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Unequal Risks and Benefits for Citizens in Six States on Keystone XL Pipeline Route
In Kansas, for example, lawmakers gave TransCanada a 10-year tax exemption, which means the state won’t receive any property tax revenue from the pipeline. Meanwhile, each of the other five states—Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas—would earn between $14 million and $63 million a year, according to U.S. State Department estimates. Continue reading
GPACE Executive Moving to Sierra Club Position
Allegrucci begins his work with the Beyond Coal Campaign November 28th. His work as a Senior Campaign Representative will cover the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. Continue reading
Coal is King on the Rails Now, But Maybe Not Forever
BNSF runs dozens of mile-and-a-half-long coal trains every day from mines in Wyoming to power plants. Environmental concerns might not be what sends coal trains into the history books. Railroads can make money hauling other goods and they aren’t spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new facilities to run more coal trains. Continue reading
Nebraska Governor to Call Special Session on Keystone XL Pipeline
Nebraska’s governor will call a special session of the state’s legislature over TransCanada Corp’s proposed oil sands pipeline that would cross ecologically sensitive areas in his state. Continue reading
Why Every Kansan Should Oppose Keystone XL
It is not in our national interest to (1) support continued destruction of First Nations homelands, (2) suffer more job losses from higher fuel prices, (3) incur the extreme environmental losses that will surely come and (4) cede property rights to a Canadian corporation for oil we don’t need. Continue reading
Nebraska Governor Urges Obama to Deny Pipeline Permit
By Grant Schulte for Associated Press (via the Lawrence Journal World) Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman urged President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday to deny a federal permit for a pipeline that would carry Canadian … Continue reading
Nebraska Lawmakers Plead with Secy. Clinton to Delay Keystone XL Decision
The Nebraskans say that extending the deadline to May 2012 would give the Legislature another session to beef up its oil pipeline safeguards Continue reading
Nebraska Poll Shows Strong Support for Wind Energy
A newly released poll finds overwhelmingly favorable impressions of wind power among Nebraska voters. Continue reading
Using Coal Ash to Melt Ice?
On Thursday, the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start using coal ash to melt the thick ice on the Platte River in Omaha, Nebraska, to prevent ice jams and severe flooding. Continue reading
Public Comments on Keystone Have Disappeared Into a Procedural Black Hole
In July, when the Sierra Club checked the website that Carno Entrix maintains for the State Department, it found that the company’s count came up short by 94,000 comments. About 25,000 of the missing comments were written by Sierra Club members. The State Department did not respond to questions about the missing comments or a request for an interview. Cardno Entrix referred questions to the State Department. Continue reading →