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Tar Sands Mining Moves to Utah
2015-10-01 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The Canadian tar sands, or oil sands, are much more carbon-laden than most other fossil fuels produced in North America, and their possible outsized impact on the climate is one of the primary reasons the proposed Keystone XLPipeline, which would carry tar sands oil to Texas refineries, is so controversial. Despite long odds as oil prices continue their dip below $50 per barrel, commercial tar sands mining is coming for the first time to the U.S., where an Alberta company called U.S. Oil Sands...
Canada: No long-term future in tar sands, says Alberta's premier
2015-09-30 15:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The leader of Canadas biggest oil-producing province has declared she sees no long-term future in fossil fuels, predicting Alberta would wean itself off dirty energy within a century. In an early reveal of her forthcoming new energy policy, Albertas Rachel Notley said she would fight climate change by cleaning up the tar sands, shutting down coal-fired power plants, and converting to wind and solar power. Notley also forecast an eventual future beyond fossil fuels a dramatic change for...
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Enbridges Aging Tar Sands Pipelines Beneath Great Lakes Are Ticking Time Bomb
2015-09-10 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Straits of Mackinac is a narrow waterway that separates Michigan`s lower peninsula from its upper peninsula. The straights connect two of the Great Lakes: Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. But underneath this iconic part of the Great Lakes are two 62-year old pipelines. The pipelines have never been replaced, despite the well-documented risk of a rupture. "If just one of the pipelines ruptured, it would result in a spill of 1.5 million gallons of oil--and thats if Enbridge, the company that owns...
Bill Nye Depressed by Tar Sands Extraordinary Exploitation of Environment
2015-09-03 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Bill Nye recently took a trip north to the Alberta tar sands while filming his new science documentary and he did not mince words about the state of Canada`s crude oil reservoir. Thank you @BillNye & National Geographic for coming to see the #tarsands & its impacts and talk about #climatechange pic.twitter.com/2jjuzabsAm -- Melina LM (@Melina_MLM) September 2, 2015 Producing all this oil thats producing all this carbon dioxide, thats not good from a global stand point, the children`s...
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1st US tar sands mine set open for business in Utah
2015-08-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: On a remote Utah ridge covered in sagebrush, pines and wild grasses, a Canadian company is about to embark on something never before done commercially in the United States: digging sticky, black, tar-soaked sand from the ground and extracting the petroleum. The impending opening of the nation's first tar sands mine has become another front in the battle across the West between preservationists and the energy industry. U.S. Oil Sands has invested nearly $100 million over the last decade to acquire...
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