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Tribal Activists Arrested Trying to Block Tar Sands 'Megaload' on Idaho Highway
2013-08-07 07:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Police arrested 19 members of the Nez Perce Tribe on Tuesday on suspicion of disorderly conduct for refusing to break a human chain blocking a highway in Idaho in protest against a 322-ton load of equipment bound for the tar sands of Alberta, Canada. The blockade by more than 250 mostly Native American protesters halted travel of a so-called megaload for two hours on a scenic roadway at the front lines of an ideological struggle over North American oil and gas development and its impact on the environment,...
Canada: Albertas oil sands bring jobs, services and despair
2013-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: First the bugs began to disappear, says Eriel Deranger, spokesperson for Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. By Derangers account, her small community of Fort Chipewyan is increasingly affected by the expansion of the worlds third largest crude oil deposit, the Athabasca tar sands of Alberta, Canada. In the last decade, the town of Fort Chipewyan in northeastern Alberta has witnessed its local caribou herds threatened with extinction, a decline in the numbers of migratory birds, and elevated...
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Tar Sands Stock Tanks After Direct Action in Utah
2013-08-05 20:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If you are thinking about investing in tar sands oil in Utahthink again. US Oil Sands stock price fell further down the road to failure when a group of nonviolent activists gathered last week at the site of the first proposed tar sands mine in the country. Dozens of people peacefully overtook the operations, effectively shutting down for the entire day road construction of the Seep Ridge Road expansion project and work at the mine in Utahs Book Cliffs. According to KCSG Television, the companys...
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With Tar Sands Development, Growing Concern on Water Use
2013-08-05 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Opposition to the mining of Albertas tar sands and the Keystone and Gateway pipelines that would carry their oil to the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean has largely been focused on the projects greenhouse gas emissions and threats to pristine environments along the pipeline rights-of-way. But another serious issue is coming to the fore the massive amounts of freshwater being used by the industry. In 2011, companies mining the tar sands siphoned approximately 370 million cubic meters of water...
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Canadian Regulators Investigate Mysterious Tar Sands Spills
2013-07-31 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Government regulators in Canada are investigating a series of mysterious oil spills around tar sands operations in Alberta. Thick oil is gurgling up unexpectedly from the ground instead of flowing through the wells that were built to collect it. The spills are raising questions about a technology that's rapidly expanding to extract fossil fuels that could ultimately end up in the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The extent of the spills is small, compared with the huge open pits and slag...
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