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Canada's tar sands aren't just oil fields. They're sacred lands for my people
2015-06-23 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For years, concerned members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) in Canada, like myself, have voiced concerns about the impacts caused by oil sand exploitation. The vast majority of our community resides downstream from large scale oil sands surface mining and has seen first hand the complex impacts this industry has. Now, over 100 renowned scientists and academics have echoed our concerns about oil sands in a call for a moratorium on expansion, which is being taken seriously by the...
Scientists Say Tar Sands Development And Limiting Climate Change Incompatible
2015-06-11 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: More than 100 scientists from the U.S. and Canada called for a moratorium on the development of tar sands Wednesday, saying the carbon-intensive form of energy was "incompatible" with limiting climate change. The scientists published a consensus statement laying out 10 reasons why mining of tar sands - an energy source that`s found largely in Alberta, Canada`s Athabasca region and whose mining has led to significant deforestation and forest degradation in the province - needs to be halted. Those...
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Dozens of Canada's tar sands projects on hold as prices fall, analysis shows
2015-05-29 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Oil companies have frozen dozens of projects in Canadas tar sands, amid falling prices and a rising tide of protest against one of the worlds most polluting fossil fuels. Some 39 projects containing 13bn barrels of oil are currently delayed or on hold, according to analysis by the campaign group Oil Change International published on Friday. The projects a combination of open-cast mines and drilling would pump 7.8bn tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere if they went ahead, the equivalent emissions...
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Canada must deal with tar sands emissions, says Clinton campaign chief
2015-05-28 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Canada faces a widening rift with America over climate change unless it deals with excessive emissions from the Alberta tar sands, according to a trusted adviser to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. John Podesta told the Guardian that Canada must do more to compensate for its exploitation of the carbon intensive tar sands ahead of a critical conference in Paris aimed at reaching an international agreement to fight climate change. Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper has championed...
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Canada reneges on emissions targets as tar sands production takes toll
2015-05-16 04:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Canada has retreated on past promises to fight climate change, setting out lower targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions than any other industralised country so far ahead of a critical conference in Paris. The announcement was a setback to efforts to reach a deal in the French capital that would limit warming to 2C (3.6F), the threshold for dangerous climate change. Under the announcement, Canada committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. That is a far...
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