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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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Australian minister: I never saw advice against coal port
2013-04-26 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's environment minister said he never saw advice that a proposed coal port posed "extreme" risks including threats to endangered turtles and a species of dolphin at the Great Barrier Reef. Campaigners said Tony Burke should have ruled out the Fitzroy Terminal as soon as the government received the strongly worded warnings, rather than allow the company to undertake a lengthy environmental impact statement. But a spokeswoman said the minister had not seen the 2011 advice and the...
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Premiera s office tells TCE Oakville plant killed before telling energy minister
2013-04-25 20:33:18| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
It appears the premier's office told the developer of the Oakville gas plant that the project was cancelled before anyone told Ontario's energy minister.
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Premiera s office tells TCE Oakville plant killed before telling energy minister
2013-04-25 20:27:24| Energy - Topix.net
It appears the premier's office told the developer of the Oakville gas plant that the project was cancelled before anyone told Ontario's energy minister.
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United Kingdom: Minister confirms plan to increase support for renewable heat technologies
2013-04-22 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The financial returns for businesses installing renewable heat technologies are likely to increase from next year, after climate minister Greg Barker confirmed an upcoming consultation on the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme will increase tariffs for some technologies. Speaking to BusinessGreen as part of a wide-ranging interview on the policy, Barker acknowledged the department had faced a series of technical and resource issues that have resulted in repeated delays to the introduction of...
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