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Scientists Say Tar Sands Development And Limiting Climate Change Incompatible
2015-06-11 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: More than 100 scientists from the U.S. and Canada called for a moratorium on the development of tar sands Wednesday, saying the carbon-intensive form of energy was "incompatible" with limiting climate change. The scientists published a consensus statement laying out 10 reasons why mining of tar sands - an energy source that`s found largely in Alberta, Canada`s Athabasca region and whose mining has led to significant deforestation and forest degradation in the province - needs to be halted. Those...
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Dozens of Canada's tar sands projects on hold as prices fall, analysis shows
2015-05-29 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Oil companies have frozen dozens of projects in Canadas tar sands, amid falling prices and a rising tide of protest against one of the worlds most polluting fossil fuels. Some 39 projects containing 13bn barrels of oil are currently delayed or on hold, according to analysis by the campaign group Oil Change International published on Friday. The projects a combination of open-cast mines and drilling would pump 7.8bn tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere if they went ahead, the equivalent emissions...
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Canada must deal with tar sands emissions, says Clinton campaign chief
2015-05-28 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Canada faces a widening rift with America over climate change unless it deals with excessive emissions from the Alberta tar sands, according to a trusted adviser to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. John Podesta told the Guardian that Canada must do more to compensate for its exploitation of the carbon intensive tar sands ahead of a critical conference in Paris aimed at reaching an international agreement to fight climate change. Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper has championed...
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REFILE-RPT-INSIGHT-Funds feel heat of coal and tar divestment drive
2015-05-27 04:01:23| Energy - Topix.net
For Rivka Micklewaite and fellow students, securing a pledge this week from Oxford University to avoid direct investments in companies producing coal or tar sands is just the beginning. Getting that commitment involved a two-year campaign during which they staged a "marriage" between the 900-year-old university and "Big Oil" before breaking it up, to symbolise the need to end investment in fossil fuels, Micklewaite said.
INSIGHT-Funds feel heat of coal and tar divestment drive
2015-05-26 12:43:24| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
For Rivka Micklewaite and fellow students, securing a pledge this week from Oxford University to avoid direct investments in companies producing coal or tar sands is just the beginning. Getting that commitment involved a two-year campaign during which they staged a "marriage" between the 900-year-old university and "Big Oil" before breaking it up, to symbolise the need to end investment in fossil fuels, Micklewaite said.
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