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Researchers Find New, Inexpensive Way To Clean Water From Oil Sands Production
2015-11-25 05:11:16| pollutiononline News Articles
Researchers have developed a process to remove contaminants from oil sands wastewater using only sunlight and nanoparticles that is more effective and inexpensive than conventional treatment methods.
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Preferred Sands' Genoa Sand Offers Performance Benefits And Logistics Savings When Compared To Northern White Sand
2015-11-23 05:26:06| chemicalonline News Articles
Preferred Sands, one of North America’s leading proppant technology companies, recentlyannounced that third-party testing and real production data confirm that silica sand from its Genoa, Nebraska processing facility provides comparable crush and performance benefits to Northern White Sand, in addition to offering a lower proppant cost and logistics savings
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Institute Index: Dirty tar sands oil flows to South's refineries despite Keystone XL rejection
2015-11-14 11:50:04| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Year in which TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline carrying carbon-heavy tar sands oil from Canada to the United States was approved by the Bush administration: 2008 Year in which the first phase of the pipeline, from eastern Alberta to Nebraska and then on to Illinois, was completed: 2010 Year of completion for the third phase, known as the Gulf Coast Extension and running from Oklahoma to refineries at Port Arthur, Texas: 2014 Year in which another piece of the Gulf Coast Extension, connecting to refineries in Houston, is expected to begin operating: 2016 Date on which President Obama, citing concerns about climate change, rejected the fourth phase of the project, known as the Keystone XL, which would have essentially duplicated the initial phase between Alberta and Nebraska: 11/6/2015 Percent more greenhouse gas emissions produced from an average gallon of tar sands oil than from ... (more)
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Transition Alberta off oil sands, climate thinkers urge Trudeau
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: Alberta and its oil sands needs to be the focus of the Trudeau government's climate action if it is serious about helping limit dangerous planetary warming to two degrees this century, warned a national group of environmental thinkers. Climate Action Network Canada held a national media press conference Monday to give its recommendations to the federal government in advance of the Paris UN climate treaty talks, Nov.30 to Dec.11. Their toughest advice was focused on Alberta's crown energy jewel....
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Shell launches commercial operation of Quest carbon capture and storage in Alberta oil sands
2015-11-08 14:55:33| Green Car Congress
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