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Breaking: ANWR, Keystone Drilling Rejected Again! (updated)
Breaking: ANWR, Keystone Drilling Rejected Again!
by Senor Unoball
The U.S. Senate continues to be a bastion of common sense regarding foolhardy proposals to drill-baby-drill everywhere in sight.
Today, the Senate voted 41 yes, 57 no, on a proposal that would have opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The vote was on a measure that needed 60 votes to avoid filibuster.
In the same vote, the Senate rejected construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The proposals were amendments to the Transportation Bill under debate.
According to the Anchorage Daily News:
Three Democrats voted for the proposal: Mark Begich of Alaska, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Manchin of West Virgina.
Very surprised that Mary Landrieu did not vote in favor, actually, as she is among the most pro-oil Senators we have.
Republicans voting against were Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine; Scott Brown of Massachusetts; Bob Corker of Tennessee; Jim DeMint of South Carolina; Marco Rubio of Florida; and Mike Lee of Utah.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/13/1074109/-Breaking-ANWR-Drilling-Rejected-Again-
by Senor Unoball
The U.S. Senate continues to be a bastion of common sense regarding foolhardy proposals to drill-baby-drill everywhere in sight.
Today, the Senate voted 41 yes, 57 no, on a proposal that would have opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The vote was on a measure that needed 60 votes to avoid filibuster.
In the same vote, the Senate rejected construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The proposals were amendments to the Transportation Bill under debate.
According to the Anchorage Daily News:
The 78-page amendment is similar to legislation passed by the Republican-controlled House passed last month. It would require the Interior Department to lease huge areas in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to drilling as well as approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project from the Canadian oil sands in Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.
Adrian Herrera, who is paid by the state of Alaska to lobby Congress to open ANWR, has called the proposal a "hail Mary" measure that includes lots of things for senators to find fault with.
Adrian Herrera, who is paid by the state of Alaska to lobby Congress to open ANWR, has called the proposal a "hail Mary" measure that includes lots of things for senators to find fault with.
Three Democrats voted for the proposal: Mark Begich of Alaska, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Manchin of West Virgina.
Very surprised that Mary Landrieu did not vote in favor, actually, as she is among the most pro-oil Senators we have.
Republicans voting against were Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine; Scott Brown of Massachusetts; Bob Corker of Tennessee; Jim DeMint of South Carolina; Marco Rubio of Florida; and Mike Lee of Utah.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/13/1074109/-Breaking-ANWR-Drilling-Rejected-Again-
Roll Call: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00038
Updated to add:
Meet the worst Senate amendment that ever lived
By Sarah Parsons
It’s ba-aack — the Keystone XL pipeline, that is. The Senate is set to vote tomorrow on an amendment created by Big Oil wearing a Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) mask. The amendment would revive everyone’s favorite pipeline — and, while it was at it, greenlight all the other oil-hungry environmental ruination that Republicans go in for.
The Senate defeated Keystone yet again last week, but Sen. Roberts included the pipeline in amendment #1826 of the Senate transportation bill (S. 1813). And that’s not the only Big Oil party favor he stuck in this grab bag of evil:
In fact, Roberts’ amendment would double America’s oil drilling, a feat achieved by opening up new areas off the Atlantic and California coasts and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres of pristine land that nearly 200 species of wildlife call home. Millions of acres in the West would throw their doors open to oil shale development, an environmentally damaging and extremely energy-intensive process. Oh, and that dang Keystone XL pipeline would get the go-ahead without even requiring an environmental review.
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http://grist.org/list/meet-the-worst-senate-amendment-that-ever-lived/
By Sarah Parsons
It’s ba-aack — the Keystone XL pipeline, that is. The Senate is set to vote tomorrow on an amendment created by Big Oil wearing a Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) mask. The amendment would revive everyone’s favorite pipeline — and, while it was at it, greenlight all the other oil-hungry environmental ruination that Republicans go in for.
The Senate defeated Keystone yet again last week, but Sen. Roberts included the pipeline in amendment #1826 of the Senate transportation bill (S. 1813). And that’s not the only Big Oil party favor he stuck in this grab bag of evil:
It would mandate drilling off of every coast in our nation and in the Arctic Refuge, allow oil shale development on millions of acres in America’s west, and allow the already-rejected Keystone XL pipeline to go forward.
In fact, Roberts’ amendment would double America’s oil drilling, a feat achieved by opening up new areas off the Atlantic and California coasts and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres of pristine land that nearly 200 species of wildlife call home. Millions of acres in the West would throw their doors open to oil shale development, an environmentally damaging and extremely energy-intensive process. Oh, and that dang Keystone XL pipeline would get the go-ahead without even requiring an environmental review.
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http://grist.org/list/meet-the-worst-senate-amendment-that-ever-lived/
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are what I like to call (Republican) "Zombie Policies" because no matter how bad these kind of proposals are (or probably will be) for this country and no matter how badly it polls or how unlikely it is going to be helpful for our country, they keep getting re-introduced over and over again. Sometimes, some of them even get approved eventually. I wish somebody could just put a stake through them once and for all!
