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Enbridges tar sands pipelines
2013-07-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: CURWOOD: In his recent address on climate change, President Obama pledged not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline if it would add significantly to global warming. Many Keystone opponents heard that as a death-knell for the project, but the overall climate impact of the pipeline will depend on whether the diluted bitumen, dilbit, from the Canadian Tar Sands would be able to get to the market anyway. And there may be another way. According to the online publication InsideClimateNews, the Enbridge Company...
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Bay Area Battles Chevrons Dangerous Tar Sands Refinery
2013-07-03 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: 350BayArea.org, joined by local groups and unions, last week announced plans for a massive protest Aug. 3 at California`s Chevron Richmond oil refinery. Smoke from the Chevron refinery explosion spreads across the bay. Photo by Drew Dellinger, a bay area resident. The largest greenhouse gas polluter in the state, Chevron, along with the other four Bay Area refineries, is already refining tar sands oil from Canada, brought into the area by rail. Chevron is among industry giants pressing for...
Tar sands activists in Commons protest against Canadian PM
2013-06-13 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Three environmental activists demonstrating during a visit to parliament by the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, have been arrested, say police. Environmental campaigners against tar sands, a form of fuel that produces more emissions than conventional oil, have posted a video showing them on the roof of parliament, with a statement saying they wanted to disrupt the premier's address to MPs and peers. The Love Canada Hate Tar Sands site said: "We have entered parliament to interrupt...
Detroit struggles with tar sands refinery in pictures
2013-06-07 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One day in November, mysterious black piles appeared on the banks of the Detroit River, not far from the Motor City's downtown and right next to the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest international crossing in North America. These huge stockpiles of petroleum coke, the byproduct of refining tar sands oil at the Marathon refinery in south-west Detroit, are owned by Koch Carbon, run by businessmen Charles and David Koch. This series of photographs takes a closer look at the people the petroleum coke piles...
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Canadian tar sands crude heads to Bay Area refineries
2013-06-02 17:01:41| Energy - Topix.net
While politicians, environmentalists and Big Oil fight over the Keystone XL pipeline, the Bay Area's five refineries have quietly moved toward transporting controversial Canadian tar sands crude oil via another means: rail.
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