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German scientists quit oilsands research over heated public climate concerns
2013-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Pressure over environmental concerns has forced Germany's largest scientific organization to pull out of joint research with Alberta on better ways to upgrade oilsands bitumen. German scientists with the Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative will no longer work on such projects, Bernd Schneider, lead scientific co-ordinator for the Helmholtz Association, said Tuesday. "This bitumen upgrading will now be quitted," Schneider said from Potsdam, Germany. The initiative was created in 2011 with a five-year,...
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Oilsands player says the industry needs to get tough with "fat,...
2013-03-13 18:46:22| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
As oilsands firms struggle to contain costs while producing some of the world's most expensive crude, "fat, lazy and inefficient" suppliers and contractors will have to be replaced, the inaugural Edmonton Network of the Association for Corporate Growth heard Tuesday.
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Keystone Pipeline Decision May Influence Oil-Sands Development
2013-03-07 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: A U.S. decision on whether to approve TransCanada Corp. (TRP)s Keystone XL pipeline has the potential to accelerate -- or slow --investments in Canadas oil sands. A decision on the 875-mile (1,408 kilometer) U.S. portion of the pipeline, designed to carry 830,000 barrels of crude a day to Gulf Coast refineries, is expected later this year. Stopping the pipeline would mean continued discounted prices for Canadian crude, making it harder for producers to sell their commodity at a profit and potentially...
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Canada: Oilsands tailings leaking into groundwater, Joe Oliver told in memo
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canada.com: Tailings ponds from oilsands production are leaking and contaminating Albertas groundwater, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was told in an internal memo obtained by Postmedia News. The memo, released through access to information legislation, said that federal government scientists, including Quebec City-based research geoscientist Martine Savard, had discovered evidence of the contamination in new research that rejected longstanding claims that toxins in the region of the Athabasca River...
Canada: Oilsands makes Greenpeace list of top climate change villains
2013-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Canada's oilsands are midway down the pack of the world's climate change villains, according to a new Greenpeace report ranking potential carbon emissions from the globe's top energy developments. Climate enemies Nos. 1 and 2 -- by far -- are expanding coal projects in Australia and China, the report says. The oilsands don't appear until fifth spot, which is shared with projects in Iraq and the United States. "Coal is the biggest threat globally," said Keith Stewart, one of the report's authors....
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