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27/4/2013
At a time when Canadian officials are aggressively defending TransCanada's Keystone XL
pipeline project, Alberta's Energy Department is quietly considering an Arctic alternative to carry their bitumen to market.
The department is ...
19/4/2013
Opponents of TransCanada`s Keystone XL
tar sands
pipeline packed a State Department public hearing on its latest environmental analysis of the
pipeline to warn that it is all risk for the United States, with no reward.
More than 1,000 ...
18/4/2013
When ExxonMobil's Pegasus
pipeline ruptured last month [3] in Mayflower, Ark., it was carrying diluted bitumen, a controversial form of oil from Canada's
tar sands region. That was confirmed in a letter an Exxon lawyer wrote to the U.S. ...
4/4/2013
With the controversy over the Keystone XL
pipeline extension surfacing yet again - opponents will hold a rally Wednesday night in San Francisco`s Pacific Heights neighborhood, outside a fundraiser President Obama is headlining--we thought we`d ...
4/3/2013
Environmentalists got some bad news when the State Department released a report on Friday – a full month earlier than had been anticipated – saying that there are no convincing environmental reasons that the Keystone XL
pipeline should not be ...
1/3/2013
Environmentalists are fuming over the conclusion from the State Department that the Keystone XL
pipeline -- a fiercely-debated proposal to transport heavy crude from Alberta's oil
sands deposits 1,700 miles to the U.S. Gulf Coast -- would be ...
1/3/2013
The State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline Friday, suggesting that the project would have little impact on climate change.Canada’s oil
sands will be developed even if ...
1/3/2013
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 ...
16/2/2013
- The largest climate rally in U.S. history is expected Sunday in Washington DC with the aim of pressuring President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL
tar sands
pipeline.
Activists are calling Keystone "the line in the
sand" ...
15/2/2013
It’s not exactly as if hell has frozen over, for me, an oil and gas geologist to be protesting -- maybe even beyond the extent allowable by law – the folly of the proposed Keystone XL
Pipeline. I’ve hugged a tree or two before, written some ...
10/2/2013
Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL
pipeline, which, if built, is slated to ...
23/1/2013
James Hansen has been publicly speaking about climate change since 1988. The NASA climatologist testified to Congress that year and he's been testifying ever since to crowds large and small, most recently to a small gathering of religious leaders ...
8/1/2013
The wake up call that Hurricane
Sandy gave us was but one of many just in the last year. We can see that climate change is happening all around the country after the wildfires, droughts, floods and violent storms of 2012. So when President Obama ...
1/1/2013
A dangerously obese man, serious about his New Year's resolution to lose weight, would not begin the year by buying $7 billion worth of fat-producing candy. Nor would any nation serious about reducing greenhouse gases approve construction of a $7 ...
17/8/2012
The Canadian company, TransCanada, has begun construction on the U.S. leg of the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline, installing segments in east Texas even as the fate of the
pipeline’s
northern leg remains in question. Company officials ...
1/7/2012
Repairman Shawn Flett stood 30 feet above the ground on the deck of a truck the size of a house. He had just waved it gingerly into the repair shop as if guiding an airplane into a hangar.This is a beast of a machine, with 14-foot tires ...
4/5/2012
The company also unveiled a new route for the
pipeline through Nebraska. President Obama, environmentalists and many Nebraskans -- including the state's Republican governor, Dave Heineman -- had raised concerns that the project's original route ...
21/1/2012
LAST Wednesday, President Obama announced his decision to turn down the application of TransCanada, a Canadian corporation, to construct the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL
Pipeline, designed to convey thick crude oil processed from
tar sand ...
20/1/2012
A high-stakes legal battle is underway in California over whether the state's clean air agency can enforce a first-ever rule to slash carbon emissions in transportation fuels. The fight is being closely watched because the rule could choke global ...
24/12/2011
The Obama administration confirmed this week that a provision in the payroll tax bill requiring a quick decision on the proposed Keystone XL oil
pipeline from western Canada to the Gulf Coast will probably lead to cancellation of the ...
27/11/2011
Here's the essential fact to bear in mind. The
tar sands of
northern Alberta are the second-largest pool of carbon on earth, second only to Saudi Arabia. It's burning Saudi Arabia, more than any other single thing, that has raised the temperature ...
25/11/2011
An Alberta study has found that crude from the province's oil
sands is no more corrosive to
pipelines than conventional oil, but it points out there is no definitive peer-reviewed research on the issue, which has played a role in Keystone XL ...
24/11/2011
The Obama Administration's recent decision to delay the approval process for the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline has shifted attention to alternate routes for bringing a glut of
tar sands oil in Canada to refineries and ports ...
22/11/2011
The U.S.-imposed delay of TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL oil
pipeline shows Canada's energy industry cannot relax efforts to improve its environmental record, a former top minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government said on ...
3/9/2011
Actresses Darryl Hannah and Margot Kidder and hundreds of less well-known activists are ending a two-week civil disobedience campaign focused on preventing Obama administration approval of a
pipeline to ferry oil extracted from Canadian
tar sands ...