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With Tar Sands Development, Growing Concern on Water Use
2013-08-05 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Opposition to the mining of Albertas tar sands and the Keystone and Gateway pipelines that would carry their oil to the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean has largely been focused on the projects greenhouse gas emissions and threats to pristine environments along the pipeline rights-of-way. But another serious issue is coming to the fore the massive amounts of freshwater being used by the industry. In 2011, companies mining the tar sands siphoned approximately 370 million cubic meters of water...
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Canadian Regulators Investigate Mysterious Tar Sands Spills
2013-07-31 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Government regulators in Canada are investigating a series of mysterious oil spills around tar sands operations in Alberta. Thick oil is gurgling up unexpectedly from the ground instead of flowing through the wells that were built to collect it. The spills are raising questions about a technology that's rapidly expanding to extract fossil fuels that could ultimately end up in the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The extent of the spills is small, compared with the huge open pits and slag...
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Activists shut down first US tar sands mine project
2013-07-31 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: Several environmental groups protesting tar sands development in the Book Cliffs region of southeast Utah stopped work Monday on a road that will serve a strip mine to be operated by Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands. Celia Alario, a spokeswoman for Canyon Country Rising Tide and Peaceful Uprising, said dozens of protesters had peacefully stopped road building on Seep Ridge Road and also interrupted mining operations at the East Tavaputs Plateau site. Protesters surrounded heavy equipment and, in some...
FBI Investigates Tar Sands Activists as Eco-Terrorists
2013-07-22 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: As people in the Midwest and the East Coast broil in blistering temperatures, theyre reminded of how it might relate to global warming. But rather than using big data to relay the effects of climate change, a University of Minnesota undergrad is illustrating the point with his cello. Through a process referred to as data sonification, Daniel Crawford used global annual surface air temperature data from NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies and converted it into a range of musical notes....
Canada: Nobody Understands Oil Spills at Alberta Tar Sands Operation
2013-07-20 20:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Oil spills at a major oil sands operation in Alberta have been ongoing for at least six weeks and have cast doubts on the safety of underground extraction methods, according to documents obtained by the Star and a government scientist who has been on site. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has been unable to stop an underground oil blowout that has killed numerous animals and contaminated a lake, forest, and muskeg at its operations in Cold Lake, Alta. The documents indicate that, since cleanup...
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