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New Study: Tar Sands To Skyrocket West Coast's Climate And Air Pollution
2015-05-04 04:06:58| pollutiononline News Articles
The Pacific coast faces a looming health, climate, and environmental crisis posed by an influx of tar sands fuel from oil interests inAlberta, Canada, according to new analysis released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), NextGen Climate America, ForestEthics, and a coalition of 27 partner organizations
Canada: Beneath the tar sands is even dirtier oil, industry is salivating
2015-04-12 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The price of crude oil has slumped to its lowest point in six years, and that has sent some major oil companies scrambling to get out of expensive tar-sands projects in Alberta, Canada. Shell has pulled out of one of its largest lease applications, and Petrochina is attempting to get rid of its tar-sands assets. Environmentalists have watched the slowdown with great hope. Yet at the same time, some of those very same companies are positioning themselves to tap into an even more dirty and expensive...
Frustrated Tar Sands Industry Looks Arctic Export Route
2015-04-07 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The Alberta tar sands industry -- and the governments that depend on tar sands tax revenues -- are facing an increasingly pressing problem: How to get the growing flow of oil sands bitumen to market. And with proposed pipelines to the south, east, and west facing stiff opposition, tar sands interests are now investigating another controversial option -- heading north and shipping their product via the Arctic. To the south, the proposed $10 billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport Alberta...
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Tar sands supporters suffer setback British Columbia rejects pipeline
2015-01-09 00:31:00| 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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Limiting tar sands, coal, Arctic oil key 2°c goal
2015-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The most efficient way of meeting the world's most prominent climate goal would involve ending all Arctic oil drilling plans, drastically curbing tar-sands oil mining in Canada, and leaving most of the world's remaining coal reserves in the ground. That's according to a new study that aimed to determine how best to limit the burning of different fuels to meet the international goal of holding global warming to less than 2°C, or 3.6°F. The goal was established during United Nations climate negotiations,...
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