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UK indicates support for EU to import Canadian tar sands
2013-05-17 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Leaked reports seen by The Guardian show that the UK has rejected a proposal in European Union (EU) negotiations to classify oil from tar sands as highly polluting, giving a strong indication it wants to allow European countries to import carbon-inte
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Canadian government drops over $16 million on advertising its tar sands
2013-05-16 17:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Canadian government has nearly doubled its advertising spending to promote the Alberta tar sands in an aggressive new lobbying push ahead of Thursday's visit to New York by the prime minister, Stephen Harper. The Harper government has increased its advertising spending on the Alberta tar sands to $16.5m from $9m a year ago. The Canadian Press news agency, which first reported on the increase in advertising spending by the Department of Natural Resources, said the television advertising...
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10 Reasons Canadas Tar Sands Suck
2013-05-16 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pardon my french, but Canada`s tar sands suck. As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in poverty. I feel like we are being played for fools here in Canada, because foreign owned oil companies like ExxonMobil, British Petroluem and PetroChina (71 percent of oil sands production is owned by foreign shareholders) are making billions exporting raw tar sand...
Canada: After Upset Election, Route for Tar Sands to Pacific Doesn't Close
2013-05-16 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Environmentalists suffered a setback on Tuesday when British Columbia re-elected a premier who left the door open for approval of two oil pipelines that would carry tar sands oil across B.C. to the Pacific Coast, where it could be exported to the world market. Despite trailing in the polls, incumbent Christy Clark, the leader of B.C.'s Liberal Party, defeated Adrian Dix and his New Democratic Party. Dix had opposed both pipelines, and environmental groups had hoped his win would signal the end of...
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Pipeline Owner Asks Vermont to Reconsider Tar Sands Oil Ruling
2013-05-16 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The owner of a crude oil pipeline that runs between Maine and Montreal is asking Vermont environmental regulators to reconsider a ruling that would require a new review under the state's land-use planning law if the company seeks to move Canadian tar sands oil to Portland for possible shipment to markets across the world. In its motion to reconsider, the Portland-Montreal Pipeline Corp. Pipeline said the coordinator of the District 7 Environmental Commission, who issued the ruling last month,...
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