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Lawsuit Filed to Keep "Earth's Dirtiest Oil" Out of U.S.

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03 September 2009, 1:43 PM
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Lawsuit Filed to Keep "Earth's Dirtiest Oil" Out of U.S.

Pipeline would bring 450K barrels of dirty Canadian crude a day
www.dirtyoilsands.org
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Native American and environmental groups filed suit Thursday in federal court in San Francisco challenging a proposed tar sands oil pipeline that would bring the dirtiest oil on Earth from Canada to the United States.

The U.S. State Department’s approval on Aug. 20 of Enbridge Energy's Alberta Clipper pipeline permits 450,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day to be pumped from northern Alberta to Superior, Wis., for refining.

Tar sands oil is dirtier and, over its lifecycle, emits more global warming pollution than any other type of oil. Tar sands development in Alberta is creating an environmental catastrophe, with toxic tailings ponds so large they can be seen from space, and plans to strip away forests and peat lands of an area the size of Florida.

"The Alberta Clipper will mean more air, water and global warming pollution, particularly in communities near refineries that process tar sands oil," said Earthjustice attorney Sarah Burt in a press release. "The State Department fails to show how building a pipeline to import the dirtiest oil on Earth is in our national interest.”

You can download the complaint here.See more photos of the devastation of tar sands at www.dirtyoilsands.org.

Comments

Submitted by Oduox (not verified) on January 25, 2010 - 5:40am.
This is terrible to hear. I think there is far to much awful stuff being put out into the Earth's atmosphere. I want it just to stop. Oduox
Submitted by Mark (not verified) on January 22, 2010 - 3:20am.
Dirty oil....I think that we have to do with dirty minds :( Torrent site
Submitted by Helen (not verified) on December 8, 2009 - 5:41am.
thank you so much for what you do! even drawing attention to such problems is very valuable to my mind. I'm so glad more and more people get interested in preserving the planet we live in and our small (and big) neighbours we are responsible for. have read lots of articles on the topic downloaded by torrent search engine , but always glad to find smth new. have never been much concerned about global warming pollution, but after watching the film about human oil consuming and its impact on the nature really got scared and decided to do as much as I can. sure, it's not enough, but together I believe we can still manage to acieven some results, gain some time.
Submitted by John Beacock (not verified) on September 17, 2009 - 10:18pm.
The dirtiest oil on earth ? The real issue is not the billions of tons of carbon being pumped into the atmosphere .., it is the thousands and thousands of people who died in kuwait and iraq for the the thirst of American oil, its the fact we have it (Canadians). Okay - lets shut it off. We will keep it for ourselvs. And the water too.
Submitted by Mats Andren (not verified) on September 14, 2009 - 5:05pm.
jesus christ...David Ickes theories about pedophile lizardpeople ruling the world, ludicrous as they are, are not actually far from the truth I think?? I mean, how can people do things like this for some stinking money?? They cant possibly be human...

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