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Canada: After Upset Election, Route for Tar Sands to Pacific Doesn't Close
2013-05-16 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Environmentalists suffered a setback on Tuesday when British Columbia re-elected a premier who left the door open for approval of two oil pipelines that would carry tar sands oil across B.C. to the Pacific Coast, where it could be exported to the world market. Despite trailing in the polls, incumbent Christy Clark, the leader of B.C.'s Liberal Party, defeated Adrian Dix and his New Democratic Party. Dix had opposed both pipelines, and environmental groups had hoped his win would signal the end of...
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Pipeline Owner Asks Vermont to Reconsider Tar Sands Oil Ruling
2013-05-16 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The owner of a crude oil pipeline that runs between Maine and Montreal is asking Vermont environmental regulators to reconsider a ruling that would require a new review under the state's land-use planning law if the company seeks to move Canadian tar sands oil to Portland for possible shipment to markets across the world. In its motion to reconsider, the Portland-Montreal Pipeline Corp. Pipeline said the coordinator of the District 7 Environmental Commission, who issued the ruling last month,...
Maine Committee Eyes Moratorium on Tar Sands Oil
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Journal: A bill creating a two-year moratorium on the transportation of "tar sands" oil in Maine pit environmental groups against those who say the ban would have far-reaching negative effects on the economy during testimony before the Legislature`s Environment and Natural Resources Committee on Monday. The bill, LD 1363, calls for a legislative resolve setting the moratorium while directing the state`s Department of Environmental Protection to study the potential impacts of moving oil sands, known by...
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Canada: Debate on Kinder Morgan Tar Sands Pipeline Takes Center Stage in B.C. Election
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rabble: For a climate organizer, the ongoing British Columbia election campaign has been a rare treat. For the first time in a very long time, climate change and fossil fuels are taking centre stage in an election campaign. The past two federal elections have been marked more by the absence of discussion of climate change than its presence. Even in the most recent U.S. federal election, climate only broke into the campaign thanks to the force of a climate supercharged hurricane crashing into New York...
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Tar Sands Disaster: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?
2013-05-06 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: New reports of tar sands oil-related disasters continue to reinforce that the Keystone XL pipeline is too risky for American families. Despite a "massive cleanup effort," ExxonMobil has recovered only 2,000 of the total 5,000 barrels of spilled Canadian tar sands crude in Mayflower, AK, according to the accident incident report from last month`s Pegasus pipeline disaster. The report was released by the Department of Transportations Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)...
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