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Arkansas Oil Spill Raises Scrutiny of Pipeline Network
2013-04-01 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: An oil spill that fouled an Arkansas town is raising questions about the U.S. pipeline network and the safety of importing Canadian heavy crude, as President Barack Obama weighs whether to approve the Keystone XL project. Environmental groups said the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) pipe on March 29 in Mayflower, Arkansas, shows why Obama should reject Keystone, which would be a major new conduit between the U.S. and Canada for a type of fuel critics say is more corrosive than more conventional...
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Exxon Mobil Pipeline Rupture and Train Derailment Oil Spill, Exemplifies Concerns of Keystone XL
2013-03-31 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Friday, an Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptured spilling an estimated 84,000 gallons of heavy crude oil from the Canadian tar sands region, causing the evacuation of 22 homes in the small town of Mayflower, Ark., about 20 miles north of Little Rock. According to Exxon, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers the incident a "major spill." The 20-inch Pegasus pipeline runs 858 miles from Patoka, Ill. to Nederland, Texas. According to a Saturday press release from Exxon, 189,000 gallons of...
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Today's oil prices drop as North Sea pipeline restarts; Chinese data caps decline
2013-03-08 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Oil prices steadied today as a key North Sea pipeline recommenced operations and after a reported rise in Chinese exports.
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...
A.F.L.-C.I.O. Backs Keystone Oil Pipeline, if Indirectly
2013-02-28 02:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The A.F.L.-C.I.O., the nations largest federation of unions, has issued an apparent endorsement of the Keystone XL oil pipeline apparent because it enthusiastically called for expanding the nations pipeline system, without specifically mentioning Keystone. And while some union leaders said the federations stance stopped short of an official endorsement, the nations building trades unions eager for the thousands of jobs the pipeline would create issued a statement saying the A.F.L.-C.I.O.s...
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