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Texas Oil Spill Hits Home for Tar Sands Activists
2013-02-27 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: Does the Tar Sands Blockade (TSB) have a crystal ball we didnt know about? Yesterday in Tyler County, TX, a pipeline operated by Sunoco Logistics sprung a leak and spilled 20,000 gallons (or 550 barrels) of oil into local East Texas waterways. Deep East Texas is known for its creeks and lakes, freshwater eco-systems and aquifers that provide water to the eastern part of the state, including mega-cities Dallas and Houston. But oil companies treat these forests and waterways as collateral damage....
Protesters Demonstrate Against Planned Tar Sands Mine in Eastern Utah
2013-02-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: More than 100 protesters pounded drums, marched in a circle and decried a proposed fuel-producing tar sands mine in eastern Utah -- drawing curious onlookers under the dome of the state Capitol Thursday evening. The demonstration wasnt aimed at any particular piece of legislation but instead was focused on a planned operation between Vernal and Moab by Alberta-based U.S. Oil Sands. The Utah Division of Oil Gas and Mining gave the approval for the first stage of the mine in January. It will cover...
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Confirmed: Tar Sands Toxic Liquid Waste Contaminating Local Waterways
2013-02-18 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C. yesterday to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, more evidence emerged that the public isnt getting the full story of the environmental impacts of tar sands. Media yesterday reported on an internal government memo revealing a Canadian government study on a tar sands tailings pond that found that toxic liquid ponds do leak toxic chemicals into the environment--despite repeated denials of officials. For...
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Tar Sands Oil Fight Moves to Maine Towns
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Portland Press Herald: Code Enforcement Officer Chris Hanson eyed the door of the selectmen's chambers every time it opened, counting each person who came into the room -- something he doesn't often have to do. The room was nine people short of capacity just before the start of the meeting Tuesday evening, when it would become the latest battleground for the Portland Pipe Line Corp. and environmentalists trying to prevent the company from carrying so-called tar sands oil through the Sebago Lake watershed. The owner...
Senate Dems' Sequester-Replacement Plan Ends Tar Sands Exemption
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: A Senate Democratic plan to replace a series of automatic spending cuts would require tar sands producers to start paying into a fund for oil spill relief. The Democratic package would end an exemption for the tar sands industry that excludes it from paying an 8-cent-per-barrel fee assessed on domestic and imported petroleum. Lawmakers are working on a package of cuts aimed at replacing $85 billion of government-wide spending reductions, known as sequestration, scheduled for March 1. For more...
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