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US admits Keystone impact, says this is only option
2013-03-01 22:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would create "numerous" and "substantial" impacts on the environment, the State Department said Friday in a draft environmental impact statement. But the project is a better bet than any of the alternatives, it said in essentially clearing the project to go ahead. The report concluded that the Canadian synthetic crude oil the pipeline is slated to transport into the U.S. produces 17 percent more greenhouse gases than natural crude oil already...
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Keystone XL pipeline would have little impact on climate change, State Department analysis says
2013-03-01 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting that the project would have little impact on climate change. Canadas oil sands will be developed even if President Obama denies a permit to the pipeline connecting the region to Gulf Coast refineries, the analysis said. Such a move also would not alter U.S. oil consumption, the report added. The lengthy assessment did not give environmentalists the answer they had...
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U.S. Report Sees No Environmental Bar to Keystone Pipeline
2013-03-01 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The State Department issued a revised environmental impact statement for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline on Friday that makes no recommendation about whether the project should be built but presents no conclusive environmental reason it should not be. The 2,000-page document also makes no statement on whether the pipeline is in the United States economic and energy interests, a determination to be made later this year by President Obama. But it will certainly add a new element to the already...
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Keystone XL clears big hurdle, gets thumbs-up from State Dept. report
2013-03-01 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The U.S. State Department just released a draft environmental impact statement for the Keystone XL pipeline, and it`s not what climate activists have been hoping for. As The New York Times puts it, the report "makes no recommendation about whether the project should be built but presents no conclusive environmental reason it should not be." According to The Washington Post, the report "suggest[s] that blocking the project would not have a significant impact on either the future development of...
A defense of Keystone protesters from the dark heart of the MSM
2013-03-01 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When I wrote my essay on the virtues of being unreasonable on Keystone XL, I implied, unfairly, that TIME journalist Mike Grunwald was among the ranks of Very Serious People who think anti-Keystone activism is misguided. He protested, and I promised that if he wrote on the subject I would do a special post on it. Well, Grunwald has written a column about Keystone XL and it is a doozy, just about the best thing I`ve ever read on the subject in a mainstream publication. Unlike the Monday morning...
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