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Nebraska trial could delay Keystone XL pipeline
2013-08-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: While environmentalists, energy executives and elected officials across North America await the State Departments critical decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, a little-noticed trial scheduled for next month in Nebraska could spell problems for the $5.3 billion project. Despite two attempts by Nebraskas attorney general to have the case thrown out, Lancaster County District Court Judge Stephanie Stacy has set a Sept. 27 trial date for arguments in a lawsuit that contends the state legislature...
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Keystone pipeline decision pivotal for Obama
2013-08-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star Tribune: In his speech on climate in June, President Obama laid out his criteria for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline: "Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interest. And our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. The net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project is allowed to go forward.'...
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Little-Known Pipeline Nearly as Big as Keystone Could Win Race to Gulf
2013-08-04 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A little-known pipeline could win the race to ship heavy Canadian crude oil from the Midwest to the U.S. Gulf Coast if it comes online as planned in 2015. Called the Eastern Gulf Crude Access Pipeline Project, the 774-mile line would be capable of carrying almost as much oil as the Keystone XL, the controversial pipeline mired in its fifth year of federal review. The Eastern Gulf would run from Patoka, Ill. to St. James, La., carrying oil from North Dakota's Bakken formation as well as Canadian...
Canada: New TransCanada Pipeline Plan Dwarfs Keystone XL
2013-08-02 22:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DeSmog Canada: TransCanada Corporation announced yesterday they will proceed with plans to create a pipeline capable of shipping 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil and tar sands bitumen from western Canada to refineries and ports in Quebec and New Brunswick. Called "Energy East", this west-to-east pipeline would dwarf the oil delivery capacity of TransCanada`s proposed Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. (830,000 bpd). The premiers of Alberta and New Brunswick declared Energy East a "nation building" pipeline....
Canada's Harper insists Keystone XL is important for jobs
2013-08-02 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper contradicted on Friday U.S. President Barack Obama's dismissal of the job-creation potential of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, saying the project is important both for jobs and for energy security. Asked about remarks made by Obama in an interview with the New York Times last Saturday and then repeated this week in a speech, Harper told reporters in Quebec City that Canada's perspective was well-known by everyone in Washington. "That is that first...
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