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Senators Seek To Force Approval Of Keystone XL Pipeline
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WASHINGTON
–- Senate supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline say they think they
have enough votes to pass a bill that would force the approval of the
controversial project. A group of 56 senators -- all 45 Republicans plus
11 Democrats –- introduced legislation on Thursday that would bypass
the Obama administration and grant approval for the pipeline.
Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) introduced the bill on Thursday.
Democrats Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Mark Pryor
(D-Ark.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), Claire McCaskill
(D-Mo.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), John Walsh
(D-Mont.), and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) are cosponsoring it.
Because it
crosses an international border, the decision on the pipeline falls
under the authority of the State Department. The State Department
announced another delay on a decision
last month in response to a court decision that invalidated the
pipeline's proposed route through Nebraska, saying that it would wait to
decide until there is more clarity on where the pipeline will
ultimately run. The legislation would grant approval to "any subsequent
revision to the pipeline route" in Nebraska, without requiring further
environmental analysis.
"We continue to hear delay, delay, delay
from the Administration about the Keystone XL pipeline. I’m beyond sick
of it," Heitkamp said in a statement Thursday. "We have strong
bipartisan support in the Senate for this project –- and I’m proud to
have recruited support from 10 other Democrats last month. Now, all of
those Democrats also signed onto this bill that we crafted to fully
approve the construction of the Keystone pipeline. If the Administration
isn’t going to make a decision on this project after more than five
years, then we’ll make it for them. End of story."
LOUISVILLE,
Miss. (AP) — Ruth Bennett died clutching the last child left at her day
care center as a tornado wiped the building off its foundation. A
firefighter who came upon the body gently pulled the toddler from her
arms.
"It makes you just take a breath now," said next-door
neighbor Kenneth Billingsley, who witnessed the scene at what was left
of Ruth's Child Care Center in this logging town of 6,600. "It makes you
pay attention to life."
Widespread Damage And Casualties After Tornadoes Rip Through South
VILONIA,
AR - APRIL 29: A passerby stops to look at damage caused by a tornado
on Sunday evening, on April 29, 2014 in Vilonia, Arkansas. After deadly
tornadoes ripped through the region leaving more than a dozen dead,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee are all under
watch as multiple storms are expected over the next few days. (Photo by
Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
...
Bennett,
53, was among at least 34 people killed in a two-day outbreak of
twisters and other violent weather that pulverized homes in half a dozen
states from Iowa to Tennessee. The child's fate was not immediately
known.
As crews in Mississippi and Alabama turned from
search-and-rescue efforts to cleanup, the South braced for a third round
of potentially deadly weather Tuesday. Tornadoes usually strike in the
late afternoon and evening.
One of the hardest-hit areas in Monday
evening's barrage of twisters was Tupelo, Miss., where a gas station
looked as if it had been stepped on by a giant.
Francis Gonzalez,
who also owns a convenience store and Mexican restaurant attached to the
service station, took cover with her three children and two employees
in the store's cooler as the roof over the gas pumps was reduced to
aluminum shards.
"My Lord, how can all this happen in just one second?" she said in Spanish.
On
Tuesday, the whine of chain saws cut through the otherwise still, hazy
morning in Tupelo. Massive oak trees, knocked over like toys, blocked
roads. Neighbors helped one another cut away limbs.
"This does not
even look like a place that I'm familiar with right now," said Pam
Montgomery, walking her dog in her neighborhood. "You look down some of
the streets, and it doesn't even look like there is a street."
AP
Tornado hits Mayflower, Ark.
Travel
trailers and motor homes are piled on top of each other at Mayflower RV
in Mayflower, Ark., Sunday, April 27, 2014.A powerful storm system
rumbled through the central and southern United States on Sunday,
spawning tornadoes.
UPDATE 4-U.S. storm system that killed 16 causes tornado in Mississippi
Tue Apr 29, 2014 3:35am IST
* Tornado touches down in Mississippi
* More than 100 injured
* Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia at risk (Adds Mississippi governor)
By Colin Sims
VILONIA,
Ark., April 28 (Reuters) - A ferocious storm system caused a twister in
Mississippi and threatened tens of millions of people across the U.S.
Southeast on Monday, a day after it spawned tornadoes that killed 16
people and tossed cars like toys in Arkansas and other states.
A
tornado went through Tupelo, Mississippi in the northern part of the
state at about 3 p.m. (1800 GMT), damaging hundreds of homes, downing
power lines and toppling trees, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant told
CNN.
There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries after six instances of tornadoes touching down in the state.
"It is not over. This is going to be a prolonged storm," Bryant said.
Parts
of Alabama, western Georgia and Tennessee also were at risk as the
storm system that produced the series of tornadoes headed east toward
the Mid-Atlantic states.
Rescue workers, volunteers and victims
have been sifting through the rubble in the hardest-hit state of
Arkansas, looking for survivors in central Faulkner County where a
tornado reduced homes to splinters, snapped power lines and mangled
trees.
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe said at least 14 people died
statewide in the storm that authorities said produced the first
fatalities of this year's U.S. tornado season. He previously told a news
conference 16 had been killed but later said there was a mistake in
calculation.
Nine of the victims came from the same street
in the town of Vilonia, with a population of about 4,100, where a new
intermediate school set to open in August was heavily damaged by a
tractor trailer blown into its roof. A steel farm shop anchored to
concrete was erased from the landscape.
Beebe told reporters of
the capricious nature of tornadoes. He said a woman died when the door
of her home's reinforced safe room collapsed, while a father and three
daughters survived by seeking shelter in a bathtub that was flipped over
in winds that leveled the house.
One person was killed in neighboring Oklahoma and another in Iowa, state authorities said.
'LONG ROAD TO HEALING'
"Everything is just leveled to the ground," Vilonia resident Matt Rothacher said. "It cut a zig-zag right through town."
Rothacher
was at home with his wife and four children when the tornado passed
through. While his home survived, The Valley Church where he serves as
pastor was flattened.
| by By MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
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PENSACOLA
BEACH, Fla. (AP) — People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into
their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of
rain fell on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast in the span of
about 24 hours, the latest bout of severe weather that began with
tornadoes in the Midwest.
On Wednesday, roads were
chewed up into pieces or wiped out entirely and neighborhoods were
inundated, making rescues difficult for hundreds of people who called
for help when they were caught off guard by the single rainiest day ever
recorded in Pensacola.
Boats and Humvees zigzagged
through the flooded streets to help stranded residents. A car and truck
plummeted 25 feet when portions of a scenic highway collapsed, and one
Florida woman died when she drove her car into high water, officials
said.
Near the Alabama-Florida line, water started
creeping into Brandi McCoon's mobile home, so her fiance, Jonathan
Brown, wrapped up her nearly 2-year-old son Noah in a blanket and they
swam in neck-deep water to their car about 50 feet away.
Then, the car was flooded.
"Every which way we turned, there was a big ol' pile of water," she said.
Brown called 911 and eventually a military vehicle picked them up and took them to a shelter.
Kyle
Schmitz was at his Pensacola home with his 18-month-old son Oliver on
Tuesday night when heavy rain dropped during a 45-minute span. He
gathered up his son, his computer and important papers and left.
Hmmmm, alert the presses and let everyone know that in spite of the facts that :
Oil
spills are never properly cleaned up and the side effects of the
chemicals and toxins left behind linger for years.
Energy
Companies responsible for the spills are never truly held
accountable for all the damage done due to carelessness and cost
cutting to fatten their bottom line
Sea life , Coral
Reefs, and the food chain in oil spill damaged areas face death
at every turn. While the culprits shrug their shoulders and say
"Oh Well"
Coastlines are negatively impacted.
Damaging not only the ecology but the likelihood of those who
depend on a clean and healthy ocean to sustain themselves and their
families.
The Energy Companies walk away after
THEY feel they have done enough when in reality they fall
woefully short and the corrupt government taking corporate
kickbacks allows them to get away with their crimes with a slap
on the wrist.
In spite of all this destruction ........Oil Spills create jobs.
Would that also be the case for oil spills caused by,
oh
let's say, pipeline leaks and train derailments in populated areas
where not only people are affected, but their ground water and
lands are poisoned with chemicals and toxic oil that can never truly
be completely removed?
Yes indeed, that certainly is worth the jobs created alright......NOT!!
~Desert Rose~
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Kinder Morgan: Oil Spills' Economic Effects Are Both Good And Bad
The Huffington Post Canada | Posted: 05/01/2014 1:41 pm EDT | Updated: 05/01/2014 1:59 pm EDT
There is at least something of a bright side to oil spills, pipeline company Kinder Morgan says.
In a recent submission to the National Energy Board, the company says marine oil spills “can have both positive and negative effects on local and regional economies” thanks to the economic activity generated by cleanup operations.
“Spill
response and clean-up creates business and employment opportunities for
affected communities, regions, and clean-up service providers,” the
company says.
The comments appear in a 15,000-page application to the NEB to triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain Pipeline, which carries oil from Alberta to Port Metro Vancouver.
Environmentalists fear an increase in oil shipments through West Coast waters would increase the risk of oil tanker accidents.
Kinder
Morgan’s submission doesn’t ignore the negatives; it points out that
oil spills are devastating to fishing and tourism industries, and notes
the negative impacts on human health, damage to property and harm done
to “cultural resources.”
But it cites a 1990 research paper looking at the economic impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill to argue there are positive elements as well.
It's in the cards; spread of possible oil spill tracked by 'drift card' study
Apr 1, 2014 at 12:00PM updated at 2:33PM
Jennifer of Victoria and a friend show off a drift card that she found on Vancouver Island.
— image credit: Contributed photo/Friends of San Juans
Journal staff report
Conservation
groups from Washington and British Columbia commemorated the 25th
anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill by launching 650 ‘drift cards’
along Salish Sea oil tanker routes.
The
cards were dropped at two locations: off Turn Point, Stuart Island,
where Haro Strait intersects with Boundary Pass, and near Bird Rocks in
Rosario Strait. They carry a simple message: This Could Be Oil.
This
research responds to a sharp increase in fossil fuel export projects
proposed in British Columbia and Washington state. The proposed Gateway Pacific coal terminal
at Cherry Point north of Bellingham and Kinder Morgan’s increase in
tar-sands shipping from Vancouver, and other projects, would add an
additional 2,620 ship transits per year to the waters of the Salish Sea,
making the region one of North America’s busiest fossil fuel shipping
corridors.
“The
increased risk of a major oil spill in the Salish Sea is real," said
Stephanie Buffum, executive director of Friends of the San
Juans. "Anyone with a cultural, environmental or economic interest in
our region should get engaged with Coast Guard rulemaking; familiarize
themselves with effects of cargo traveling through our waters; and ask
decision makers to ensure diluted bitumen (oil sand) is classified as a
petroleum product that is taxed to fund oil spill clean-up efforts.”
Here are some of those job opportunities Kinder Morgan was referring to :
.....
BP pipeline sprays ‘oily mist’ over 33 acres of Alaskan tundra
Published time: May 01, 2014 03:15
Alaska
state officials confirmed Wednesday that an oily mist sprung from a
compromised oil pipeline and sprayed into the wind without stopping for
at least two hours, covering 33 acres of the frozen snow field in the
oil well's vicinity.
The discovery was at the BP-owned Prudhoe oil
field on Alaska’s North Slope, the northernmost region of the state
where a number of profitable oil fields sit beneath the tundra. The
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) revealed that BP
officials found the mist during a routine inspection on Monday.
Initial
reports said that 27 acres had been covered, although that figure was
updated later on Wednesday. The cause is still under investigation,
according to the Associated Press,
but officials know that the mist was made up of a mixture of gas, crude
oil, and water. They also reported that while the noxious mist was
distributed over such a wide area by 30 mph winds, no wildlife was
impacted.
BP spokeswoman Dawn Patience said the company is “still assessing repairs” and will soon know what, if any, long-term effects the spill could have.
The
Prudhoe Bay region, like elsewhere in the North Slope, is home to a
great number of migratory birds and caribou, as well as other animals,
such as a massive porcupine herd. Clean-up efforts are expected to be
complete before birds pass through the region again in the coming weeks.
The
company was at fault in at least two oil spills in the same region
since 2006. That year, an estimated 267,000 gallons of oil seeped
through a quarter-inch sized hole in a corroded BP pipeline. That
accident went unnoticed for five days, until an oil worker smelled the
aroma of crude when driving through the area, according to Think Progress.
Lynchburg, Virginia Train Derailment Sparks Fire, Fills Air With Plumes Of Black Smoke
The Huffington Post
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A CSX train derailed near downtown Lynchburg, Virginia around 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, prompting evacuations and calls to avoid part of the city as flames and a plume of black smoke rose into the air. There are no immediate reports of injuries.
The City Of Lynchburg announced that the train was carrying crude oil and three or four of its 13 to 14 cars were breached.
"There is some spillage in the river of crude oil,"
Lynchburg city spokeswoman LuAnn Hunt told the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Richmond primarily draws its water from the James River, downstream
from Lynchburg. Another official said the city is making plans to tap an
"alternative water supply."
The train's tankers may be from a
class of rail cars deemed an "unacceptable public risk" by a member of
the National Transportation Safety Board in February. These black, pill-shaped cars, known as DOT-111s, have been involved in recent notable oil train derailments in North Dakota and Quebec.
"We are very clear that this issue needs to be acted on very quickly,"
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman told
reporters last week. The Transportation Department is currently working
on stricter standards for rail tank cars used to transport hazardous
materials. "They aren't moving fast enough," Hersman said.
In February, Plains CEO Greg Armstrong said on the company's quarter four earnings call that Yorktown is ideally situated geographically to become an oil export mecca if the ban is lifted.
When
asked by an analyst from Bank of America about the ongoing debate over
lifting the crude oil export ban, Armstrong discussed how Plains could
stand to profit from exports.
http://www.democracynow.org
- The oil giant BP is back in court for the April 2010 accident that
caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, killing 11 workers
and leaking almost five million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of
Mexico. On Monday, the second phase of the trial began with lawyers
accusing the oil company of lying about how much oil was leaking,
failing to prepare for how to handle the disaster, and for not capping
the leak quick enough. We're joined in New Orleans by Monique Harden,
co-director of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights and an attorney
who specializes in environmental justice concerns in New Orleans. In the
aftermath of the BP spill, Harden's organization exposed how the oil
giant had contracted with a claims processing company that promoted its
record of reducing lost dollar pay-outs for injuries and damage caused
by its client companies. We are also joined by John Barry, vice
president of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority -- East,
which has brought a lawsuit against 97 oil and gas companies for
destruction of the Gulf coastline, making the area more at risk from
flooding and storm surges.
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global news hour that airs weekdays on 1,200+ TV and radio stations
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Abby Martin goes over updates to the
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Carolina, exposing the human and environmental impact as well as the
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