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Canadian tar sands crude heads to Bay Area refineries
2013-06-02 13:45:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
While politicians, environmentalists and Big Oil fight over the Keystone XL pipeline, the Bay Area's five refineries have quietly moved toward transporting controversial Canadian tar sands crude oil via another means: rail.
Tar sands supporters suffer setback as British Columbia rejects pipeline
2013-06-01 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Efforts to expand production from the Alberta tar sands suffered a significant setback on Friday when the provincial government of British Columbia rejected a pipeline project because of environmental shortcomings. In a strongly worded statement, the government of the province said it was not satisfied with the pipeline company's oil spill response plans. The rejection of the pipeline which was to have given Alberta an outlet to Pacific coast ports and markets in China further raises the...
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British Columbia Government Rejects Plans for Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline
2013-05-31 23:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: News broke today that the British Columbia government in Canada has rejected a proposal from Enbridge to build the Northern Gateway pipeline which would pump tar sands through the province for export. Government officials cited a lack of evidence that the company has the ability to transport the heavy crude safely, nor could Enbridge prove that they would have a sufficient response to a spill should one occur. According to Environment Minister Terry Lake, British Columbia thoroughly reviewed...
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Tar sands exploitation would be game over climate, warns leading scientist
2013-05-19 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Major international oil companies are buying off governments, according to the world's most prominent climate scientist, Prof James Hansen. During a visit to London, he accused the Canadian government of acting as the industry's tar sands salesman and "holding a club" over the UK and European nations to accept its "dirty" oil. "Oil from tar sands makes sense only for a small number of people who are making a lot of money from that product," he said in an interview with the Guardian. "It doesn't...
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10 Reasons Canadas Tar Sands Suck
2013-05-16 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pardon my french, but Canada`s tar sands suck. As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in poverty. I feel like we are being played for fools here in Canada, because foreign owned oil companies like ExxonMobil, British Petroluem and PetroChina (71 percent of oil sands production is owned by foreign shareholders) are making billions exporting raw tar sand...
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