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Killing The Keystone Pipeline Won't Stop The Oil Sands Being Mined
2013-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: I have to admit that I dont really understand one of the arguments being used against the Keystone pipeline project. Several of the arguments I do understand and simply disagree with, but one of them I just dont get in some important manner. Thats the one that if the pipeline isnt built then the oil in the tar sands wont be extracted and thus climate change is be less likely. This just doesnt ring true for me. Mark Perry provides one little chart to show why: As the Wall Street Journal pouts...
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The FirstAnd LastHearing on Keystone XL Environmental Impact
2013-04-19 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: State Department officials trekked to Grand Island, Nebraska today to hear statements from ranchers, geologists, construction workers, oil executives, and a colorful cast of other characters in the only public hearing on the Department`s latest Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL pipeline. Speakers for and against the pipeline began lining up at 7 a.m. amid frigid cold and snow for a chance to get three minutes on the soapbox at the Heartland Events Center. There was the blustering,...
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Keystone Pipeline Challenge Rejected by Top Texas Court
2013-04-19 15:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: TransCanada Corp. (TRP)s power to condemn land as a common carrier wont be reviewed by the Texas Supreme Court in one of four state-court challenges against the Keystone XL pipeline, which will carry Canadian tar-sands oil to the Texas coast. The Texas Supreme Court today refused to hear a challenge by Rhinoceros Ventures Group Inc., whose property lies near the industry refinery hub at Beaumont, Texas. The court denied the petition without comment. The landowners had urged the court to use...
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Keystone XL Pipeline All Risk, No Reward State Dept. Told
2013-04-19 09:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Opponents of TransCanada`s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline packed a State Department public hearing on its latest environmental analysis of the pipeline to warn that it is all risk for the United States, with no reward. More than 1,000 pipeline opponents -- far outnumbering supporters -- packed a hearing room in Grand Island Wednesday to deliver that message to the State Department officials. Chair of the new anti-pipeline group "All Risk, No Reward" Coalition, Nebraska landowner Randy Thompson,...
Pipelines safe, Keystone XL meeting told
2013-04-19 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Pipelines are the safest way to transport oil in the United States, a former U.S pipeline regulator said at a Nebraska meeting on the Keystone XL pipeline. The U.S. State Department requested public opinion on a draft assessment of the planned cross-border pipeline. Critics of the project say Canadian crude oil, the type designated for Keystone XL, may be more corrosive and therefore more likely to cause a pipeline spill. A so-called tar sands oil spill in Michigan in 2010 was the costliest...
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