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Oil Giant Sets Sights on Getting Tar Sands Crude to Gulf Coast

2013-03-29 06:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: France's Total SA says current market conditions favour processing oil sands crude on the U.S. Gulf Coast rather than building an $11.6-billion upgrader in Alberta, as the company took a $1.65-billion (U.S.) loss on its 49-per-cent stake in the cancelled Voyageur project. Total announced the writedown a day after its partner, Suncor Energy Inc., announced the cancellation of the Voyageur project. Suncor - Canada's largest oil-sands producers - said market conditions have changed dramatically in...

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Utah Protesters Decry Tar Sands in Chevron Refinery March

2013-03-25 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Salt Lake Tribune: They carried cardboard coffins and waved banners that screamed "Dirty Energy Kills" and "Stop the Tar Sands Insanity." Some 60 hearty souls braved brisk March breezes Saturday to march one-third mile up a private road to Chevrons Salt Lake City refinery. They protested tar sands development in eastern Utah and criticized the oil giants processing of Canadian crude from Alberta tar sands. Later Saturday afternoon, however, a spokesman for Chevron said that although the Salt Lake City facility...

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Tar Sands Bill Gets Early OK in Vermont

2013-03-25 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Times Argus: The Vermont Senate has advanced legislation that would toughen environmental review over an oil pipeline if its use sees significant changes. Preliminary approval Friday came without substantial debate on the bill. It followed concerns voiced by environmental groups that owners of the Portland Montreal Pipe Line are looking to reverse its current east-to-west flow and begin shipping so-called tar sands oil from western Canada through northern New England for loading onto ships in Maine. The...

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Company: Utah Tar Sands Poised to Yield Oil

2013-03-22 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Salt Lake Tribune: For years, industry has mined paving material from the aptly named Asphalt Ridge southeast of Vernal. Soon it could also yield the states first commercial volumes of oil from tar sands under a California companys plans to process mined ore at the site near the Colorado state line. Join the Discussion Post a Comment MCW Energy Group executives say they expect to produce 250 barrels a day at the site later this year under an agreement with Temple Mountain Energy Inc., which will supply the ore....

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Draft Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline Devastatingly Cynical

2013-03-01 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: The U.S. State Department late Friday released a draft environmental impact assessment of a contentious pipeline project that simultaneously acknowledged the dangers posed by climate change while also noting the project would "not likely result in significant adverse environmental effects". Scientists and advocates have reacted with significant alarm, warning that the new report, officially a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), is merely recycling deeply flawed conclusions offered...

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