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ExxonMobil Sued Over Arkansas Pipeline Oil Spill
2013-06-15 04:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The United States and the State of Arkansas Thursday filed a joint enforcement action against ExxonMobil Pipeline Company and Mobil Pipe Line Company in federal district court in Little Rock. The civil complaint addresses ExxonMobil's illegal discharge of heavy crude oil from a 20-inch-diameter interstate pipeline, known as the Pegasus Pipeline, that ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, on March 29. A segment of the Pegasus Pipeline ruptured in a residential neighborhood of Mayflower, a town of...
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British Columbia Opposes Planned Oil Sands Pipeline
2013-06-01 02:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A pipeline for exporting oil sands bitumen to Asia-bound tankers was dealt a severe blow on Friday when the province of British Columbia urged a federal review panel to reject the $6 billion plan. The proposal to build the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and its port is effectively Alberta's backup plan in case the Obama administration turns down the Keystone XL, a pipeline that would link the oil sands with American refineries on the Gulf Coast. Several of the concerns raised by British Columbia...
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Pipeline Owner Asks Vermont to Reconsider Tar Sands Oil Ruling
2013-05-16 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The owner of a crude oil pipeline that runs between Maine and Montreal is asking Vermont environmental regulators to reconsider a ruling that would require a new review under the state's land-use planning law if the company seeks to move Canadian tar sands oil to Portland for possible shipment to markets across the world. In its motion to reconsider, the Portland-Montreal Pipeline Corp. Pipeline said the coordinator of the District 7 Environmental Commission, who issued the ruling last month,...
Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict
2013-05-13 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes. But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a political solution to an increasingly intractable conflict, its underlying causes in a fatal convergence of energy, climate and economic factors remain little understood. The UN high commissioner for human rights has offered a conservative under-estimate of the...
Public Can Still Comment on Controversial Oil Sands Pipeline to Lake Superior
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Detroit Free Press: he U.S. State Department has extended the public comment period on a controversial proposal to expand a Canadian tar sands oil pipeline to the western shores of Lake Superior. Respondents now have until midnight Monday to weigh in on Canadian oil transport giant Enbridge Energys plan to expand its Line 67 or Alberta Clipper pipeline. The comment period was originally slated to conclude April 29. As reported in the Free Press April 14, Enbridge is seeking federal approval to nearly double the...
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