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Keystone report raises pressure Obama approve pipeline
2014-01-31 15:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pressure for President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline increased on Friday after a State Department report played down the impact it would have on climate change, irking environmentalists and delighting proponents of the project. The agency made no recommendation in its report on whether Obama should grant or deny an application by TransCanada Corp to build the $5.4 billion line, which would transport crude from Alberta's oil sands to U.S. refineries. But the State Department said...
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Keystone (XL) Cops, Part XLVIII: Pipeline Gets State Department's Green Light
2014-01-31 14:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Even the timing is too much: 3 p.m. on a Friday. And not just any Friday--the one just before the Super Bowl. Thats when--moments ago; go Seahawks!--the U.S. Department of State decided to release its hotly anticipated report on the environmental safety of the Keystone XL, the $5.4 billion, 875-mile final leg of a network of pipelines carrying Alberta crude to refineries and tankers in Port Arthur, Tex. Its genius. You can almost hear a State Department bureaucrat telling her colleagues: Well...
Keystone XL oil pipeline clears significant hurdle
2014-01-31 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared a major hurdle toward approval Friday, a serious blow to environmentalists' hopes that President Barack Obama will block the controversial project running more than 1,000 miles from Canada through the heart of the U.S. The State Department reported no major environmental objections to the proposed $7 billion pipeline, which has become a symbol of the political debate over climate change. Republicans and some oil- and gas-producing states in the U.S....
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Keystone XL review 'say pipeline will not appreciably increase emissions'
2014-01-31 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US State Department is poised to issue an environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that will likely say the project will not appreciably increase carbon emissions, sources said late Thursday, forcing President Barack Obama closer to a tough decision. Rumours swept through Washington late Thursday that the long-delayed review of the 1,179-mile (1,900-km) pipeline to bring oil from Canada to Nebraska would finally be released as soon as Friday. "The Environmental Impact...
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State Department Report: Keystone XL Pipeline Leaves Little Climate Impact
2014-01-31 09:05:00| OGI
A U.S. State Department report has concluded that the Keystone XL pipeline will not significantly worsen climate change, according to congressional aides briefed on the study, in a setback for opponents of the project.
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