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The U.S. Army Keeps Going Solar, as New Installation at White Sands is Biggest Yet
2013-02-06 15:30:43| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
The U.S. military has plans to quadruple its renewable energy spending by 2025 to a whopping $1.8 billion. It's most recent installation is a 43-acre solar panel field in New Mexico.
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Oklahoma Resident Locks Herself to Equipment to Protest Tar Sands Pipeline
2013-02-04 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Early this morning, Norman, Oklahoma resident Elizabeth Leja locked her neck to equipment used in constructing the Keystone XL pipeline. Citing concerns for Oklahomas waterways and their importance for the health of future generations, her actions have halted construction at the site on Highway 62, just North of the North Canadian River, for the day. The Gulf Coast Project is the Southern segment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion project by multinational TransCanada. It is slated...
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Why Canada's Oil Sands Industry Wants the CO2 Tax That Harper Hates
2013-02-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vilified political opponents who support a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions. The oil-sands industry, Canadas fastest growing CO2 polluter, says hes out of step. The contradiction of an industry seeking a new tax on itself has emerged in energy-rich Canada because producers are concerned the crude they process from tar-like sands will be barred from foreign markets for releasing more carbon in its production than competing fossil fuels. Oil companies...
Pressure builds for Obama to link oil sands pipelines to climate change
2013-02-04 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: President Obama hasn't publicly drawn a connection between climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline, but new pressure is building on him and other officials to connect those dots. Protests are springing up from Maine to Washington, D.C., to Oklahoma urging leaders to stop the Keystone XL and other oil sands import projects on climate change grounds. The Texas-bound Keystone XL is the biggest of many projects being proposed to connect Canada's oil sands to U.S. refineries and export ports. Protesters...
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Imperial Oil ups costs of Kearl oil sands initial development 18% to $12.9B
2013-02-03 15:30:14| Green Car Congress
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