je.st
news
Tag: sands
First-Ever Footage of Aging Tar Sands Pipelines Beneath Great Lakes
2013-10-15 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This past July, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) conducted a diving expedition to obtain footage of aging oil pipelines strung across one of the most sensitive locations in the Great Lakes, and possibly the world: the Straits of Mackinac. Footage of these pipelines has never been released to the public until now. This NWF map simulates a 3, 6 and 12 hour spill from the tar sands oil pipeline based on Enbridge spill response plans, average current speeds and worse case discharge estimates....
Williams Energy Canada nearly ready to feed plastic producers from oil sands
2013-10-07 21:44:00| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines
After two years and some $500 million, Williams Energy Canada is nearly ready to turn oil sands off-gas into a feedstock for plastic producers.
Tags: canada
feed
ready
energy
Canada's First Tar Sands Unit Train to Run in November
2013-10-04 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Western Canada's first crude-by-rail unit train terminal is set to start transporting 50,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude to the U.S. market next month, the CEO of operating company Canexus said. The terminal in Bruderheim, Alberta, which will be expanded to 100,000 bpd by the second half of next year as a second supply pipeline is connected, initially will load only "dilbit" oil, or heavy bitumen crude from Canada's oil sands region mixed with 30 percent light condensate, Gary Kubera, chief...
Oil sands controversy continues to trouble Wood Group
2013-10-04 04:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The FTSE 250 firm is a leading service provider to companies which extract oil from Western Canada's tar sands, one of the world's largest crude oil deposits, where disputes over export routes has led to widespread project delays. Wood Group said its business in Western Canada, which represents about 5pc of revenues for its dominant engineering division, has "remained subdued, as expected", in a trading update issued on Friday. Shares in Wood Group tumbled 9pc in August after the company warned...
Tags: group
oil
wood
continues
Nobel laureates press EU leaders on tar sands law
2013-10-02 18:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Twenty-one Nobel laureates including South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu have written to European Union leaders urging them to implement a law that would label oil from tar sands as dirtier than other crudes. The EU tar sands proposal has incensed the government of Canada, whose economy is highly dependent on its vast reserves of unconventional oil and it has overshadowed protracted talks on a trade treaty with the European Union. The Nobel laureates say the EU law is necessary...
Sites : [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] next »