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Canadian environment groups, natives challenge Enbridge pipeline
2014-07-12 02:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A coalition of environmental groups launched a second legal challenge against Enbridge Inc's Northern Gateway crude oil pipeline on Friday, asking a Canadian court to quash federal approval that they say was based on a flawed report. The same group filed a lawsuit in January over a preliminary approval by the Joint Review Panel, which found the C$7.9 billion ($7.36 billion) project posed little risk to the environment provided Enbridge complied with 209 conditions. The Canadian government green...
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Rupture of Aging Tar Sands Pipeline Beneath Great Lakes Would Devastate People, Planet and Economy
2014-07-11 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Because the strong currents in the Straits of Mackinac reverse direction every few days, a rupture of the oil pipeline beneath the channel would quickly contaminate shorelines miles away in both lakes Michigan and Huron, according to a new University of Michigan (U-M) study commissioned by the National Wildlife Federation. In one scenario examined in the study and accompanying animations, oil from a hypothetical pipeline break reached Mackinac Island and Round Island after 12 hours and Bois Blanc...
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North Dakota Pipeline Spill Cleanup May Take Weeks
2014-07-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A pipeline has leaked 1 million gallons of oil drilling saltwater into the ground at a North Dakota Indian reservation, and some of the byproduct ended up in a bay that feeds the lake that provides the reservation's drinking water, company and tribal officials said. Cleanup at the Fort Berthold reservation site continued Thursday, two days after the leak was discovered. It was expected to last for weeks, said Miranda Jones, the vice president of environmental safety and regulatory at Houston-based...
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Activists Vow to Fight Oil Pipeline That Would Cross Iowa
2014-07-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: Environmental activists vowed Thursday to fight plans for a proposed 1,100-mile crude oil pipeline that would slice diagonally through the heart of Iowa, but the state's politicians are withholding judgment for now. Former state legislator Ed Fallon of Des Moines, who is leading about 40 people on a transcontinental march across the United States to bring attention to climate change, said he will emphatically oppose plans for the proposed Bakken pipeline, which would cut across 17 counties from...
Texas company proposes oil pipeline through Iowa
2014-07-10 17:14:22| Energy - Topix.net
The Des Moines Register says the pipeline route in Iowa would begin in Lyon County and slice southeast through 15 other counties and exit Iowa at Lee County.
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