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Different environmental groups, citizens, and politicians have raised concerns about the potential negative impacts of the Keystone XL project. [232] The main issues are the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and 17% higher greenhouse gas emissions from the extraction of oil sands compared to ...
Anti-pipeline activists and environmental organizations claimed that probable pipe spillage would threaten groundwater, ecosystems, surrounding lands, employment, and the economy. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The pipeline would cross 631 streams and wetlands in Texas, including not the Sulphur River and the entire Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer , which is the water ...
Photo credit: Flickr/laurigorham Environmentalists are fighting hard to prevent TransCanada Corporation from ever building its proposed $5.3 billion Keystone XL pipeline. The hope is that if the ...
Executive Order 13990, officially titled Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis [1] is an executive order signed by President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, which implements various environmental policies of his administration including revoking the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline [2] and temporarily prohibiting drilling in the ...
A recent study conducted by the U.S. State Department found that the potential environmental risks associated with the proposed Keystone XL pipeline are not as grave as some have suggested and ...
Last Friday, the U.S. State Department released its draft environmental review of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. Its conclusions raised hackles on both sides of the controversy over ...
He began by revising and strengthening the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and ordering several executive orders aimed at reviewing or undoing the environmental policies of the former administration; these policies included removal of some wildlife protections, [6] the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, [7] and drilling for oil ...
By now, you've probably heard about Transcanada's Keystone XL pipeline. For even the most casual observer of the energy industry, this project has been the spark that has ignited poltical debates ...