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Mainers join nationwide tar sands protest
2014-05-17 16:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WCSH: A large group in Maine joined protesters across the country in a nationwide day of action against dirty fuels. More than 100 protests took place Saturday, focusing primarily on sending a message to President Obama not to approve the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. The pipeline would carry crude oil from Canada's tar sands in Alberta through the midwest to refineries in the Texas Gulf Coast. It's an issue people in Maine have watched closely, because of the fear of tar sands oil flowing through...
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Environmental groups in Portland to oppose tar sands oil and Keystone XL pipeline
2014-05-17 07:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Environmentalists will rally at the Deering Oaks Park bandshell in Portland to oppose the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the shipping of tar sands oil through Maine. The event is part of the nationwide "Day of Action Against Dirty Fuels" and is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday. The rally is co-sponsored by a host of Maine environmental groups and will include speakers such as Portland Mayor Michael Brennan and Phil Coupe of Revision Energy. Environmental groups including the Sierra Club oppose the...
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Report Finds Investments in Albertas Tar Sands Make Neither Economic Nor Climate Sense
2014-05-08 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A total of $1.1 trillion USD earmarked for risky carbon-intensive oil sector investments need to be challenged by investors, according to a new report released today by the Carbon Tracker Initiative. The research identifies oil reserves in the Arctic, tar sands and in deepwater deposits at the high end of the carbon/capital cost curve. Projects in this category make neither economic nor climate sense and wont fit into a carbon-constrained world looking to limit oil-related emissions, Carbon Tracker...
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Because of Tar Sands, Energy Is Now Canada's Biggest Greenhouse Gas Source
2014-04-15 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Canada`s energy industry has officially surpassed transportation as the largest producer of climate-change causing greenhouse gases, in no small part because of large increases in tar sands extraction, according to a government report quietly released Friday. In its overview of reported greenhouse gas emissions from industry facilities in the year 2012, Environment Canada said that oil and gas production now accounts for one quarter of Canada`s greenhouse emissions, narrowly beating transportation....
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Tar sands oil expansion is risky
2014-04-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal Sentinel: Will Lake Superior and the Upper Great Lakes region continue to be the land of sky blue waters? Or will a vast swath of our pristine waters become a fading memory, soiled by the leaks and spills of a massive network of tar sands crude oil pipelines and maritime traffic? Expanding proposals for more pipeline capacity by Canadian pipeline company Enbridge, as well as plans to ship tar sands crude oil across Lake Superior and other Great Lakes, are astonishing in their sheer scale. For example,...
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