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New Arctic trade routes create opportunities for commerce and polluting
2013-11-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The expansion of the Panama Canal is expected to create new economic opportunities for the United States and the world, but how the canal is used and whether or not it sees competition from emerging Arctic sea routes will also have implications for the climate. In recent weeks, Vice President Joe Biden has been touting the job growth and efficiency gains the $5.25 billion Panama expansion will bring. The project, set for completion in 2015, will double the canal's current capacity by allowing for...
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Europe 'stigmatising' Canada labelling tar sands oil highly polluting
2013-11-19 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Canada's oil from tar sands would be "stigmatised" by EU regulations labelling it as highly polluting, the country's natural resources minister said on Tuesday. Joe Oliver also said a new study ranking Canada last among industrialised countries for climate change action was "name calling" and that the country had an environmental record it was "proud of". Oliver spoke at a Canada-Europe energy summit in London, UK, which aimed to promote the "significant commercial opportunities presented by Canada's...
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Fracking May Be Polluting River With Radioactive Waste
2013-10-03 08:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Fracking may be contaminating a Pennsylvania river with radioactive waste, a Duke University study to be published this week shows. Scientists found elevated levels of radioactivity in river water at a site where treated fracking wastewater from oil and gas production sites in western Pennsylvanias Marcellus shale is released into a creek. The natural gas-rich Marcellus shale is seeing a drilling boom, part of a nationwide rush to use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, techniques to extract...
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Pressure mounts on UK's polluting water companies
2013-08-05 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Sunday, I revealed in the Observer that the most persistent and frequent polluters of England's rivers and beaches are the nation's biggest 10 biggest water companies. I wrote: The companies, who are responsible for treating waste water and delivering clean supplies, have been punished for over 1000 incidents in the last nine years but fined a total of only 3.5m. The revelations have prompted deep concern that the financial penalties being levied are far too low to change the behaviour of an...
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Colorados oil and gas boom is polluting the states air
2013-07-08 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The oil and gas industry isn`t just polluting the water in Colorado. It`s also fouling the air. The 50,000 oil and gas wells in the state are collectively pumping hundreds of tons of pollution into the air every day, making the drilling industry the state`s largest source of airborne volatile organic compounds and third-largest source of nitrogen oxides. That`s according to a report in The Denver Post: Colorado health officials are mobilizing to deal with air pollution from oil and gas industry...