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House Votes to Fast Track Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
2013-05-23 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted 241-175 to fast track the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, voting in favor of H.R. 3, the Northern Pipeline Approval Act, which would exempt the Keystone XL pipeline from any further environmental review. H.R. 3 marks the seventh time the House of Representatives has voted on a bill that would circumvent the nations most crucial environmental laws in order to force approval of Keystone XL. But yesterdays vote saw fewer Representatives in favor of...
Canada: Quebec to do own review of Enbridge pipeline project
2013-05-23 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Quebec will announce within weeks that it will launch its own public review of a proposed pipeline that would deliver crude oil from western Canada to eastern markets, its environment minister said Thursday. Yves-Francois Blanchet told Reuters in an interview that the review will be done simultaneously with a review by Canada's National Energy Board, in order to give local groups a chance to learn more about the project. Enbridge Inc, Canada's largest pipeline company, plans to reverse a section...
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Keystone pipeline: House votes to bypass Obama
2013-05-23 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Congress has voted to shut Barack Obama out of the biggest environmental decision of his presidency -- the fate of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline -- and claimed the authority to approve the project. The vote to approve the pipeline, which passed 241-175 in the Republican-controlled house, was pure political theatre. The measure would dispense with additional environmental reviews of the pipeline and would allow only 60 days for legal challenges. The bill was unlikely to pass in the Senate...
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House passes GOP bill to speed pipeline approval
2013-05-22 18:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental review. The bill was approved, 241-175, largely along party lines. Republicans said the measure was needed to ensure that the long-delayed pipeline, first proposed in 2008, is built. "This is the most studied pipeline in the history of mankind,"...
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Canadas government is spending millions to get you to like the Keystone pipeline
2013-05-22 09:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Canada obviously has a huge stake in the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline. If President Obama fails to approve it - a decision he recently put off yet again -- the Canadian oil industry will have a tough time getting its abundant tar-sands crude to seaside ports. Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently came to the U.S. to make the case for the pipeline in person, as did Canada`s ministers of foreign affairs and natural resources and the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan. And now our neighbor...
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