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Canada: Keystone XL and Canadian tar sands are incompatible with solving climate change
2013-10-25 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The exploitation of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada - which may contain more oil than the entire world has consumed to date has attracted considerable controversy lately. Massive expansion of tar sands operations are planned, but this cannot happen if many new pipelines out of landlocked Alberta are not built. Two such pipelines Enbridge Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan Transmountain would cross through British Columbia and have ignited such fierce opposition that they have little prospect...
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Pepsi and Coke, Stop Using Tar Sands Oil
2013-10-24 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Environmental groups Sierra Club and ForestEthics targeted Coke and Pepsi in two full page USA Today print ads yesterday for their use of oil from tar sands in corporate car and truck fleets. The ads are part of a national campaign to eliminate the use of oil from Canadian tar sands by corporate car and truck fleets. The groups are targeting the soda industry with the "Tastes Like Tar Sands" campaign, which has generated more than 75,000 messages to soda industry executives. As the advertisements...
Taxing tar sands, chasing Goliath
2013-10-24 14:37:59| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: I could not help thinking of David versus Goliath earlier this week as I was working on a letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. I was writing about the tax that Europe applies to unconventional fossil fuels in its Fuel Quality Directive: Will it account for all the emissions during the mining and processing of such fuels or will they pretend that energy from tar sands and oil shale is the same as conventional oil? It matters a lot. Fees tacked to oil from tar...
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First-Ever Footage of Aging Tar Sands Pipelines Beneath Great Lakes
2013-10-15 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This past July, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) conducted a diving expedition to obtain footage of aging oil pipelines strung across one of the most sensitive locations in the Great Lakes, and possibly the world: the Straits of Mackinac. Footage of these pipelines has never been released to the public until now. This NWF map simulates a 3, 6 and 12 hour spill from the tar sands oil pipeline based on Enbridge spill response plans, average current speeds and worse case discharge estimates....
Climate change sceptics aren't all alike, so don't tar them with the same brush
2013-10-09 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last week my friend and onetime colleague, the UK government's former climate adviser John Ashton, berated the BBC for giving Australian climate sceptic Bob Carter undue airtime in its reporting of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The geneticist Steve Jones also weighed in, reminding the corporation not to fall into the trap of "false balance" by treating the views of sceptics equally alongside mainstream climate researchers. The nub of their argument is that...
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