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WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers President Charles T. Drevna today welcomed passage of the North American Energy Access Act by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a 33-20 bipartisan vote. The bill would require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue a permit for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline within 30 days of receiving an application. (Logo:...
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite political opposition, the Keystone XL Trans-Canada oil pipeline is a viable economic and environmental alternative according to David Hackett, president at Stillwater Associates, an oil and energy consulting firm based in Irvine, CA. The Keystone XL initiative was designed to deliver heavy sour crude oil from sources in Alberta, Canada and light sweet crude oil from North Dakota to US refineries along the Gulf Coast. With recent...
Bowing to Partisan Politics Not the Right Way to Proceed, says Union WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard expressed support for the Administration's decision to challenge partisan politics and not bow to Republican pressure to prematurely approve TransCanada's permit to develop a proposed 1,700-mile pipeline. The Keystone XL Pipeline would transport crude oil and bitumen from Alberta, Canada to the...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- LIUNA - the Laborers' International Union of North America - said today it has left the BlueGreen Alliance in response to job-killing attacks on the Keystone XL pipeline by some of the alliance's labor and environmentalist members. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91600LOGO) "AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka recently said there was a divide in the labor movement over this project," LIUNA General President...
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC called President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project "disappointing." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "Failure to move forward to approve and build the Keystone XL pipeline threatens our country's energy security, and also slights Canada, our dependable, democratic ally and neighbor," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. AJC had urged President Obama to approve the Keystone XL...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Green America strongly commends President Obama for his wise decision, announced this afternoon, to reject the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline. The proposed pipeline would extend nearly 2,000 miles from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast. This Canadian project poses severe consequences for human health and the environment while further entrenching the dirty fossil fuel economy and failing to generate lasting jobs. Investment in...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is disappointed in President Barack Obama's decision today to deny the application for the Keystone XL Pipeline project. This decision is in direct opposition to ALEC's Resolution in Support of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was approved earlier this month by the ALEC Legislative Board of Directors. "ALEC members understand that the Keystone XL project is vital to this nation's energy...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the words "We Can't Wait" truly ring hollow for skilled craft construction professionals across this nation. Those are the words that have been uttered by President Obama time and time again as he states he will work around an obstructionist U.S. Congress to take action to address our nation's continuing unemployment crisis. One clear opportunity to demonstrate his commitment to unemployed Americans was the approval of the...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Petrochemical & Refiners Association President Charles T. Drevna today issued the following statement after the announcement that the Obama administration has rejected a construction permit for the Keystone XL pipeline: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110309/MM60639LOGO) "President Obama has given in to political pressure from extremist opponents of fossil fuels and turned his back on American consumers...
NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Audubon President David Yarnold Calls Obama Decision on Keystone Pipeline "A Victory for Common Sense." Full Statement: "This was a gutsy call by the President. But it was also a victory for common sense. You don't pipe potentially lethal goo through one of America's largest wetland ecosystems. "An environmental disaster of epic proportions has been avoided by the rejection of the Keystone pipeline, but we need to stand...
