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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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Oil Sands Mining Uses Up Almost as Much Energy As It Produces
2013-02-19 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The average "energy returned on investment," or EROI, for conventional oil is roughly 25:1. In other words, 25 units of oil-based energy are obtained for every one unit of other energy that is invested to extract it. But tar sands oil is in a category all its own. Tar sands retrieved by surface mining has an EROI of only about 5:1, according to research scheduled to be released Tuesday. Tar sands retrieved from deeper beneath the earth, through steam injection, fares even worse, with a maximum...
Oil Sands Monitoring Program Stalled as Ottawa, Alberta Debate Details
2013-02-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: The revamping of environmental monitoring of the oil sands was supposed to be the federal government's defence against suspicions of widespread damage. Now, a full year after Alberta and Ottawa unveiled a three-year plan to set aside their differences and keep a closer watch on the air, water and habitat in northern Alberta, there are still no formal results. The Conservatives are striving to shore up their environmental credentials in the wake of a public chiding from the federal environmental...
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Canada: Government Hones Oil Sands Message with Focus Groups
2013-02-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Focus-group testing on what the Harper government calls its Responsible Resource Development campaign found the advertising to be light on facts but uplifting and patriotic, according to a government-commissioned study. The fruits of that taxpayer-funded labour will again be on display this spring as a second wave of ads -- designed to persuade Canadians of "the importance and impact of Canada's energy sector" -- hits the air. Natural Resources Canada has budgeted $9 million in the current...
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Tar Sands Oil Fight Moves to Maine Towns
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Portland Press Herald: Code Enforcement Officer Chris Hanson eyed the door of the selectmen's chambers every time it opened, counting each person who came into the room -- something he doesn't often have to do. The room was nine people short of capacity just before the start of the meeting Tuesday evening, when it would become the latest battleground for the Portland Pipe Line Corp. and environmentalists trying to prevent the company from carrying so-called tar sands oil through the Sebago Lake watershed. The owner...
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