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16 Arrested Blocking Tar Sands Megaload in Oregon
2013-12-18 19:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Monday evening climate justice groups stopped a controversial shipment of equipment bound for the Alberta tar sands. Concerned citizens locked themselves to two disabled vehicles in front of the 901,000 pound load, blocking its route along highway 26 outside of John Day, OR. Police responded and arrested 16 at the two blockade sites. A megaload hauling tar sands equipment heading to the Athabasca oil fields in Alberta, Canada. Photo credit Northern Rockies Rising Tide Monday nights action...
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11 Arrested Protesting Tar Sands and Fracking
2013-12-13 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Friday, two activists with Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance and Cross Timbers Earth First! locked themselves inside a revolving door at the Devon Tower in Oklahoma City, OK in protest of Devons involvement in tar sands extraction and plans to increase fracking in Eagle Ford Shale. Two activists locked themselves in a revolving door in protest of tar sands extraction and fracking. Photo credit: Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance Simultaneously, a banner displaying a Mockingjay from the popular...
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Shipping crude oil by rail: New front in tar sands wars
2013-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: On New Year's Eve 2009, a train with 104 tank cars of light crude oil traveled 1,123 miles from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to a terminal in Stroud, Oklahoma, and opened a new front in the war over development of Canada's tar sands. It didn't seem that way at the time. EOG Resources, the company that owned the oil, simply needed a way to get its crude out of North Dakota, Andrew Burton/Getty Images Tanker cars at a depot in North Dakota, where railroads now move 600,000 barrels of oil a day...
Tar Sands Industry Eyes Great Lakes for Cheap Shipping
2013-11-22 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As tar sands extraction continues and proposals for expanded pipelines from Canada into the U.S. form a backdrop, the Great Lakes themselves could become the next frontier for moving crude oil to a vast Midwest refinery network. The region faces a critical choice about whether the Great Lakes should become a thoroughfare for tar sands crude shipping, a new report from Alliance for the Great Lakes warns. The report, Oil and Water: Tar Sands Crude Shipping Meets Great Lakes?, finds that neither...
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Europe 'stigmatising' Canada labelling tar sands oil highly polluting
2013-11-19 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Canada's oil from tar sands would be "stigmatised" by EU regulations labelling it as highly polluting, the country's natural resources minister said on Tuesday. Joe Oliver also said a new study ranking Canada last among industrialised countries for climate change action was "name calling" and that the country had an environmental record it was "proud of". Oliver spoke at a Canada-Europe energy summit in London, UK, which aimed to promote the "significant commercial opportunities presented by Canada's...
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