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Flanagan South Oil Sands Pipeline Avoids Keystone XL Scrutiny
2013-08-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The most valuable piece of farmland in Shelby County this summer isnt growing soybeans or corn. Its holding a hardier crop -- steel pipe. On a field just north of this tiny farm town along Missouri Highway 15, about 60 miles of pipe is stacked neatly in four rows that stretch almost as far as the eye can see. In the coming months, the hundreds of pieces will be strung together as part of Enbridge Energy Co.s Flanagan South Pipeline, a new 589-mile artery that will transport heavy Canadian...
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Canadian Documents Suggest Shift on Keystone XL
2013-08-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Ever since President Obama said in June that a litmus test for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada was whether it would significantly worsen global warming, Canadian government officials have insisted it would not. They reasoned that because the pipeline would not have any major effect on rate of development of Canadas oil sands, as a State Department environmental review concluded in March, it would not significantly raise the amount of carbon emitted. But documents obtained by...
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What Is Wrong With The Keystone XL Pipeline?
2013-08-25 02:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Just Greed and Politics. Pipeline defects have been identified along a 60-mile stretch of the southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline, north of the Sabine River in Texas (Winnsboro, Texas). Sections of pipe have dents, faulty welds, and pin-holes in some sections enough to see daylight through. The installers have been digging up parts of the new southern segment of the Keystone pipeline that only recently have been installed. It seems that the existing leg of the Keystone has spilled more...
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Beyond Keystone XL: Three Controversial Pipeline Proposals
2013-08-16 18:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: While the national debate remains largely focused on President Obamas impending decision regarding the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, communities across the U.S. and Canada are grappling with the oil and gas industrys rapidly expanding pipeline network--cutting through their backyards, threatening water supplies and leaving them vulnerable to devastating spills. As production booms in Alberta, Canadas tar sands and fracking opens up vast oil and natural gas deposits around America, companies...
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Montana Oilmen Baffled by Bay Area Opposition to Keystone
2013-08-16 17:59:16| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In San Francisco, more than 1,300 miles from the proposed route of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, an agency charged with regulating air pollution from industrial plants and home heaters says the project is a threat.
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