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sad sally

(2,627 posts)
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 06:24 PM Oct 2012

New England Tar Sands Pipeline Plotted 'Behind Closed Doors'

Oil giants lobby tar sands plan behind closed doors while denying their intention

- Common Dreams staff



A new analysis released today by national and regional environmental groups shows that US oil giant Exxon Mobile and Canada's Suncor hold a majority stake in a pipeline system that local residents along its route fear could soon be used to transport tar sands from western Canada to the New England coast.

The central concern of the report (pdf) surrounds a 2008 proposal by Canadian oil giant Enbridge to reverse the flow of existing east-to-west oil pipelines that would allow transport of tar sands oil—categorized by many as the "dirtiest oil in the world"—from Alberta to the coast of Maine.

The local companies who manage the pipelines companies insist the idea has been shelved for economic reasons, but multiple recent actions lead the environmental groups to believe that the proposal is now being quietly revived behind closed doors. Pointedly, the groups argue that the oil giants who own these local pipeline subsidiaries should not be trusted.

"Unbeknownst to most of the public," said the groups in a statement, "a major portion of the proposed tar sands pipeline that would cut across the Great Lakes, Ontario, Quebec and New England to Portland, Maine, is actually owned by oil giants Exxon-Mobil, Imperial Oil, and Suncor Energy – all of whom have a deep stake in tar sands extraction."

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/10-9

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New England Tar Sands Pipeline Plotted 'Behind Closed Doors' (Original Post) sad sally Oct 2012 OP
is this being approved on State levels? sasha031 Oct 2012 #1
Vermont would put up a heck of a fight grntuscarora Oct 2012 #2

sasha031

(6,700 posts)
1. is this being approved on State levels?
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 06:46 PM
Oct 2012

for instance,in TX Perry & oil companies have already started the pipeline & taken away peoples land by eminent domain.

grntuscarora

(1,249 posts)
2. Vermont would put up a heck of a fight
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 08:22 PM
Oct 2012

before allowing tar sands through the Northeast Kingdom, I suspect. That's Bill McKibbon's home turf.

I hope this Trailbreaker plan is dead and buried, but the fossil fuel industry cannot be trusted. Not ever.

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