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What's next in the ongoing Keystone XL saga?
2013-04-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: With the public comment period for the State Department's draft environmental statement drawing to a close, debate over the approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline has started heating up again, not least because of two recent spills involving Canadian crude oil. Although the Obama administration seems to be leaning toward approving the pipeline, according to experts, navigating the political climate surrounding the issue promises to be difficult, especially with the president's comments...
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Oil Spill Spotlights Keystone XL Issue: Is Canadian Crude Worse?
2013-04-05 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: David Hatfield, an Arkansas wildlife photographer and minister, rose before dawn on Monday and headed to Lake Conway. Even though he had lived nearby for 25 years, Hatfield never knew of the threat now oozing near this 6,700-acre habitat 25 miles north of Little Rock, the largest game and wildlife commission reservoir in the United States. "It surprised me that we had a pipeline here," he said. But ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline has been buried here for more than six decades, quietly propelling...
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Groups Ask State Dept for 120-Day Comment Period on Keystone Pipeline
2013-04-04 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The Sierra Club and other environmental groups have asked the State Department to extend until early summer the looming deadline for public comments about the agency's controversial draft environmental impact statement on the Keystone XL pipeline. Unless the State Department agrees to allow more time for comments on the impact statement, which exceeds 3,500 pages and was released on March 1, the groups will be hard pressed to fully present their "significant concerns," representatives of 15 organizations...
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Oil spills and Keystone
2013-04-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Baltimore Sun: If Americans needed a reminder of the serious environmental risks posed by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, they got it last week with the oil spill in Mayflower, a suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas. More than 12,000 barrels of crude spilled into the town like a black river, coating lawns and forcing evacuations. It's still not certain what caused a leak from the ExxonMobil pipeline that carries Canadian crude oil from Illinois to the Texas Gulf Coast. But what is clear is that such pipeline spills...
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The Keystone XL Pipeline and its politics, explained
2013-04-04 14:36:34| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: With the controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline extension surfacing yet again - opponents will hold a rally Wednesday night in San Francisco`s Pacific Heights neighborhood, outside a fundraiser President Obama is headlining--we thought we`d clarify a few points about the contentious project. (For more details, read Steven Mufson`s new e-book, "Keystone XL: Down the Line.") What is the Keystone XL pipeline? The Keystone XL pipeline extension is a 1,700-mile project that would transport 800,000...
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