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Bill Nye Depressed by Tar Sands Extraordinary Exploitation of Environment
2015-09-03 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Bill Nye recently took a trip north to the Alberta tar sands while filming his new science documentary and he did not mince words about the state of Canada`s crude oil reservoir. Thank you @BillNye & National Geographic for coming to see the #tarsands & its impacts and talk about #climatechange pic.twitter.com/2jjuzabsAm -- Melina LM (@Melina_MLM) September 2, 2015 Producing all this oil thats producing all this carbon dioxide, thats not good from a global stand point, the children`s...
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1st US tar sands mine set open for business in Utah
2015-08-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: On a remote Utah ridge covered in sagebrush, pines and wild grasses, a Canadian company is about to embark on something never before done commercially in the United States: digging sticky, black, tar-soaked sand from the ground and extracting the petroleum. The impending opening of the nation's first tar sands mine has become another front in the battle across the West between preservationists and the energy industry. U.S. Oil Sands has invested nearly $100 million over the last decade to acquire...
Supreme Court of Canada will not hear CN's appeal over coal tar pollution lawsuit
2015-08-12 18:14:00| Railroads - Topix.net
OTTAWA - Canada's highest court recently announced it will not hear an appeal from Canadian National Railway Company, which in 2014 had a 25-year-old lawsuit - arising from a requirement to clean up land polluted more than 55 years ago by coal tar - dismissed due to delay.
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Canada's tar sands aren't just oil fields. They're sacred lands for my people
2015-06-23 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For years, concerned members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) in Canada, like myself, have voiced concerns about the impacts caused by oil sand exploitation. The vast majority of our community resides downstream from large scale oil sands surface mining and has seen first hand the complex impacts this industry has. Now, over 100 renowned scientists and academics have echoed our concerns about oil sands in a call for a moratorium on expansion, which is being taken seriously by the...
MIT panel calls for targeted divestment in coal, tar sands
2015-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: In a sweeping new report, a climate change committee at MIT has thrown its support behind targeted divestment from coal and tar sand companies and called for the creation of a new institute dedicated to global warming. The 52-page report, released this week, described climate change as "society's grandest challenge of the present day, possibly of all time,' and urged broad action in confronting it. "The time has come for MIT to play a prominent, visible part in the action and solutions needed...
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