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The Kids Are All Red: Socialism Rises Again in the Age of Trump

22/11/17
Author: 
HOLLY OTTERBEIN
Link: 
Phillymag.com

Socialism — yes, socialism — is having a moment in America. And it’s hotter than ever among Philly millennials.

It’s one of those final, bittersweet fridays of the summer, and a dozen people are crowded around a picnic table at the el bar in fishtown. with their horn-rimmed glasses, hand-rolled cigarettes and lukewarm pbrs, they look like your standard-issue young hipsters. but here’s the difference between them and the men with manicured beards across the patio: these are card-carrying members of the democratic socialists of america, the largest socialist group in the nation.

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Category: 
Capitalism
Ecosocialism
USA
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Washington governor admires cap and trade, but concerned about Kinder Morgan

20/11/17
Author: 
Mike De Souza
Link: 
National Observer
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks on a panel about U.S. climate change policies in Bonn, Germany at the annual UN summit on global warming on Nov. 13, 2017. File photo by Mike De Souza

Washington Governor Jay Inslee says he admires two Canadian provinces that are partnering with California to reduce their carbon footprint. But he's seriously concerned about a big fossil fuel project that's been approved to go through another province next door to his own state.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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Nebraska commission approves final permits for Keystone XL in close vote

20/11/17
Author: 
Geoffrey Morgan
Link: 
Calgary Herald
Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline demonstrate on the Dodge Street pedestrian bridge during rush hour in Omaha, Neb., on Nov. 1, 2017. CANADIAN PRESS/AP/NATI HARNIK

Published on: November 20, 2017

CALGARY – After nine years of regulatory reviews, TransCanada Corp. now has the approvals it needs to build its long-delayed and much-debated Keystone XL pipeline.

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The Nebraska Public Service Commission voted three to two Monday in favour of the 830,000-barrel-per-day pipeline crossing through the state.

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Category: 
Alberta
Canada
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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Keystone pipeline spill will take months to clean up: officials

17/11/17
Author: 
Nia Williams and Kevin O'Hanlon
Link: 
The Globe and Mail
An aerial view shows the darkened ground of an oil spill which shut down the Keystone pipeline between Canada and the United States, located in an agricultural area near Amherst, South Dakota, U.S., in this photo provided Nov. 17, 2017.  HANDOUT/TRANSCANADA

The crude oil spill on the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota will take months to clean up, a state official said on Friday, just days before Nebraska was due to decide on another pipeline project by the owner, TransCanada Corp.

Canadian heavy crude prices and TransCanada Corp shares slid on Friday, the day after the 5,000 barrel spill, tied for this year's largest pipeline leak in the United States.

No date has been set for reopening Keystone, TransCanada said, adding that a media report that had stated a restart date was incorrect.

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Category: 
Alberta
Canada
Ecology/Environment
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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TransCanada Keystone pipeline leaks 795,000 litres of crude oil in South Dakota

17/11/17
Author: 
The Canadian Press
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun

CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. said its Keystone pipeline has leaked an estimated 795,000 litres of oil in Marshall County, S.D. just days before Nebraska is set to decide the fate of its Keystone XL pipeline

The company (TSX:TRP) said its crews shut down the Keystone pipeline system early this morning between Hardisty, Alta. to Cushing, Okla, and a line to Patoka, Ill. and that the line is expected to remain shut while it responds to the spill.

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Category: 
Alberta
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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Hurricane Harvey debris dumped next to an African American community

01/11/17
Author: 
Julie Dermansky
Link: 
National Observer
Tami Thomas-Pinkney with her daughter Trinity Handy on their front lawn in Port Arthur, Texas, across from one of the city’s temporary dumpsites. Photo by Julie Dermansky for DeSmog

Tami Thomas-Pinkney’s house in Port Arthur, Texas, was not damaged when Hurricane Harvey soaked the city with up to 28 inches of rain on August 29. But a month and a half after the storm, she is preparing to move. Across the street from her family’s home is a temporary dumpsite for storm debris, which she says is endangering her family’s health and making her home unlivable.

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Category: 
Climate Change
Social
USA
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Letters in BC, Lawsuits in California, Demand That Fossil Fuel Companies Pay for Climate Costs

24/10/17
Author: 
Jessica Clogg & Andrew Gage
Link: 
Slaw

The past year has seen communities around the world dealing with major weather events. Here in Canada flooding in Quebec and unprecedented wildfires in BC displaced tens of thousands, while the southern U.S. and South East Asia suffered from intense storms. Forget about polar bears – these communities are the new face of climate change.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Climate Change
Global
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
Tar Sands
USA
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In Victory for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Court Finds That Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law

22/10/17
Author: 
the Indigenous americans
Link: 
the Indigenous americans
Standing Rock protest

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a significant victory today in its fight to protect the Tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline.

A federal judge ruled that the federal permits authorizing the pipeline to cross the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock reservation, which were hastily issued by the Trump administration just days after the inauguration, violated the law in certain critical respects.

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Category: 
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
USA
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Time for Disaster Socialism

20/10/17
Author: 
Nato Green
Link: 
San Francisco Examiner

 

 

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Category: 
Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
USA
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NORTHWEST GAS PROJECTS FUEL THE FRACKING BEAST

20/10/17
Author: 
Eric de Place
Link: 
Sightline Institute

Methanol, LNG, and power plants drive Canada’s gas industry.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Energy
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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