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Texas Oil Spill Hits Home for Tar Sands Activists
2013-02-27 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: Does the Tar Sands Blockade (TSB) have a crystal ball we didnt know about? Yesterday in Tyler County, TX, a pipeline operated by Sunoco Logistics sprung a leak and spilled 20,000 gallons (or 550 barrels) of oil into local East Texas waterways. Deep East Texas is known for its creeks and lakes, freshwater eco-systems and aquifers that provide water to the eastern part of the state, including mega-cities Dallas and Houston. But oil companies treat these forests and waterways as collateral damage....
Report finds diluted oil sands bitumen not more corrosive than comparable heavy crude in pipelines
2013-02-26 13:30:21| Green Car Congress
Signs of Life for Clean Fuels Standard as Oil Sands Plans Form
2013-02-26 10:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: As concerns rise over plans to pipe Canadian tar sands oil to the East Coast for the first time, a dormant effort to clean up the region's fuels is showing new signs of life. The Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management [3] (NESCAUM) has accelerated a project to crunch the full "life cycle" carbon emissions of vehicle fuels used in the regionfrom their extraction through to their refining, transportation and combustion. With the carbon fuel tracker, NESCAUM hopes to advance a clearer...
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New Documentary Celebrates the Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade
2013-02-25 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade is an hour-long documentary film written and directed by Garrett Graham in collaboration with the Tar Sands Blockade and features exclusive video footage shot by the blockaders during the course of more than six months of sustained resistance. In 2012, Texas landowners and environmental activists came together to organize resistance against a dangerous pipeline being built by a Canadian corporation to bring tar sands oil from Alberta Canada to...
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Canada: Redford stumps for oil sands, Keystone XL pipeline in Washington
2013-02-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she's open to tougher environmental regulations, but only if current policies fall short of her goals, and not as a trade-off to win U.S. approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. "Our regulations are pretty tough," Ms. Redford said Saturday in an interview, responding to a question about whether she would tighten scrutiny of the oil sands to appease skeptics in President Barack Obama's administration. "I'm not going to start down that path. Part of the quid...
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