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Canada: RCMP Arrest Protesters at Kinder Morgan Tar Sands Pipeline Expansion
2014-11-23 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: An 11-year-old girl was among those arrested Sunday as a crowd protested survey work by the Texas-based Kinder Morgan company for a tar sands pipeline expansion through the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby. In late October, Canada`s National Energy Board granted Kinder Morgan access to begin work on their TransMountain tar sands pipeline expansion project in a designated conservation area on Burnaby Mountain. In response, community members have established a camp and prevented Kinder Morgan from...
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Playing politics with tar sands oil
2014-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Just when President Obama marches forward on the issue of climate change, Congress scuttles backward. Last week in Beijing, America and China agreed to significant joint reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Over the weekend, at the G-20 meeting in Brisbane, Australia, Mr. Obama pledged a $3 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund, a multilateral effort to help vulnerable countries develop clean energy sources and adapt to the impacts of global warming. And Congress? On Friday, the House...
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Groups Sue U.S. State Dept. to Stop Alberta Clipper Tar Sands Pipeline
2014-11-12 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yesterday the Washington Spectator ran an investigative piece tearing the veil of secrecy from the Alberta Clipper pipeline project, a plan by Canadian mining company Enbridge to build a pipeline nearly equal in length and capacity to the Keystone XL to transport tar sands crude oil to the Gulf of Mexico for refining and exporting. With the U.S. State Departments cooperation, Enbridge found a loophole to circumvent the legal approval process needed to cross the international Canadian/U.S. border....
Public opposition has cost tar sands industry $17bn, says report
2014-11-03 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Anti-tar sands campaigns have cost the industry a staggering $17bn (11bn) in lost revenues, and helped to push it onto the backfoot, according to a study by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), and Oil Change International. Another $13.8bn has been lost to transportation bottlenecks and the flood of cheap crude coming from shale oil fields, says the Material Risks report, which presents the first quantification of the impact that environmental campaigners have had...
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Companies pulling out of Canadian tar sands oil
2014-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: With crude prices sharply down and the future of the Keystone XL pipeline in doubt, energy companies are dubious about investing in oil from the Alberta Tar Sands. OnEarth writer Brian Palmer discusses the problems facing the industry with host Steve Curwood. Transcript CURWOOD: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Boston and PRI, this is Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood. The price of oil has been plummeting, down some 25 percent since June, and as we record this show, the price per...
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