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Voice Your Concerns About Keystone XL Pipeline: Six Days Left to Comment
2013-04-17 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: From the beginning, we`ve known that Keystone XL pipeline would be a climate disaster. We took James Hansen`s words seriously when he said that exploiting the tar sands would mean "essentially game over" for the climate. Yesterday, a new report showed that it could be worse than we thought. The report--the most comprehensive study of Keystone`s climate impacts yet--shows that the pipeline would carry 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, equal to 51 coal plants worth of carbon....
Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Exacerbates Climate Change
2013-04-17 12:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: The Keystone XL Pipeline would move enough tar sands oil to result in another 181 million metric tons of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere yearly. A new report prepared by environmental group Oil Change International (OCI) analyzes what the climate change impacts of the proposed pipeline might be. Consultants hired by the U.S. State Department determined that completing the Keystone XL Pipeline that would transport tar sands from Canada to Texas would have no impact on greenhouse gas emissions,...
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Keystone XL pipeline: Could Congress bypass Obama to get it built?
2013-04-17 06:14:15| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Coated steel pipe is stored in Little Rock, Ark. Congress has previously tried to approve the Keystone XL pipeline by shifting permitting authority to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or Congress.
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Keystone XL Pipeline Would Hasten Climate Change: Report
2013-04-16 22:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: In a new report, "Cooking the Books: How The State Department Analysis Ignores the True Climate Impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline," environmental groups and scientists opposed to the pipeline warn of "climate disaster" if President Barack Obama allows it to cross the Canada-U.S. border, carrying tar sands bitumen from Alberta to Nebraska. The U.S. portion of the Keystone XL pipeline needs no Presidential Permit, Oklahoma, January 2013. (Photo by Laura Borealis / Tar Sands Blockade) In its...
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Today: Double Dose of Keystone Pipeline in Congress
2013-04-16 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: A panel of the GOP-led House Energy and Commerce Committee will mark up legislation that would authorize construction of Keystone. The bill will almost certainly clear the Energy and Power subcommittee, and then pass through the full committee later this week. GOP leaders plan to bring the bill to the floor before Memorial Day, Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said recently. TransCanada Corp.s project would bring oil from Canadian oil sands projects across the border en...
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