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Canada's tar sands aren't just oil fields. They're sacred lands for my people
2015-06-23 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For years, concerned members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) in Canada, like myself, have voiced concerns about the impacts caused by oil sand exploitation. The vast majority of our community resides downstream from large scale oil sands surface mining and has seen first hand the complex impacts this industry has. Now, over 100 renowned scientists and academics have echoed our concerns about oil sands in a call for a moratorium on expansion, which is being taken seriously by the...
MIT panel calls for targeted divestment in coal, tar sands
2015-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: In a sweeping new report, a climate change committee at MIT has thrown its support behind targeted divestment from coal and tar sand companies and called for the creation of a new institute dedicated to global warming. The 52-page report, released this week, described climate change as "society's grandest challenge of the present day, possibly of all time,' and urged broad action in confronting it. "The time has come for MIT to play a prominent, visible part in the action and solutions needed...
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ExxonMobil brings Kearl oil sands expansion online ahead of schedule; overall capacity doubling to 220K barrels per day
2015-06-17 12:55:44| Green Car Congress
Canada: Climate change fight will hamper oil sands returns: Statoil exec
2015-06-12 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Financial returns in the oil sands stand to weaken under the most sweeping efforts to fight global climate change, a top oil producer said Thursday, as some of the industrys leading companies call for increased carbon fees. Statoil ASAs chief economist said that high-cost projects in oil sands and ultra deepwater deposits would struggle to adapt should the industrialized world move aggressively to limit global warming by no more than 2 C above preindustrial levels. Eirik Waerness said such an...
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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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