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Taxing tar sands, chasing Goliath
2013-10-24 14:37:59| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: I could not help thinking of David versus Goliath earlier this week as I was working on a letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. I was writing about the tax that Europe applies to unconventional fossil fuels in its Fuel Quality Directive: Will it account for all the emissions during the mining and processing of such fuels or will they pretend that energy from tar sands and oil shale is the same as conventional oil? It matters a lot. Fees tacked to oil from tar...
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First-Ever Footage of Aging Tar Sands Pipelines Beneath Great Lakes
2013-10-15 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This past July, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) conducted a diving expedition to obtain footage of aging oil pipelines strung across one of the most sensitive locations in the Great Lakes, and possibly the world: the Straits of Mackinac. Footage of these pipelines has never been released to the public until now. This NWF map simulates a 3, 6 and 12 hour spill from the tar sands oil pipeline based on Enbridge spill response plans, average current speeds and worse case discharge estimates....
Canada's First Tar Sands Unit Train to Run in November
2013-10-04 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Western Canada's first crude-by-rail unit train terminal is set to start transporting 50,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude to the U.S. market next month, the CEO of operating company Canexus said. The terminal in Bruderheim, Alberta, which will be expanded to 100,000 bpd by the second half of next year as a second supply pipeline is connected, initially will load only "dilbit" oil, or heavy bitumen crude from Canada's oil sands region mixed with 30 percent light condensate, Gary Kubera, chief...
Michael Froman, U.S. Trade Official, Lobbies For Tar Sands Oil In EU Negotiations
2013-09-25 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Building the Keystone XL pipeline is only part of the equation. Once the Canadian tar sands are pumped and piped to refineries on the Gulf Coast, the industry still needs to find buyers for its end product -- much of which will be exported. That's where U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman comes in. Environmental groups in the U.S. and the European Union are worried that Froman, the chief trade official for the United States, has been quietly working to pressure the EU to make it easier...
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Setting the Record Straight on Tar Sands and Water Use
2013-09-24 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Big Oil is spending millions of dollars to try to greenwash the tar sands, Canadas fastest growing source of greenhouse gas pollution. A new report, Reality Check: Water and the Tar Sands, sets the record straight on industry claims that misrepresent the tar sands industrys use of the Athabasca River. The report counters claims by industry and industry-affiliated groups about the use of freshwater from the Athabasca River, the toxicity of tailings, the amount of tailings leaking into the watershed...
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