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Canada's Energy Sector Taps Bitumen, Sticky Rival to Oil Sands
2013-07-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pilot projects in an as-yet undeveloped oilfield could remake Canada's energy map, if producers can successfully wrest a sludgy, tarry substance called bitumen from porous rock in remote northern Alberta. The bitumen in the caverns and cracks of the dolomite and limestone rock is a vast resource, estimated by Alberta regulators to hold close to 500 billion barrels of oil, or more than the combined recoverable oil reserves of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, the world's top two oil states. The bitumen,...
Enbridges tar sands pipelines
2013-07-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: CURWOOD: In his recent address on climate change, President Obama pledged not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline if it would add significantly to global warming. Many Keystone opponents heard that as a death-knell for the project, but the overall climate impact of the pipeline will depend on whether the diluted bitumen, dilbit, from the Canadian Tar Sands would be able to get to the market anyway. And there may be another way. According to the online publication InsideClimateNews, the Enbridge Company...
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Bay Area Battles Chevrons Dangerous Tar Sands Refinery
2013-07-03 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: 350BayArea.org, joined by local groups and unions, last week announced plans for a massive protest Aug. 3 at California`s Chevron Richmond oil refinery. Smoke from the Chevron refinery explosion spreads across the bay. Photo by Drew Dellinger, a bay area resident. The largest greenhouse gas polluter in the state, Chevron, along with the other four Bay Area refineries, is already refining tar sands oil from Canada, brought into the area by rail. Chevron is among industry giants pressing for...
Canada: Oil Sands Leak: 'Bitumen Emulsion' Released on Alberta Weapons Range
2013-06-28 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Oilsands mixed with water has leaked in northeastern Alberta. The Alberta Energy Regulator says Canadian Natural Resources Limited reported Monday that bitumen emulsion has been released on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. The regulator put out a news release about it on Thursday. Regulator spokesman Bob Curran says it's not clear how much has leaked or what caused the release from CNRL's high-pressure cyclic steam project. Curran says the oilsands mixture has affected a nearby slough....
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Obama Has a Plan for Climate, What If It Involves Tar Sands?
2013-06-26 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: "You see, I've got this plan..." ... On a sweltering day in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama sweated as he laid out his new plan to combat climate change. In addition to the mandatory cuts in CO2 pollution from coal-fired power plants and the efforts to protect the country from the ravages of climate change highlighted by my colleague Mark Fischetti, Obama also found time to mention a little pipeline that would connect the tar sands in Alberta, Canada with refineries along the Gulf Coast...
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