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Small Nebraska agency might further complicate Keystone fight
2014-02-23 14:53:09| Energy - Topix.net
A small Nebraska state commission that has never considered a major oil pipeline route could soon play a pivotal role in deciding the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project brimming with political risk for both the U.S. and Canadian governments.
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Small Nebraska agency might further complicate Keystone fight
2014-02-23 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A small Nebraska state commission that has never considered a major oil pipeline route could soon play a pivotal role in deciding the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project brimming with political risk for both the U.S. and Canadian governments. A court ruling this week reinstating the Nebraska Public Service Commission's authority over TransCanada Corp's $5.4 billion project from the Alberta oil sands has raised new questions about a long-delayed project that Canada considers crucial to...
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UK floods: in defence of the Environment Agency
2014-02-18 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The flooding crisis has shone a spotlight on much that the government would prefer to remain hidden not least the coalition's quiet slashing of the Environment Agency budget. Despite advice in the wake of the 2007 floods to increase expenditure on flood defences, the government relied on its traditional mistrust of the public sector and the experts within it, and used the blunt instrument of cash limits. Prime minister David Cameron said money would be "no object" to dealing with the immediate...
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Environ Agency head Chris Smith: 'I'm not having my staff belittled'
2014-02-16 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 'It was a terrible decision to direct ministerial fire against Chris Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency," wrote Matthew D'Ancona last week in his column in the London Evening Standard. "Those on the Tory side who think of him as a political seven-stone weakling are sorely mistaken. He is a sharp customer who fights his corner." Quite an encomium for a former Labour cabinet minister from a former editor of the Spectator. I have to admit that I, too, had always thought of Smith, culture secretary...
Plan Shows Regulatory Agency and Fracking Industry in Cahoots Promote Drilling in State Parks
2014-02-16 14:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Public documents reveal a plan by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), the agency responsible for regulating fracking in Ohio, to work with "allied" groups to promote the controversial drilling technique in state parks. The "allied" groups named were both fracking industry and state regulatory bodies alike, drawing new criticisms to what many people have been calling Gov. Kasich`s agenda to have his own way with the state`s public funds and resources. The document, Oil & Gas State...
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