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State Dept. gives Obama political cover to OK Keystone XL pipeline looming over his legacy
2014-02-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is running out of reasons to say no to Keystone XL, the proposed oil pipeline that's long been looming over his environmental legacy. Five years after the pipeline's backers first asked the Obama administration for approval, the project remains in limbo, stuck in a complex regulatory process that has enabled Obama to put off what will inevitably be a politically explosive decision. But the release Friday of a long-awaited government report removes a major excuse for delay,...
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Report says Keystone pipeline likely would not worsen climate change
2014-02-01 13:11:08| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The State Department concluded in its final environmental assessment issued Friday that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would be unlikely to alter global greenhouse gas emissions, but officials cautioned that they were still weighing whether or not the project would meet the test of President Barack Obama's broader climate strategy.
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Repsol sells stake in Peru pipeline to Enagas
2014-02-01 04:57:01| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Spanish energy company Repsol says it has agreed to sell its 10 percent stake in a gas pipeline in southern Peru to Spain's Enagas SA for $219 million.
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Pipeline Opponents Hopes Now Rest Largely on Kerry
2014-02-01 03:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Environmental activists have not been shy in their fight against the Keystone XL pipeline. They have wrapped a giant pipeline around the White House fence, marched on Washington in the frigid cold, been arrested, and followed President Obama around the country to press their concerns while raising millions of dollars for the cause. So on Friday, they largely dismissed the findings of a long-awaited State Department review that concluded the project - which would send 830,000 barrels of oil from...
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State Dept. Admits Keystone XL Pipeline Climate Impact
2014-02-01 02:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: In its final environmental review of TransCanada`s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the U.S. State Department today acknowledges for the first time that the pipeline could "significantly impact" climate change. Unlike its previous reviews of the pipeline, the State Department`s new Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement does not claim that the environmental impacts of the pipeline would be minimal. Instead, the State Department FEIS says, "The total direct and indirect emissions associated...
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