Compilation: 12,000 Surround White House to STOP KXL Pipeline, Climate/Environmental CRIMELINE
Glenn MacIntosh | November 6, 2011
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Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 -- 12,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. and surrounded the White House to demand that President Obama reject the proposed construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada's tar sands devastation to the Gulf of Mexico. Read more below...
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- Photos - November 6th, tar sands action surrounds the White House, Facebook
- Article - Protesters encircle White House and tar sands industry, B. Farrell, Common Dreams
- Post - Standing shoulder to shoulder, changing history, Bill McKibben, TarSandsAction.org
- Article/Pics - 12,000 tar sands protesters surround White House, Brian Merchant, Treehugger
- Post - Thousands surround White House to say no KXL, Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians
- Invitation - Bill McKibben, TarSandsAction.org
U.S., Washington D.C., Aug. 20 - Sept. 3, 2011
- ecoSanity - Washington D.C. Tar Sands Action Compilation
- Website - TarSandsAction.org
- Petition - TarSandsAction.org/petition
- Website/Petition - act.350.org/sign/tar-sands
- Petition - Stop Canada's Deadly Oil, Avaaz.org
- Facebook - Tar Sands Action
- Twitter - @TarSandsAction
More About the Crime Against Humanity That is Canada's Tar Sands
- ecoSanity - Compilation: Tar Sands KILL -- Essential Facts & Resources
- ecoSanity - Compilation: Keystone XL pipeline, climate & environmental CRIMELINE!
- ecoSanity - Compilation: Ottawa Sit-in to STOP Tar Sands Devastation, Sept. 26, 2011
Articles/Blogs: Canada's Oil/Tar Sands in Alberta
- Article - Stand together against the tar sands scourge, Robert Redford, Globe and Mail
- Article/graphic - Tar sands CEO convicted of ecocide in prestigious UK test trial. Is Stephen Harper next? Barry Saxifradge, Vancouver Observer
- Article - Part 1 - Oil sands: Canada's 10 (1-6) ethical challenges, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
- Article - Part 2 - 2 more ethical challenges to Canada's oil sands, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
- Article - Part 3 - China and 2 more ethical challenges to oil sands, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
- Post - Open letter to Oprah Winfrey on 'Ethical Oil' ads, Emma Pullman, DeSmog Blog
- Article - Harper sleepwalking toward 2020 climate targets, Schindler, Smol, Weaver, TStar
- Post - To hit climate target, Canada would have to work 10 x harder, M. Bramley, Pembina
- Post - A challenge to Peter Kent from the Tar Sands, Keith Stewart, Greenpeace Canada
- Article - Cdn gov't accused of 'unprecedented' tar sands lobbying, T. Macalister, The Guardian
- Article - Keep Alberta's oil in the ground, Bill McKibben, Globe and Mail
- Article - If Brazil has to guard its rainforest, why does Canada/U.S. get to burn its tar sands? Bill McKibben, Huffpost
- Article - Canada hiding its carbon emissions growth amidst rapid tar sands boom, T. J. Scolnick, DeSmog Blog
- Article - Canada spurns Kyoto in favour of tar sands, Stephen Leahy, IPS
- Canada's UN climate inventory report clashes with Environment Canada report by a difference of 10 times, Mike de Souza, PostMedia news
- Keep Europe out of the tar sands, IEN
- Canada hides 20% annual tar sands pollution increase from UN, Emma Pullman, DeSmog Blog
- Canada's crude politics on oil sands, Martin Lukacs, The Guardian
- Letters - Collected letters from Canadian citizens to help new envir(oil)ment criminal, Peter Kent, understand ethics and tar sands, Environmental Defence
- Article - What those who killed the tar sands pollution report don't want you to know, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
- Article - The fallacy of "ethical oil", Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
- Suzuki - Will take more than rebranding to make tar sands oil "ethical", David Suzuki Fdn
- Article - Does Peter Kent even care about emissions? Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail
Articles: Alberta to Texas Keystone XL pipeline, Climate & Environmental Crimeline
- ecoSanity - Compilation: Keystone XL pipeline, climate & environmental CRIMELINE!
- Post - Puncturing the pipeline, Bill McKibben, TomDispatch
- Statement - Big news: We won. You won. Bill McKibben, for TarSandsAction
- Statement - Mother Earth achieves a victory today with Obama administration decision to delay Keystone XL pipeline, IEN
- Article - Stop the tar sands destruction - outlaw this ecocide, Polly Higgins, The Guardian
- Article/Pics - 12,000 tar sands protesters surround White House, Brian Merchant, Treehugger
- Article - Groups sue to block Keystone XL pipeline construction, Lucia Graves, Huffington Post
- Graphic - Keystone XL Pipeline corruption investigation, Friends of the Earth
- Article - Keystone Pipeline revolt: Mass arrests just the beginning, B. McKibben, Rolling Stone
- Post - "Constant and disastrously" leaking U.S. pipelines are the mess in the middle of the Keystone XL debate, Joe Romm re: Bill McKibben, Climate Progress
- U.S. awash in oil and lies, report charges, Stephen Leahy, IPS via Truthout
- Overview & Report - Exporting energy security: Keystone XL Pipeline exposed! Steve Kretzmann, PriceofOil.com
- Post - Pipelines 101, Ben Jervey, DeSmog Blog
- Post - As America's 'last best river' suffers through Exxon spill, Experts warn of risks from Kyestone XL pipeline, Climate Progress
- Article - Path appears clear for oil pipeline from Canada, Neela Banerjee, LA Times
- Article - Rupture in planned U.S. pipeline (Keystone XL) could release 7 million gallons of oil, chances of spills significantly underestimated, Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
- James Hansen slams Keystone XL Canada-U.S. pipeline: "Exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous climate impacts", Climate Progress
- Fact sheet - Keystone XL Pipeline, Friends of the Earth
- Fact sheet - Keystone XL Pipeline, NRDC
- Collected - Keystone XL Pipeline, NWF
- Collected - Keystone XL Pipeline posts, DeSmog Blog
- Website - TarSandsAction.org
General
- ecoSanity - Compilation: Tar sands KILL -- Facts & resources
- ecoSanity - Compilation: Northern Gateway pipeline, climate & environmental CRIMELINE
- ecoSanity - Compilation: Keystone XL pipeline, climate & environmental CRIMELINE
- ecoSanity - Compilation: Ottawa sit-in to STOP tar sands devastation, Sept. 26, 2011
- Website - TarSandsAction.org
- Website - DirtyOilSands.org
- Website - Pembina Institute, OilSandsWatch.org
- Website - Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) - Tar Sands
- Website - Greenpeace - Stop The Tar Sands
- Website - Petropolis-film.com
- Campaign - Greenpeace - PolluterHarmony.ca
- Website - RAN.org - Tar Sands
- Website - 350.org - Tar Sands
- Campaign - Climate Action Network Canada - End fossil fuel tax breaks
- Website - Polaris Institute - TarSandsWatch.org
- Website - Friends of the Earth - Tar Sands
- Website - NRDC - Tar sands
- Website - Council of Canadians, Tar Sands
- Special Issue - Tar Sands, The Dominion
- Website - Treehugger, Facts About the Canadian Tar Sands
- Collected - Tar sands posts, The War Over Tar Sands, TheTyee.ca
- Collected - Tar sands posts, DeSmog Blog
- Special Series - Shifting Sands, Globe and Mail
- ecoSanity - Action campaign: Tar Sands KILL!
- ecoSanity - Category: Tar sands
- ecoSanity - Compilation: Peak oil featuring Richard Heinberg, Life After Growth
- ecoSanity - Category: Peak oil
- Wikipedia - Athabasca tar sands
- Wikipedia - Shale oil
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