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EPA chief says Keystone Pipeline wouldn't climate 'disaster'

2015-03-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mashable: The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told a Washington audience on Monday that building the contentious Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico would not, by itself, constitute a "climate disaster." Many opponents of the pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico for export, argue that it would lead to the emissions of enough planet-warming greenhouse gases that it would be game over for efforts to constrain the amount...

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Senate fails to override Obama's Keystone pipeline veto

2015-03-05 10:11:38| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The Senate on Wednesday failed to override President Obamas veto of a bill that would have approved construction of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline. A bipartisan majority of senators were unable to reach the two-thirds vote required to undo a presidential veto. The vote was 62 to 37. The measures defeat was widely expected, and was the latest twist in the clash over the proposed 1,179-mile pipeline, which would move about 800,000 barrels of carbon-heavy petroleum per day from the...

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February's top stories: Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline project; Europa Oil & Gas begins drilling

2015-03-02 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology

US President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, and Europa Oil & Gas has started drilling at the Kiln Lane-1 exploration well in northeast Lincolnshire, the UK. Hydrocarbons Technology wraps up the key hea

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