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First Keystone Pipeline Pumped Little Extra Money into Local Economies
2013-09-02 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Lincoln Star: TransCanada has pointed to the economic benefits that will accrue for Nebraska towns and counties along the path of its Keystone XL pipeline, but a check of retail sales figures for the 10 counties crossed by its first pipeline doesn't show a consistent economic boost. In fact, net taxable retail sales in eight of those counties declined in 2009, the prime construction year for Keystone 1 in Nebraska, compared with 2008. Sales rose in Seward County by less than 1 percent and by 1.1 percent in Cedar...
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Keystone XL Pipeline Flunks Climate Test, New Report
2013-08-30 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Environmental advocates delivered a report on the climate effects of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to President Barack Obama today, with the intention of giving the President all the information he needs to reject the pipeline. Sierra Club and Oil Change International compiled the report, which finds that the bitumen produced from the oil sands of northern Alberta would push climate change into overdrive. The report concludes that the Keystone XL pipeline is the "linchpin" of further tar...
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Flanagan South Oil Sands Pipeline Avoids Keystone XL Scrutiny
2013-08-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The most valuable piece of farmland in Shelby County this summer isnt growing soybeans or corn. Its holding a hardier crop -- steel pipe. On a field just north of this tiny farm town along Missouri Highway 15, about 60 miles of pipe is stacked neatly in four rows that stretch almost as far as the eye can see. In the coming months, the hundreds of pieces will be strung together as part of Enbridge Energy Co.s Flanagan South Pipeline, a new 589-mile artery that will transport heavy Canadian...
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Keystone XL pipeline from Canadian tar sands
2013-08-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: The Obama administration needs to stop delaying the Keystone XL pipeline, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., said this week in a statement in support of a new study he says confirms his belief that the pipeline would have no impact on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. After five years and numerous studies, all pointing to the same conclusion, the White House and opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline project have exhausted all arguments, read Hoeven's statement, released Thursday. Its time to stop delaying...
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Amid Keystone pipeline debate, two costly cleanups forever change U.S. towns
2013-08-11 00:33:51| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
As the Obama administration inches closer to a decision on whether to approve the construction of the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline, costly cleanup efforts in two communities stricken by oil spills portend the potential hazards of transporting heavy Canadian crude.
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