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Ottawa pitches the oil sands as green
2013-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Relying on Canadian crude imports is the best choice for the United States - not just because it's reliable and secure but because of Canada's unmatched environmental record, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Tuesday. Adding green to the attributes of Alberta's oil sands is the latest twist in Ottawa's concerted effort to push for U.S. approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline designed to funnel more than 800,000 barrels a day of Canadian crude to Texas Gulf oil refineries next...
Las Vegas Sands violated bribery law
2013-03-03 13:10:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Casino operator Las Vegas Sands says that it probably violated a US law that prohibits bribing foreign officials.
Vermont delegation calls for strict environmental review of tar sands
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Burlington Free Press: All three members of Vermonts Congressional delegation are asking the federal government to require a strict environmental review should the owner of a New England oil pipeline seek to transport Canadian tar sands oil through its infrastructure in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The request was made in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry dated Feb. 26 and signed by 18 members of Congress, including U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., U.S. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch,...
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State Dept: Build the Keystone pipeline or not, the oil sands crude will flow
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: The State Department issued its long-awaited supplementary environmental impact assessment (SEIS) this afternoon on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship up to 830,000 barrels a day of Canadian oil sands crude to the U.S. The full report is some 2,000 pages long--and was released at the very end of the week, thanks very much, State Department--but you can boil it down to one sentence: Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed Project, remains unlikely...
Draft Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline Devastatingly Cynical
2013-03-01 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The U.S. State Department late Friday released a draft environmental impact assessment of a contentious pipeline project that simultaneously acknowledged the dangers posed by climate change while also noting the project would "not likely result in significant adverse environmental effects". Scientists and advocates have reacted with significant alarm, warning that the new report, officially a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), is merely recycling deeply flawed conclusions offered...
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