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Canada: Northern Gateway Pipeline Opposition Groups Threaten 'Direct Action'
2013-12-23 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Opponents of Northern Gateway said Friday that the war against the pipeline will now be waged against the federal government, which will decide the project's fate after a federal review panel recommended approval. A coalition of environmental groups gathered in Vancouver the day after the National Energy Board released its report and recommendations, to say that Calgary-based Enbridge may have had the support of the panel, but not the public. Gerald Amos, chairman of the Friends of Wild Salmon...
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Alberta Premier Redford Says Keystone XL Pipeline Prospects Improving
2013-12-23 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Alberta Premier Alison Redford says that heading into 2014, she sees encouraging political signs in relation to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States, and North Americans are realizing that pipelines are a better means of shipping crude than rail. In a year-end interview at her Calgary office, the Premier cited a broader recognition of the safety and environmental risks of rail, which has become the key transport alternative as Alberta oil sands and U.S. light oil production...
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Fracking Pipeline Stirs Controversy in Bluegrass State
2013-12-22 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The land agent first came knocking on Vivian and Dean Houses door in July. They sat on the patio of the retired couples 85-acre farm in this Central Kentucky town and chatted. The guy was friendly, the kind of guy Dean could talk to about fishing. He put the couple at ease and told them his company was interested in running a pipeline through their land. They were later offered more than $165,000 to sign easements. This map shows the proposed route through Pennsylvania, West Virginia,...
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Harper government gave big oil & pipeline companies $400M to go green
2013-12-22 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Postmedia: Canadian taxpayers have given more than $400 million to some large oil, gas and pipeline companies in recent years to support green projects that are also boosting the industrys environmental credentials. An analysis of federal accounting records by Postmedia News shows that Prime Minister Stephen Harpers government has offered these subsidies to money-making companies such as Shell Canada, Suncor, Husky Energy and Enbridge to pursue projects in biofuels production and wind energy as well as...
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Pipeline opponents say fight continues
2013-12-21 01:38:42| Energy - Topix.net
Opponents of the Northern Gateway say the war against the pipeline will now be waged against the federal government, where the decision rests after a federal review panel gave the project a green light.
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