s Harmony video

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"Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said jobs created by TransCanada Corp.’s planned Keystone XL oil pipeline wouldn’t be worth the health and safety consequences if a spill contaminated water supplies."

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Keystone Pipeline Shouldn’t Risk Nebraska Water, Obama Says - Businessweek

Wow….  

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Group challenges Seventh Generation on tar-sand oil

greenpeacesemester:

UVM students (including Greenpeace Semester alum!) challenge Seventh Generation to go tar-sands-free.

Interested in gaining the skills to organize actions like these on your campus? The Greenpeace Semester is still accepting applications for the Spring 2012 program! Apply now: http://bit.ly/qm0hir

Oil sands imports could be banned under EU directive | Environment | The Guardian

Keystone XL emails show bias, conflict of interest

climateadaptation:

Emails released in a FOIA request show that the Obama administration is biased towards getting the Keystone XL Pipeline built. I’ve been covering Keystone XL for a few months (see all my posts, here). I used to believe the pipeline will get the green light. Now I suspect it will be delayed…

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Cornell Global Labor Institute Study Finds Keystone XL Pipeline Will Create Few Jobs

greenpeacesemester:

Cornell’s GLI says more jobs could be destroyed than created by the pipeline.