not over ...Occupy Moab Yesterday at 9:29am · In a dramatic showdown Tuesday, the Senate narrowly missed a 60-vote threshold required to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Fourteen Democrats supported the measure along with all 45 Republicans. With just 59 aye votes, the measure failed to pass. After Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced the tally, a man reportedly with the Lakota Tribe of South Dakota burst out in song, followed by protesters who called out Democrats who voted in support of the pipeline. After Tuesdays vote, Republicans vowed to immediately bring the bill back in January, when they will hold the Senate majority. This comes as newly leaked documents reveal the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline is engaged in a perpetual campaign to mobilize support for another pipeline connecting the tar sands oil fields to an ocean port, this one entirely inside Canada -- by passing opposition in the United States. Strategy documents drafted for TransCanada by the public relations firm Edelman, the world’s biggest privately held PR firm, also detail its lobbying strategy and efforts to mobilize some 35,000 supporters. We speak to Cyril Scott, president of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, and Suzanne Goldenberg, environment reporter at The Guardian. Watch all the Democracy Now! reports on the Keystone XL pipeline in our archive: democracynow.org/topics/ke... youtu.be/G5vxJj2Sr-o
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:26:05 +0000
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