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Spilled tar sands oil could be creeping toward the Arkansas River

2013-04-24 13:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Rocker Neil Young wanted to see for himself the damage from ExxonMobil`s ruptured Pegasus oil pipeline, which recently spewed reeking, black goo into small-town Mayflower, Ark. So Young, a stalwart environmentalist, drove his revamped, super fuel-efficient hybrid 1959 Lincoln Continental into Mayflower on Monday, unannounced. A few people snapped pictures with Young (local blogger Shelli Russell bumped into a telephone pole while chasing him down). But regardless of how cool his car is, its unlikely...

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EPA on Keystone XL: Significant Climate Impacts from Tar Sands Pipeline

2013-04-24 02:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: In a draft assessment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, consultants for the U.S. State Department judged that building it would have no significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Why? Because the analysts assumed the tar sands oil would find a way out with or without the new pipeline. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not agree. Keystone XL's ability to carry an additional 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day is vital to expanded production of the tarry crude in Alberta....

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Tar Sands Pipelines Emerge as Central Issue in B.C. Election

2013-04-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Vancouver Sun: B.C. New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix's criticism Monday of Kinder Morgan's proposed $5.4-billion oil pipeline marks the latest twist in an election campaign that, for the first time in B.C.'s modern history, has the oil-and-gas industry emerging as a centrepiece issue. Dix, already opposed to Enbridge's $6.5-billion pipeline to Kitimat, stopped just short of condemning the Kinder Morgan plan to twin its existing line from Alberta to Burnaby. He has been under considerable pressure from...

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Vt. Panel Says State Green Law Applies on Tar Sands Pipeline

2013-04-16 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Environmental regulators ruled Monday that the state's Act 250 land use law would apply to any proposal to reverse the flow in an oil pipeline system that crosses northern Vermont. The ruling from the District 7 Environmental Commission coordinator in St. Johnsbury is a victory for environmentalists amid fierce debate over another pipeline, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to move tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas. Groups like the National Wildlife Federation and the Vermont Natural Resources...

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