America’s Shame in Canada’s Dirty Tar Sands

Posted on January 2, 2009 by nothoney

Fellow blogger “Tipping Point” recently posted more information about the tar sands oil project in Alberta, Canada. What’s that you say? Tar sands? What about clean energy? Tar sands is an environmentally destructive and insanely expensive method of extracting bitumen, then processed into synthetic crude oil. According to the Washington Post: Tar sands oil is [...]

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Conservationists File Suit Against Bush for Gutting the ESA

Posted on December 12, 2008 by nothoney

I got two notices late last night about the Bush Administration’s announcement that they’ve successfully reduced the Endangered Species Act into a meaningless piece of paper. One is from Defenders of Wildlife, whom I love, and the other from the Center for Biological Diversity, whom I also love. Here’s the Center’s announcement: Center Races to [...]

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CNN: Democrats Allow Offshore Drilling Ban to Lapse

Posted on September 24, 2008 by nothoney

You should be angry about this story posted this morning on CNN about Congressional Dems allowing the ban on offshore drilling to lapse – WITHOUT A FIGHT. WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in [...]

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NO DRILLING – Take Action Today!

Posted on September 9, 2008 by nothoney

It’s time to contact your Congressional representatives and tell them you do not want increased drilling that will only benefit Big Oil. Here’s some information from Defenders of Wildlife that you can use to call or write to them today! All summer, we’ve fought together to promote sound energy solutions and protect our wildlife from [...]

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Tell Congress NO! to Offshore Drilling and Drilling in the ANWR

Posted on July 17, 2008 by nothoney

Yesterday on NPR, I again heard Dubya claiming that the Democrats in Congress are to blame for high gas prices because they refuse to lift the ban on offshore drilling and refuse to allow drilling in the ANWR. I guess it still escapes our Dear Leader that gas prices were $1.46 per gallon when he [...]

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Tell Congress “No Drilling in the ANWR or Offshore!”

Posted on June 23, 2008 by nothoney

During his radio address last week, our Dear Leader blamed the Democratic-controlled Congress for high gasoline prices. He said, “If Congressional leaders leave for the Fourth of July recess without taking action, they will need to explain why $4-a-gallon gasoline is not enough incentive for them to act. And Americans will rightly ask how high [...]

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