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Canadian Minister Takes Tar Sands Lobbying to Europe

2013-05-06 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A European Union plan to label crude from the Alberta oil sands as dirty is unfair and could damage Canada's bid to find new export markets, the Canadian resources minister said at the start of a mission to lobby against the idea. As part of a plan to cut greenhouse gases from transport fuel, the EU's executive commission has developed a Fuel Quality Directive that would single out oil from Alberta's tar sands as more polluting than conventional crude. Canada, whose oil sands are the world's...

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Spilled tar sands oil could be creeping toward the Arkansas River

2013-04-24 13:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Rocker Neil Young wanted to see for himself the damage from ExxonMobil`s ruptured Pegasus oil pipeline, which recently spewed reeking, black goo into small-town Mayflower, Ark. So Young, a stalwart environmentalist, drove his revamped, super fuel-efficient hybrid 1959 Lincoln Continental into Mayflower on Monday, unannounced. A few people snapped pictures with Young (local blogger Shelli Russell bumped into a telephone pole while chasing him down). But regardless of how cool his car is, its unlikely...

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Tar Sands Pipelines Emerge as Central Issue in B.C. Election

2013-04-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Vancouver Sun: B.C. New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix's criticism Monday of Kinder Morgan's proposed $5.4-billion oil pipeline marks the latest twist in an election campaign that, for the first time in B.C.'s modern history, has the oil-and-gas industry emerging as a centrepiece issue. Dix, already opposed to Enbridge's $6.5-billion pipeline to Kitimat, stopped just short of condemning the Kinder Morgan plan to twin its existing line from Alberta to Burnaby. He has been under considerable pressure from...

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Exxon s Tar Sands Spill

2013-04-08 14:58:00| Hydrocarbons Technology

Exxon s Tar Sands Spill

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Tar sands oil spill? Or just 'heavy' oil spill? Exxon loves having it both ways

2013-04-04 04:43:44| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

As everybody knows by now, Exxon Mobil's 848-mile-long Pegasus pipeline spilled more than half-a-million gallons of ... uh ... er... gooey black stuff in the little community of Mayflower, Arkansas, just in time to make Easter really smelly and messy for residents of one development.

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