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Academics warn Canada against further tar sands production
2013-05-08 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Canadian government's promotion of the tar sands industry is setting the world on a course of catastrophic climate change, a group of climate scientists and economists have warned. In a letter made available to the Guardian, the academics urged Canada's natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, to consider the consequences of his support for expanding Alberta's tar sands production. Oliver has in recent months emerged as the main proponent for the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington and other...
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Public Can Still Comment on Controversial Oil Sands Pipeline to Lake Superior
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Detroit Free Press: he U.S. State Department has extended the public comment period on a controversial proposal to expand a Canadian tar sands oil pipeline to the western shores of Lake Superior. Respondents now have until midnight Monday to weigh in on Canadian oil transport giant Enbridge Energys plan to expand its Line 67 or Alberta Clipper pipeline. The comment period was originally slated to conclude April 29. As reported in the Free Press April 14, Enbridge is seeking federal approval to nearly double the...
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Ottawa Strikes Back at Al Gore's Remarks on Oil Sands as 'Open Sewer'
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver will make the Harper government's case for the Alberta oil sands in Europe this week. But before he can begin, he finds himself contending with inconveniently timed comments from Al Gore about Canada's climate-change record. Mr. Oliver is none too happy about it. "Well, he's off the mark," Mr. Oliver said in an interview Sunday, accusing the outspoken climate-change activist and former U.S. vice-president of making "wildly inaccurate and exaggerated comments."...
Maine Committee Eyes Moratorium on Tar Sands Oil
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Journal: A bill creating a two-year moratorium on the transportation of "tar sands" oil in Maine pit environmental groups against those who say the ban would have far-reaching negative effects on the economy during testimony before the Legislature`s Environment and Natural Resources Committee on Monday. The bill, LD 1363, calls for a legislative resolve setting the moratorium while directing the state`s Department of Environmental Protection to study the potential impacts of moving oil sands, known by...
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Canada: Debate on Kinder Morgan Tar Sands Pipeline Takes Center Stage in B.C. Election
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rabble: For a climate organizer, the ongoing British Columbia election campaign has been a rare treat. For the first time in a very long time, climate change and fossil fuels are taking centre stage in an election campaign. The past two federal elections have been marked more by the absence of discussion of climate change than its presence. Even in the most recent U.S. federal election, climate only broke into the campaign thanks to the force of a climate supercharged hurricane crashing into New York...
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