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Canada sticks to line on oil sands at UN climate summit
2014-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq heads to the United Nations climate summit this weekend with no new targets and no commitment to action on Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gases in the oil sands, but with a pledge to crack down on a little-known chemical that represents a tiny portion of this country's emissions. Ms. Aglukkaq will join global environment ministers in Lima next week as negotiators attempt to reach a draft agreement that would commit countries to aggressive action...
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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Alberta approves Cenovus Energys Telephone Lake oil sands project
2014-11-17 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) in Canada has approved Cenovus Energys Telephone Lake thermal oil sands project.
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Regulator probes waterfowl landings on toxic Canada oil sands ponds
2014-11-05 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: New reports of waterfowl landing on toxic ponds of industrial waste in the oil sands of northern Alberta are being investigated by the Canadian province's energy regulator in light of the death of 1,600 ducks on such ponds in 2008. That incident six years ago led to charges against one of the biggest companies in the tar sands and boosted environmental opposition to operations there. "We've received reports from a few different companies in the area that there have been waterfowl landing on...
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EU scraps plan to label tar sands oil as highly polluting
2014-10-07 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Commission on Tuesday proposed scrapping a mandatory requirement to label tar sands oil as highly polluting after years of industry opposition. The new proposal abandons one obstacle to Canada shipping crude from tar sands to Europe and is likely to draw strong criticism from environmental campaigners and Green politicians. It is suggested in a revised draft law on how refiners report the carbon intensity of the fuel they supply. The debate about labelling tar sands, also known...
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