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EU abandons 'dirty' label for tar sands oil
2014-10-07 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A European Union plan to label tar sands oil as highly polluting in its fight against climate change has been abandoned after years of opposition led by major producer Canada. A proposal published by the European Commission on Tuesday removes an obstacle to Canada exporting tar sands crude to Europe and comes at a time when tensions between the EU and top oil supplier Russia are running high. EU sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the desire for a trade deal with Canada had been a...
The Overview: Alberta Tar Sands
2014-09-24 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: These satellite images, taken from July 1984 through May 2011, reveal the development of the Athabasca oil sands, commonly called "tar sands," which lie at the heart of Albertas oil deposits. Tar sands mining, which has become a significant issue for environmentalists, has been rapid and extensive, growing to cover nearly 260 square miles of the Canadian province by 2011. It has also proven lucrative for Alberta: Nearly 2 million barrels of oil are produced every day, according to the provincial...
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Canada: The case for a moratorium on tar sands development
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In a widely publicized commentary in Nature this summer, aquatic ecologist Wendy Palen and seven colleagues were sharply critical of the way that Canada and the United States have gone about developing Albertas vast tar sands deposits and the extensive infrastructure of pipelines and rail networks needed to transport those fossil fuels to market. Rather than looking at the cumulative effect of this massive energy Simon Fraser University Wendy Palen development on the climate and the environment,...
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As Keystone awaits fate, other tar sands projects move forward
2014-09-04 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The federal government has quietly approved major tar sands transportation projects with unstudied environmental effects -- managing to circumvent the executive branchs impact analysis that paralyzed development of the Keystone XL pipeline and bolstered activists claims that the project is dangerous and damaging to the environment. Over the past few years, the Keystone pipeline has become a household name. The controversy caused by Canadian pipeline company TransCanadas project, which would...
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Urge Pepsi To Stop Guzzling Tar Sands
2014-09-04 03:54:45| Beverages - Topix.net
In July of 2013, Moms Clean Air Force joined in an open letter to top North American businesses. The agenda was to strongly "urge" them to stop using fuel derived from tar sands sources.
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