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State Department opens door to Keystone XL Pipeline approval
2013-03-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Anchorage Daily News: The State Department announced Friday that construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline is unlikely to have a significant impact on climate change, a finding that could open the door for President Barack Obama to approve the controversial project. The 1,700-mile pipeline would bring oil from the Alberta oil sands in Canada to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast. The Congressional Research Service has estimated that crude oil from the sands could produce 14 percent to 20 percent more planet-warming gases...
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Environmentalists diss State Dept.'s Keystone pipeline review
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The State Department riled environmentalists with a largely positive review Friday of a controversial Canada-to-U.S. pipeline, saying the project would not significantly alter the development of Canada's tar sands. In its long-awaited draft environmental review of the Keystone XL, the State Department said the pipeline won't make much of a difference to climate change because the tar sands will likely be developed anyway. "Approval or denial of the proposed project is unlikely to have a substantial...
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US State Department says Keystone XL won't impact global warming
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline has cleared a significant political hurdle in the United States after a State Department assessment concluded the project would not contribute to the warming of the planet. Assistant Secretary of State Kerri-Ann Jones cautioned that the department's report, released late Friday, does not provide a recommendation on the project. But activists who oppose the pipeline condemned the work as a "botch job" that unduly minimizes the environmental impacts,...
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State Dept. Keystone report plays down climate fears
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: The State Departments long-awaited environmental report on the Keystone XL pipeline leaves President Barack Obama with no real scientific reason to reject the nations most fiercely debated energy project. The sprawling 2,000-page report, released late Friday afternoon, doesnt issue a clear yea or nay on a sprawling section of pipeline that would traverse from western Canada to Oklahoma. But the reports key takeaways including a conclusion that the project would have no significant impacts...
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State Dept: Build the Keystone pipeline or not, the oil sands crude will flow
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: The State Department issued its long-awaited supplementary environmental impact assessment (SEIS) this afternoon on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship up to 830,000 barrels a day of Canadian oil sands crude to the U.S. The full report is some 2,000 pages long--and was released at the very end of the week, thanks very much, State Department--but you can boil it down to one sentence: Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed Project, remains unlikely...
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