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EU vote puts Canadian tar sands label back on agenda

2014-12-03 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Europe moved a step back towards a plan to stigmatize Canada's tar sands as highly polluting on Wednesday, despite years of Ottawa's lobbying the EU bloc as part of its export drive. European Parliament lawmakers put the plans back on the agenda by voting against the EU executive's proposal to abandon the scheme. The veto vote was passed at committee level, meaning it still has to get through a full session of the European Parliament in the coming weeks in order to force the European Commission...

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Canada green energy jobs surpass oil sands employment

2014-12-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: Canada's green energy sector has grown so quickly and has become such an important part of the economy that it now employs more people than the oil sands. About $25-billion has been invested in Canada's clean-energy sector in the past five years, and employment is up 37 per cent, according to a new report from climate think tank Clean Energy Canada to be released Tuesday. That means the 23,700 people who work in green energy organizations outnumber the 22,340 whose work relates to the oil sands,...

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Canadian Author Donates Prize Money Fight Tar Sands Pipeline, Inspires Outpouring Cash

2014-11-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ThinkProgress: The North American anti-pipeline movement just received a significant injection of financial and psychological energy, and it started with a book award. On Sunday, 24-year-old Quebecois activist and author Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois donated a CA$25,000, or just over $22,000, literary prize to an anti-pipeline citizen`s group. The group is part of a consortium fighting the controversial Energy East pipeline project that would bring oil from the tar sands in Canada`s western provinces nearly 3,000 miles...

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Canada: RCMP Arrest Protesters at Kinder Morgan Tar Sands Pipeline Expansion

2014-11-23 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: An 11-year-old girl was among those arrested Sunday as a crowd protested survey work by the Texas-based Kinder Morgan company for a tar sands pipeline expansion through the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby. In late October, Canada`s National Energy Board granted Kinder Morgan access to begin work on their TransMountain tar sands pipeline expansion project in a designated conservation area on Burnaby Mountain. In response, community members have established a camp and prevented Kinder Morgan from...

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Playing politics with tar sands oil

2014-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Just when President Obama marches forward on the issue of climate change, Congress scuttles backward. Last week in Beijing, America and China agreed to significant joint reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Over the weekend, at the G-20 meeting in Brisbane, Australia, Mr. Obama pledged a $3 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund, a multilateral effort to help vulnerable countries develop clean energy sources and adapt to the impacts of global warming. And Congress? On Friday, the House...

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