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U.S. review gives boost to Keystone oil pipeline
2013-03-01 18:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Keystone XL oil pipeline got a boost on Friday when the State Department said the project would not likely change the rate at which Canada's oil sands are developed, discounting warnings from environmentalists that it would lead to a spike in greenhouse gas emissions. The report is far from the last word on Keystone. The environmental assessment must be finalized after the public comment. Federal agencies will then have 90 days to work with the State Department to determine whether the pipeline...
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Canada: Keystone XL focus shifts to climate change, oil lobby says
2013-03-01 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Post: A delegation of oil sands CEOs couldnt get a clear reading in Washington this week over whether Barack Obamas renewed focus on climate change means more uncertainty for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, an executive with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said Thursday. The climate discussion, the carbon discussion, is clearly back as being a priority issue The Canadian lobby group and a handful of Canadian oil patch leaders met with members of Congress, the administration...
Keystone halt would send strong signal: EU climate chief
2013-02-28 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Union's top climate change official said on Thursday that if the Obama administration rejects the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, it would send a strong message that the United States is serious about combating climate change. "That would be an extremely strong signal for the Obama administration," Connie Hedegaard, the EU Commissioner for Climate Action, told reporters in a briefing in Washington. Hedegaard has been visiting lawmakers, administration and World Bank officials as...
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TransCanada Confident Keystone XL Will Be Approved by Summer -Executive
2013-02-28 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dow Jones: TransCanada Corp. (TRP) still fully expects to receive approval for its controversial cross-border Keystone XL pipeline expansion within the next several months, a company executive said Thursday. TransCanada, which has been waiting for White House approval for the 830,000 barrel-a-day pipeline expansion for years, expects to receive the necessary permit "by the first half of 2013," Paul Miller, TransCanada's senior vice president in charge of oil pipelines, said on the sidelines of the Platts...
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EU climate chief: Obama would send strong signal by nixing Keystone
2013-02-28 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: The European Unions climate minister said Thursday that White House rejection of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline would be an extremely strong signal of the Obama administrations second-term intent to confront global warming. If you had a U.S. administration that would avoid doing something that they could do, with the argument that in the time we are living in, with the climate change we are faced with, we should not do everything we can do, then I think it would be a very, very...
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