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State Dept. hid contractors ties to Keystone XL pipeline company

2013-03-21 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Late on a Friday afternoon in early March, the State Department released a 2,000-page draft report downplaying the environmental risks of the northern portion of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would ferry oil from Canada`s tar sands to refineries in Texas, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. But when it released the report, the State Dept. hid an important fact from the public: Experts who helped draft the report had previously worked for TransCanada,...

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State Dept. Hid Contractors Ties to Keystone XL Pipeline Company

2013-03-21 15:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Jones: Late on a Friday afternoon in early March, the State Department released a 2,000-page draft report downplaying the environmental risks of the northern portion of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would ferry oil from Canada`s tar sands to refineries in Texas, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. But when it released the report, State hid an important fact from the public: Experts who helped draft the report had previously worked for TransCanada, the company...

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Claims against BP contractors dismissed at trial

2013-03-20 23:44:35| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

A federal judge conducting a trial to assign fault for the nation's worst offshore oil spill dismissed claims Wednesday against a BP contractor and the company that made a key safety device on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering the disaster.

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