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Canadian Review Panel Approves Plans Oil Pipeline
2013-12-20 05:35:57| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: An environmental and economic review panel approved plans for a pipeline and port project that, if built, will move oil from Albertas oil sands to tankers on Canadas Pacific Coast. After approval stalled in Washington for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would link the oil sands to the United States Gulf Coast, the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, which would cost about 7.9 billion Canadian dollars, or about $7.4 billion, became Canadas backup plan for increasing oil sands production. The...
Canadian regulator OKs oil pipeline to Pacific
2013-12-20 05:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Canada`s regulator recommended Thursday that the government approve a proposed pipeline to the Pacific coast that will allow Canada`s oil to be shipped to Asia despite environmental concerns. A three-person review panel said opening Pacific markets to Canadian oil is important to the economy and thus supported Enbridge`s controversial pipeline. There are 209 conditions, but no major potential stumbling blocks such as a route change. Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver said the government will...
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In Northern Gateway Pipeline Decision, Economics Trumped All Else
2013-12-19 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: An independent Canadian federal panel on Thursday approved Enbridge's proposal to build a new pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta to the British Columbia coast, a significant gain in the industry's long campaign to find export markets for the nation's abundant but carbon-heavy form of crude oil. The panel set 209 conditions on the project [3] as a way to overcome environmental and safety concerns. Even that, it said, would not guarantee that there would be no environmental harm. But its central...
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Canada regulator urges approval oil-export pipeline
2013-12-19 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Canadian regulators urged the government to approve the country's first overseas oil-export project on Thursday, concluding that Enbridge Inc's C$7.9 billion (US$7.4 billion) Northern Gateway pipeline plan posed little risk to the environment if the company complied with some 200 conditions. Two years after a panel of environmental and energy regulators began hearings into the project, it sided against the line's many opponents and recommended the completion of a project that would allow Canada...
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Northern Gateway pipeline: Yes or no?
2013-12-19 20:11:45| Energy - Topix.net
Following months of hearings, years of debate and dozens of protests, the federal panel reviewing the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline will release its report later today.
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