{"id":20268,"date":"2020-05-06T01:07:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caridad.vamtam.com\/?p=20268"},"modified":"2020-05-06T01:07:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:07:31","slug":"expanding-the-line-3-tar-sands-pipeline-would-put-water-and-climate-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/expanding-the-line-3-tar-sands-pipeline-would-put-water-and-climate-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding the Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline Would Put Water and Climate At Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Trump lost big in court last Friday when a federal judge in Alaska threw out his plan to open up the Arctic Ocean to more oil drilling.\n<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrump lost big in court last Friday. A federal judge in Alaska threw out his plan to open up the Arctic Ocean to more oil drilling. Trump was hoping no one would notice the fact that the Arctic had already been permanently protected from drilling by President Obama, but a coalition of environmental and Alaska Native groups, including Greenpeace, took him to court and won!\n\nThis ruling is a vindication of your hard-fought activism to protect the Arctic and roll back the expansion of the oil industry \u2014 and it shows that Trump, for all his bluster and crazy tweets, has to respect the rule of law. Here\u2019s how we got here.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and oil and gas companies have cynically tried to take advantage of the region\u2019s melting ice to search for new places to drill. In 2015, Royal Dutch Shell made a play to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea, north of Alaska. Not only would this have been a disaster for the climate, but an oil spill in the Arctic would be impossible to clean up. Not to mention that Shell\u2019s history of screw-ups and mistakes didn\u2019t exactly inspire confidence.\nGreenpeace and the climate movement rose up to say #ShellNo. People piled into kayaks and canoes to confront Shell\u2019s drilling rig, the Polar Pioneer, in Seattle.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBuilding on this momentum, thousands of people called on President Obama to use his legal authority to make the U.S. Arctic Ocean off limits from future oil drilling. In late 2016, Obama took action to permanently protect all of the Chukchi Sea and the vast majority of the Beaufort Sea \u2014 as well as a number of biologically important undersea canyons in the Atlantic.This was a big victory for the people-powered climate movement, signalling that the relentless expansion of the oil industry into new areas was finally at an end.But then Trump happened.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Trump came into office calling climate change a hoax and giving handouts to dirty energy companies. His plan to open up nearly every U.S. coastline to more oil and gas drilling was extremely unpopular, and in the case of the Arctic Ocean, it outright ignored the fact that Obama had already ruled out future leasing there.<\/p>

Trump\u2019s new offshore oil plan called for lease sales in the Beaufort Sea starting in 2019 and the Chukchi Sea in 2020. In response, Greenpeace joined with other groups in a lawsuit to challenge the plan in court. Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council led the litigation, representing Greenpeace along with Alaska Wilderness League, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, League of Conservation Voters, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL), Sierra Club, and the Wilderness Society.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\tThe key issue was that when Congress enacted the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), it gave the president authority to withdraw areas from oil and gas leasing, but made no mention of revoking previous withdrawals.\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Doe<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTweet<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s an act that only Congress itself can take. Judge Sharon Gleason agreed with this analysis, and as she stated in her ruling, Obama\u2019s withdrawals \u201cwill remain in full force and effect unless and until revoked by Congress.\u201d The government may appeal this ruling, but for now this is a big victory for the climate.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump lost big in court last Friday when a federal judge in Alaska threw out his plan to open up the Arctic Ocean to more oil drilling. Trump lost big in court last Friday. A federal judge in Alaska threw out his plan to open up the Arctic Ocean to more oil drilling. Trump was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samples.digital-impressions.co.ke\/pamoja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}