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Confirmed: Tar Sands Toxic Liquid Waste Contaminating Local Waterways
2013-02-18 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C. yesterday to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, more evidence emerged that the public isnt getting the full story of the environmental impacts of tar sands. Media yesterday reported on an internal government memo revealing a Canadian government study on a tar sands tailings pond that found that toxic liquid ponds do leak toxic chemicals into the environment--despite repeated denials of officials. For...
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Protestors crank up calls for Obama to block tar sands pipeline
2013-02-18 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: An estimated 35,000 protestors descended on Washington yesterday to call on President Obama to block the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline once and for all. The "Forward on Climate" event was hailed as the largest climate change protest in US history by organisers and will further crank up pressure on Obama ahead of the crucial decision later this year on whether the pipeline can proceed. The protest, which was backed by a host of green NGOs, including the 350.org campaign, the Sierra...
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Tar Sands Oil Fight Moves to Maine Towns
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Portland Press Herald: Code Enforcement Officer Chris Hanson eyed the door of the selectmen's chambers every time it opened, counting each person who came into the room -- something he doesn't often have to do. The room was nine people short of capacity just before the start of the meeting Tuesday evening, when it would become the latest battleground for the Portland Pipe Line Corp. and environmentalists trying to prevent the company from carrying so-called tar sands oil through the Sebago Lake watershed. The owner...
Senate Dems' Sequester-Replacement Plan Ends Tar Sands Exemption
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: A Senate Democratic plan to replace a series of automatic spending cuts would require tar sands producers to start paying into a fund for oil spill relief. The Democratic package would end an exemption for the tar sands industry that excludes it from paying an 8-cent-per-barrel fee assessed on domestic and imported petroleum. Lawmakers are working on a package of cuts aimed at replacing $85 billion of government-wide spending reductions, known as sequestration, scheduled for March 1. For more...
Meet the Man Selling Canada's Oil Sands to Washington
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Ottawa is quietly using a well-connected Conservative MP as a direct liaison with the U.S. Congress to help build support for the Keystone XL pipeline project and a raft of other Canadian priorities in Washington. Rob Merrifield is operating on a mandate letter from Prime Minister Stephen Harper that instructs him to represent Canadian interests to the legislative branch of the U.S. government on everything from the oil-sands crude pipeline to speeding the passage of trade through heavy American...
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