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Tar sands oil expansion is risky
2014-04-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal Sentinel: Will Lake Superior and the Upper Great Lakes region continue to be the land of sky blue waters? Or will a vast swath of our pristine waters become a fading memory, soiled by the leaks and spills of a massive network of tar sands crude oil pipelines and maritime traffic? Expanding proposals for more pipeline capacity by Canadian pipeline company Enbridge, as well as plans to ship tar sands crude oil across Lake Superior and other Great Lakes, are astonishing in their sheer scale. For example,...
Richmond & Berkeley Oppose Fracked Oil and Tar Sands Rail Shipments
2014-03-28 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
East Bay Express: The city councils of both Berkeley and Richmond unanimously passed resolutions last night calling for tighter regulation of the shipping of crude oil by rail through the East Bay. The Berkeley resolution went further, committing Berkeley to oppose all shipment of crude oil by rail through the city until tighter regulations are in place. Information has recently come to light about crude-by-rail activity in both cities. In September, with no public announcement, the Kinder Morgan rail yard in Richmond...
Oil Sands Producers Support More Health Monitoring Canada
2014-03-26 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: Energy companies support environmental monitoring and scientific research to ensure that industrial emissions in the oilsands are not adversely affecting peoples health. Geraldine Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said Tuesday that oilsands producers understand development must occur in a manner that keeps people safe, and benefits their quality of life. The suggestions that oilsands development is affecting peoples health is troubling to us, and...
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Cenovus receives approval for Grand Rapids oil sands project; capacity to reach 180,000 bbls/d
2014-03-21 12:30:55| Green Car Congress
Koch brothers' quiet play: Oil sands
2014-03-20 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The biggest lease owner in Canada's oil sands isn't one of the well-known international oil giants. It's a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the privately owned cornerstone of the fortune of conservative Koch brothers Charles and David. The Koch Industries subsidiary holds leases on 1.1 million acres -- an area nearly the size of Delaware -- in the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada, according to an activist group that studied Alberta provincial records. The Washington Post confirmed the group's...
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