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Canada: Will The Northern Gateway Pipeline Proposal Go Forward?
2014-06-13 19:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Planetsave: With a decision imminent, a group of prominent Canadian politicians and businessmen are calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline project. The Premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as three former Conservative cabinet ministers, have joined with the heads of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canadian Chamber of Commerce and B.C. Chamber of Commerce to say this is a project thats right for our time. Will the Northern Gateway Pipeline...
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Keystone, Northern Gateway pipeline pressure mounts oil bottleneck costs economy $50-million a day
2014-06-12 07:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harpers government, which has failed to persuade President Barack Obama to approve TransCanada Corp.s Keystone XL, is turning up the heat on the U.S. administration. Finance Minister Joe Oliver, Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird traveled to New York this week, arguing in media interviews and at an energy conference that Obama has unfairly entangled the $5.4 billion pipeline with U.S. politics. According to Oliver,...
Keystone XL's Northern Leg: A Fracked Oil Pipeline Along with Tar Sands
2014-02-06 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: On January 31, President Barack Obama's U.S. State Department released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the northern leg of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The State Department's FEIS argues that the northern half of Keystone XL, if built, "remains unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands, or the continued demand for heavy crude oil at refineries in the United States." But flying under the media's radar so far, the State...
Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Gets Approved, Ignores Massive Opposition
2013-12-23 18:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In a long-awaited announcement, the National Energy Board (NEB) released the final recommendation from the Joint Review Panel (JRP) to approve the contentious Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project--along with a lengthy list of conditions that must be met for the pipeline to go ahead. The panels report, released last week in Calgary, follows years of heated public debate and fierce opposition to the project across British Columbia--opposition that wont be letting up any time soon. This...
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Canada: Northern Gateway Pipeline Opposition Groups Threaten 'Direct Action'
2013-12-23 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Opponents of Northern Gateway said Friday that the war against the pipeline will now be waged against the federal government, which will decide the project's fate after a federal review panel recommended approval. A coalition of environmental groups gathered in Vancouver the day after the National Energy Board released its report and recommendations, to say that Calgary-based Enbridge may have had the support of the panel, but not the public. Gerald Amos, chairman of the Friends of Wild Salmon...
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