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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...
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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UPDATE 1-CNRL inspecting evacuated oil sands site, fires still burn
2015-06-02 02:16:16| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Firefighters made progress tackling wildfires in the key oil-producing region of northern Alberta on Monday that shut in 10 percent of total oil sands production and workers are beginning to return to assess the damage. For more than a week, 233,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude has been shut in after companies with facilities close to uncontrolled wildfires rushed to evacuate staff.
UPDATE 1-CNRL inspecting evacuated oil sands site, fires still burn
2015-06-02 01:41:54| Energy - Topix.net
Firefighters made progress tackling wildfires in the key oil-producing region of northern Alberta on Monday that shut in 10 percent of total oil sands production and workers are beginning to return to assess the damage. For more than a week, 233,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude has been shut in after companies with facilities close to uncontrolled wildfires rushed to evacuate staff.
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