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Why Keystone XL Flunks the Climate Test
2013-08-29 19:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In June President Obama set a climate test for his decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. He said he will not approve the pipeline if it would significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. Today the Sierra Club, Oil Change International and 13 partner groups have released a report that settles the issue unequivocally: Keystone XL would be a climate disaster. The State Department, though, tried to ignore this 181-million metric ton elephant. It argued in its environmental review...
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Keystone Seen as No Local Job Starter Along Prairie Route
2013-08-28 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: If the Keystone XL oil pipeline gets built, Rick Balcom doubts hell see many construction workers at the bar of his No. 3 saloon in Buffalo, a remote town in the northwest corner of South Dakota. Balcom, 44, knows most of the workers building the Canada-Nebraska pipeline will stay at a catered man-camp seven miles away and wont be hoisting brews under the stuffed mountain lion that adorns his bar. On their days off, theyll probably travel to places such as Deadwood and Spearfish an hour-and-a-half...
PRESS RELEASE: In a Joint Venture, Keystone Property Group Closes Deal with Mack-Cali to Acquire Pennsylvania Office and Land Portfolio
2013-08-28 21:12:00| National Real Estate Investor
Kristin Kellum A joint venture led by Keystone Property Group, a leading real estate developer, manager and investor of office and industrial properties, today announced that it has closed on its acquisition of 15 institutional-quality commercial office properties and three land parcels located in key suburban Philadelphia submarkets for approximately $233 million. read more
TransCanada Wins Right to Build Keystone XL Through Texas Family Farm
2013-08-28 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: TransCanada Corp. won a state appeals court ruling allowing it to lay the Keystone XL pipeline across a family farm in northeastern Texas, eliminating one of the last obstacles to completion of the southern leg of the Canadian tar-sands line. Julia Trigg Crawford claimed TransCanada lacked the right to use state eminent domain laws to cross her 600-acre family farm near the Oklahoma border without her permission. Crawford failed to convince the trial or appellate courts that Texas law grants condemnation...
Another Delay for Keystone XL Decision
2013-08-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: A decision on the controversial and much-delayed oil sands pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast could be pushed into 2014 as a U.S. watchdog examines whether contracts tied to the Keystone XL review process were wrongfully awarded and regulatory safeguards fully adopted. The U.S. State Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) is holding an inquiry into whether it was appropriate for the government to hire Environmental Resources Management, a private contractor selected to conduct an environmental...
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