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Canadian Neil Young on Oil Sands: 'Fort McMurray Looks Like Hiroshima'
2013-09-11 07:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Canadian rocker Neil Young is wading into the heated debate over the oil sands and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, warning of the health effects on First Nations peoples and the wasteland that is Fort McMurray. Mr. Young, one of Canada's best-known singer-songwriters since the 1960s, told an event in Washington yesterday that he recently travelled to Alberta, where "much of the oil comes from, much of the oil that we're using here, which they call ethical oil because it's not from Saudi Arabia...
CT Offshore completes half of cable installation at West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm
2013-09-05 01:00:00| Power Technology
CT Offshore has completed the installation of 54 of the 108 cables on the 389MW West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm, which will feature 108 Siemens 3.6MW wind turbine generators in the East Irish Sea, located around 14km from the nearest coast on
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Green groups: Keystone XL to increase tar sands production by 36 per cent
2013-08-30 12:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The Keystone XL pipeline would boost oil production from Canadian tar sands by at least 36 per cent leading to an inevitable increase in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a major new report from a coalition of US green NGOs. The group of more than a dozen organisations, including the Sierra Club, 350.org, and Oil Change International, released the report yesterday in response to President Obama's recent pledge that he would only approve the project if it "does not significantly exacerbate...
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Report: Keystone XL Will Drive Oil Sands Growth, Boost Emissions
2013-08-30 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Keystone XL pipeline will expand oil sands production in Canada by 36 percent, and therefore, ramp up carbon emissions, according to a report released Thursday by environmental groups. The groups said the report gives President Obama all of the information he needs to reject Keystone, as the president said in June hed oppose the Canada-to-Texas pipeline if it significantly exacerbates carbon pollution. The answer to the presidents Keystone XL climate challenge is clear: the Keystone...
CO2 Solutions Completes First Alberta Oil Sands Project Milestones
2013-08-30 03:46:14| pollutiononline News Articles
CO2Solutions Inc. (TSX-V: CST), an innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology, today announced that it has met and exceeded the first two technical performance milestones for its Alberta Oil Sands project
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