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Pepsi and Coke, Stop Using Tar Sands Oil

2013-10-24 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Environmental groups Sierra Club and ForestEthics targeted Coke and Pepsi in two full page USA Today print ads yesterday for their use of oil from tar sands in corporate car and truck fleets. The ads are part of a national campaign to eliminate the use of oil from Canadian tar sands by corporate car and truck fleets. The groups are targeting the soda industry with the "Tastes Like Tar Sands" campaign, which has generated more than 75,000 messages to soda industry executives. As the advertisements...

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Taxing tar sands, chasing Goliath

2013-10-24 14:37:59| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Climate: I could not help thinking of David versus Goliath earlier this week as I was working on a letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. I was writing about the tax that Europe applies to unconventional fossil fuels in its Fuel Quality Directive: Will it account for all the emissions during the mining and processing of such fuels or will they pretend that energy from tar sands and oil shale is the same as conventional oil? It matters a lot. Fees tacked to oil from tar...

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In Canada's Alberta province, oil sands boom is a two-edged sword

2013-10-21 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: In the Cree language, the word "athabasca" means "a place where grass is everywhere." Here in Alberta, the Athabasca River slices through forests of spruce and birch before spilling into a vast freshwater delta and Lake Athabasca. But 100 miles upstream, the boreal forest has been peeled back by enormous strip mines, where massive shovels pick up 100 tons of earth at a time and dump it into yellow trucks as big as houses. The tarry bitumen that is extracted is eventually shipped to refineries,...

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