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US State Department says Keystone XL won't impact global warming
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline has cleared a significant political hurdle in the United States after a State Department assessment concluded the project would not contribute to the warming of the planet. Assistant Secretary of State Kerri-Ann Jones cautioned that the department's report, released late Friday, does not provide a recommendation on the project. But activists who oppose the pipeline condemned the work as a "botch job" that unduly minimizes the environmental impacts,...
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State Dept. Keystone report plays down climate fears
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: The State Departments long-awaited environmental report on the Keystone XL pipeline leaves President Barack Obama with no real scientific reason to reject the nations most fiercely debated energy project. The sprawling 2,000-page report, released late Friday afternoon, doesnt issue a clear yea or nay on a sprawling section of pipeline that would traverse from western Canada to Oklahoma. But the reports key takeaways including a conclusion that the project would have no significant impacts...
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New Obama admin. report on Keystone XL pipeline has enviros worried
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: On Friday afternoon, the State Department released a draft of its much-anticipated new analysis of the environmental impact of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Although the report makes no firm statement one way or the other about whether the controversial pipeline from Canada to Texas should be approved, some of its conclusions have enviros worried that a greenlight is inevitable. The administration has spent more than two years considering whether to approve the 1,600-mile pipeline that would...
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Keystone XL effect on environment seen as minimal, U.S. says
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: A long-awaited State Department review of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline released Friday concludes that he project would have minimal impact on the environment, increasing the chances it could be approved in the coming months. The State Department underscored that the study, a supplemental environmental impact statement, is a draft and that it does not offer recommendations for action on the $7-billion project, which would bring petroleum from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries...
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State Dept: Build the Keystone pipeline or not, the oil sands crude will flow
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: The State Department issued its long-awaited supplementary environmental impact assessment (SEIS) this afternoon on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship up to 830,000 barrels a day of Canadian oil sands crude to the U.S. The full report is some 2,000 pages long--and was released at the very end of the week, thanks very much, State Department--but you can boil it down to one sentence: Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed Project, remains unlikely...
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