Oil boom prompts US to push for crude exports
28 Oct 2014

By VALERIE BROWN.- Oil and coal producers in the United States are planning to use mile-long tanker trains to transport vast quantities of fossil fuels to the coast through areas that environmental groups believe should be protected.
The change in world fossil-fuel production, consumption and costs caused by tar sands exploitation in Canada and the fracking boom in the US is causing what Bill McKibbon − author, environmental activist and co-founder of the international climate campaign group 350.org − calls a “chokepoint” in the unspoiled northwest of the country.
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