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Australia: Flanagan lashes Greens over forestry deal
2013-05-04 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Author and well-known environmentalist Richard Flanagan has lashed out at the Tasmanian Greens' decision to support the forestry peace deal. This week four of the five state Greens MPs voted with Labor to ensure the passage of the bill to enact the deal. In an opinion piece published online, Flanagan writes that there would be many reasons for environmentalists not to vote Green at the forthcoming state election. The high-profile Tasmanian says state Greens leader Nick McKim has been misleading...
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Rowdy Keystone pipeline hearing pits workers vs greens
2013-04-18 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. construction workers, environmentalists and company executives squared off on Thursday at a raucous meeting on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but it was unclear the gathering changed any minds on the controversial project. U.S. State Department officials hosting the meeting repeatedly called for order at the hearing in Grand Island, Nebraska. It was the first since the department released a 2,000-page report on the environmental impacts of the pipeline in March and more than four years after...
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Feds overlook climate costs of Keystone, greens say
2013-04-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FuelFix: As House Republicans advance legislation to expedite the Keystone XL pipeline, environmentalists on Tuesday released a new report insisting the State Department is ignoring the full climate change damage that could result if the Obama administration approves the project. The report by Oil Change International says the pipeline would unleash 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases annually - equivalent to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars. The...
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Greens ask U.S. to delay Keystone decision after Arkansas leak
2013-04-08 22:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Environmental groups on Monday asked the Obama administration to extend the approval process of the Keystone XL pipeline, using last month's spill of heavy Canadian crude oil in Arkansas as their latest reason to delay the project. The Obama administration is deciding whether to approve the Canada-to-Nebraska leg of TransCanada Corp's proposed pipeline, which would link Canada's oil sands, the world's third richest crude oil deposit, to refineries in Texas. The State Department, which issued...
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Fracking coalition upsets both greens and drillers
2013-04-07 22:05:59| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Like a marriage the in-laws don't approve of, a new plan to strengthen standards for fracking is creating unusual divisions among environmentalists and supporters of the oil and gas industry.
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