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Judges rule study not needed for oil sands project
2015-09-29 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: Federal judges today denied environmentalists' challenge to a 600-mile pipeline carrying oil sands crude from Illinois to Oklahoma. Attorneys from the Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation told the court that the government should have conducted more thorough environmental assessments of Enbridge Inc.'s Flanagan South pipeline, but the three-judge appeals panel today rejected their argument. Central to environmentalists' case was their contention that the government should have analyzed...
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Legacy Building Solutions to Exhibit Fabric Structures at Oil Sands Trade Show
2015-09-17 12:31:11| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EDMONTON, Alberta - Legacy Building Solutions of Canada will be showcasing custom tension fabric structures for the oil sands, heavy oil and conventional oil industries at the Oil Sands Trade Show in Fort McMurray September 15-16, 2015. Legacy buildings are customizable for a variety of oilfield and oilsands...
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Enbridges Aging Tar Sands Pipelines Beneath Great Lakes Are Ticking Time Bomb
2015-09-10 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Straits of Mackinac is a narrow waterway that separates Michigan`s lower peninsula from its upper peninsula. The straights connect two of the Great Lakes: Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. But underneath this iconic part of the Great Lakes are two 62-year old pipelines. The pipelines have never been replaced, despite the well-documented risk of a rupture. "If just one of the pipelines ruptured, it would result in a spill of 1.5 million gallons of oil--and thats if Enbridge, the company that owns...
One of the Worlds Largest Universities Divests From Coal & Oil Sands
2015-09-10 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yielding to pressure from campaigners across the state who spent years pushing the University of California (UC) to divest its holdings from fossil fuels, the university systems chief investment officer announced yesterday that the $91 billion fund would begin by pulling all direct investments out of coal and tar sands mining companies. Those investments, totaling $200 million, have already been removed. Incredible news -- University of California dumps coal & oil sands investments: http://t.co/IIQQJ5e4ax...
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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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