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Keystone XL: Oil Sands Health Concerns Rise Downstream Of Expanding Extraction

2013-04-27 08:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: Raymond Ladouceur remembers when he could dip a cup into the Athabasca River for a drink. He remembers when the trout and muskrats were plentiful -- and when his community was healthy. Despite recent heart surgery, Ladouceur, 72, still fishes and traps, as he has his whole life at Big Point in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. He snared his first fox at age 6 and recalled waddling home with the animal around his neck, its body dragging between his legs. But times have changed, said Ladouceur, an elder...

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Spilled tar sands oil could be creeping toward the Arkansas River

2013-04-24 13:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Rocker Neil Young wanted to see for himself the damage from ExxonMobil`s ruptured Pegasus oil pipeline, which recently spewed reeking, black goo into small-town Mayflower, Ark. So Young, a stalwart environmentalist, drove his revamped, super fuel-efficient hybrid 1959 Lincoln Continental into Mayflower on Monday, unannounced. A few people snapped pictures with Young (local blogger Shelli Russell bumped into a telephone pole while chasing him down). But regardless of how cool his car is, its unlikely...

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EPA on Keystone XL: Significant Climate Impacts from Tar Sands Pipeline

2013-04-24 02:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: In a draft assessment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, consultants for the U.S. State Department judged that building it would have no significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Why? Because the analysts assumed the tar sands oil would find a way out with or without the new pipeline. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not agree. Keystone XL's ability to carry an additional 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day is vital to expanded production of the tarry crude in Alberta....

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Tar Sands Pipelines Emerge as Central Issue in B.C. Election

2013-04-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Vancouver Sun: B.C. New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix's criticism Monday of Kinder Morgan's proposed $5.4-billion oil pipeline marks the latest twist in an election campaign that, for the first time in B.C.'s modern history, has the oil-and-gas industry emerging as a centrepiece issue. Dix, already opposed to Enbridge's $6.5-billion pipeline to Kitimat, stopped just short of condemning the Kinder Morgan plan to twin its existing line from Alberta to Burnaby. He has been under considerable pressure from...

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