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Academics warn Canada against further tar sands production
2013-05-08 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Canadian government's promotion of the tar sands industry is setting the world on a course of catastrophic climate change, a group of climate scientists and economists have warned. In a letter made available to the Guardian, the academics urged Canada's natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, to consider the consequences of his support for expanding Alberta's tar sands production. Oliver has in recent months emerged as the main proponent for the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington and other...
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Maine Committee Eyes Moratorium on Tar Sands Oil
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Journal: A bill creating a two-year moratorium on the transportation of "tar sands" oil in Maine pit environmental groups against those who say the ban would have far-reaching negative effects on the economy during testimony before the Legislature`s Environment and Natural Resources Committee on Monday. The bill, LD 1363, calls for a legislative resolve setting the moratorium while directing the state`s Department of Environmental Protection to study the potential impacts of moving oil sands, known by...
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Canada: Debate on Kinder Morgan Tar Sands Pipeline Takes Center Stage in B.C. Election
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rabble: For a climate organizer, the ongoing British Columbia election campaign has been a rare treat. For the first time in a very long time, climate change and fossil fuels are taking centre stage in an election campaign. The past two federal elections have been marked more by the absence of discussion of climate change than its presence. Even in the most recent U.S. federal election, climate only broke into the campaign thanks to the force of a climate supercharged hurricane crashing into New York...
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Tar Sands Disaster: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?
2013-05-06 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: New reports of tar sands oil-related disasters continue to reinforce that the Keystone XL pipeline is too risky for American families. Despite a "massive cleanup effort," ExxonMobil has recovered only 2,000 of the total 5,000 barrels of spilled Canadian tar sands crude in Mayflower, AK, according to the accident incident report from last month`s Pegasus pipeline disaster. The report was released by the Department of Transportations Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)...
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Canadian Minister Takes Tar Sands Lobbying to Europe
2013-05-06 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A European Union plan to label crude from the Alberta oil sands as dirty is unfair and could damage Canada's bid to find new export markets, the Canadian resources minister said at the start of a mission to lobby against the idea. As part of a plan to cut greenhouse gases from transport fuel, the EU's executive commission has developed a Fuel Quality Directive that would single out oil from Alberta's tar sands as more polluting than conventional crude. Canada, whose oil sands are the world's...
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