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Killing The Keystone Pipeline Won't Stop The Oil Sands Being Mined

2013-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Forbes: I have to admit that I dont really understand one of the arguments being used against the Keystone pipeline project. Several of the arguments I do understand and simply disagree with, but one of them I just dont get in some important manner. Thats the one that if the pipeline isnt built then the oil in the tar sands wont be extracted and thus climate change is be less likely. This just doesnt ring true for me. Mark Perry provides one little chart to show why: As the Wall Street Journal pouts...

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Vt. Panel Says State Green Law Applies on Tar Sands Pipeline

2013-04-16 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Environmental regulators ruled Monday that the state's Act 250 land use law would apply to any proposal to reverse the flow in an oil pipeline system that crosses northern Vermont. The ruling from the District 7 Environmental Commission coordinator in St. Johnsbury is a victory for environmentalists amid fierce debate over another pipeline, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to move tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas. Groups like the National Wildlife Federation and the Vermont Natural Resources...

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Will We Ever See a Technology for Cleaning Up Oil Sands Tailing Ponds?

2013-04-11 16:08:53| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Dozens of companies have come forward with possible solutions for cleaning up oil sands tailing ponds -- artificial reservoirs of toxic water runoff. Unfortunately, oil sands producers continue to dodge around a mandate to actually test and implement any such technologies.

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Carbon Tax Called a Threat to Oil Sands Projects

2013-04-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Calgary Herald: A proposal to increase Albertas carbon levy to $40 per tonne and target a 40 per cent cut in carbon emissions from big emitters could affect the viability of thermal oilsands projects, a Calgary investment bank warns. But FirstEnergy Capital added in a research report published Monday morning that the additional costs may be a justifiable trade-off if the plan convinces U.S. President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. In the note, analyst Michael Dunn calculates the proposal...

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Exxon s Tar Sands Spill

2013-04-08 14:58:00| Hydrocarbons Technology

Exxon s Tar Sands Spill

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