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A disappointing but long-awaited decision on the Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: AT LEAST its over. President Obama rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Friday, ending an unseemly political dispute marked by activist hysteria, GOP hyperbole, presidential weakness and a general incapability of various sides to see the policy question for what it was: a mundane infrastructure approval that didnt pose a high threat to the environment but also didnt promise much economic development. The politicization of this regulatory decision, and the consequent warping of the issue...
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Canada was irrelevant in Obamas decision to reject Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Rejecting Keystone XL was not about Canada. It was about U.S. President Barack Obamas legacy and his credibility. The President has decided that global warming poses an existential threat. And so, for Mr. Obama to head to Paris next month seeking to save the planet after giving the go-ahead to an $8-billion pipeline that has come to symbolize Big Oil digging up some of the worlds most carbon-laden fossil fuel would have looked like hypocrisy. The Presidents ability to make the case to other...
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Keystone XL pipeline rejection signals US taking lead climate change fight
2015-11-07 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The symbolism was everything. Standing before a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt, the conservationist president who 104 years ago busted the Standard Oil monopoly, Barack Obama made his own tilt at an environmental legacy. The proposed 1,179-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which Obama rejected on Friday, would have borne more than 800,000 barrels of exceptionally high-carbon oil from Canadas tar sands fields in Alberta to refineries on the US gulf coast each day. It should have been a shoo-in for presidential...
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Size of Keystone XL pipeline fight overshadows impact
2015-11-07 09:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Columbus Dispatch: The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline had all the elements of a classic Washington scrap: protests, political ads and lobbyists on retainer. What was sometimes missing in the seven-year struggle, energy analysts say, was an accurate accounting of the projects impact on the environment or the economy, the twin issues that drove the debate. Environmentalists said Keystone XL, which TransCanada Corp. first applied to build in 2008, raised the risks of climate change. But a U.S. environmental review...
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Canadians 'disappointed' Keystone XL pipeline decision but not surprised
2015-11-07 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Obama administrations decision to kill the Keystone XL pipeline met with disappointment and derision though little surprise in Calgary, the boomtown-turned-bust capital of Canadas oil industry. It also induced some provincial angst as Alberta attempts to open new markets for a product that floats rough 50% of its economy. A lot of people feel that the industry is down and keeps getting kicked, said Jonathan Denis, a former Alberta attorney general and assistant energy minister. The...
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