tar-sands

February 12, 2018

Today, the Minnesota Department of Commerce provided revisions to its final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled in December that the FEIS was inadequate, though they sidestepped a number of concerns that have been raised by Minnesotans and several state agencies including numerous calculation errors and a failure to adequately explore alternatives to this pipeline expansion or any no-build scenario.

January 23, 2018

Today, environmental groups, Tribes, Youth Climate Intervenors, and other stakeholders submitted their briefs on Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline. In their briefs, the groups laid out the reasons Enbridge should not be granted the permits to build this tar sands pipeline through Minnesota, and the threats it would pose to the state’s land, water, and communities, as well as our climate.

January 18, 2018

Today, Canadian pipeline company TransCanada made an attempt to claim that the Keystone XL pipeline is moving forward by announcing it has sufficient commercial support for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. However, TransCanada has still not committed to building the pipeline, and many obstacles remain for the controversial project.

January 9, 2018

Today, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) announced that they will continue to push through a decision on Enbridge’s controversial Line 3 tar sands pipeline, in spite of recent developments that require additional analysis.

December 19, 2017

Today, the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) voted to reject a motion from TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, to amend their application for the controversial pipeline.

December 18, 2017

Despite mounting public opposition from a broad coalition of Indigenous and environmental groups, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo renewed their participation in a set of loans totaling $1.5 billion to TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

December 12, 2017

Washington, DC -- Today, the World Bank announced that it will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction starting in 2019.

The announcement comes as financial institutions have come under increased scrutiny over their funding of dirty fossil fuels that are driving the climate crisis.

December 7, 2017

In yet another setback for Enbridge, the company behind the proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled today that the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on the pipeline is inadequate. The Department of Commerce must answer narrow questions about Karyst Typography and clarify shortcomings in the analysis.

December 4, 2017

A coalition of environmental groups filed letters today urging the Trump administration to analyze the environmental impacts of the approved route for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

November 27, 2017

Local activists will gather on Thursday at noon to rally outside Wells Fargo’s headquarters in San Francisco and demand that they divest from Keystone XL.

November 22, 2017

Today, a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit brought by environmental and landowner groups over the Trump administration’s approval of the cross-border permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline can proceed. The decision rejects attempts by the administration and TransCanada, the company behind the proposed pipeline, to have the lawsuit thrown out.

November 20, 2017

Lincoln, NE -- The Nebraska Public Service Commission’s (PSC) decision today on the route permit for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is a serious setback for TransCanada, the company behind the proposed project.