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Calgary floods trigger an oil spill and a mass evacuation
2013-06-25 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Epic floods forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes last week in Calgary, Alberta, the tar-sands mining capital of Canada. More than seven inches of rain fell on the city over the course of 60 hours. Now the floodwaters are subsiding throughout the province, leaving in their wake an oil spill, power outages, and questions about how climate change might affect flooding. Alberta Premier Alison Redford said the crisis was like nothing that weve ever seen before, the Calgary Herald...
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Keystone Aided as Bitumen Study Finds No Greater Spill Risks
2013-06-25 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Heavy crude oil to be carried by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline poses no greater risk of a spill than other types of oil, the National Research Council said in a report. The report disputes arguments made by Keystone opponents that diluted bitumen, a tar-like substance mined in Albertas oil sands, is more corrosive than conventional crude oil and is more likely to create ruptures and oil spills in pipelines. There have been several studies to look at this over the years, but none that...
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Enbridge grapples with pipeline shutdown, weekend spill in northern Alberta
2013-06-25 13:31:10| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Enbridge Inc. is coping with a weekend spill of synthetic crude in northern Alberta as its head office remains closed due to severe flooding in the southern part of the province.
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Arkansas Times Launch Campaign to Crowdfund Oil Spill Reporting Project
2013-06-25 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: InsideClimate News this week launched a campaign to raise funds for an innovative national-local reporting collaboration with the Arkansas Times that will investigate the causes and consequences of the Exxon pipeline spill in Mayflower, Ark. on Mar. 29. The campaign is being run on ioby.org, an innovative, non-profit crowdfunding platform. "We are appealing to our readers to help crowdfund this effort and show that modest donations can have a cumulative impact to improve the public interest,"...
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Enbridge shuts all pipelines in Alberta area as precaution after Line 37 spill; rains potential cause
2013-06-23 18:30:15| Green Car Congress
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