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Obama addresses criticisms of Arctic oil drilling ahead of Alaska trip
2015-08-29 11:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: President Barack Obama is will be arriving in Alaska on Monday for a three-day tour of the state, which will become the longest trip to the state by a sitting president and make him the first president to visit the Arctic Circle. During this week's address centered around the trip, Obama highlighted his reasons for the visit. Aside from Alaska's beautiful scenery, Obama's focus will be working with Alaskan communities as well as foreign Arctic countries in order to address the impacts of climate...
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Obama notes concerns over 'extraordinarily dirty' Canada oil extraction
2015-03-06 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama amplified the concerns of environmentalists about the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Friday and repeated his own reservations the project would have few benefits, but said he has not made a decision on the project. Obama, explaining the debate over the pipeline to a group of students, described concerns about the "extraordinarily dirty" extraction methods for Canadian oilsands - a description the Canadian government has long argued is unfair. "The reason that a lot...
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February's top stories: Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline project; Europa Oil & Gas begins drilling
2015-03-02 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
US President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, and Europa Oil & Gas has started drilling at the Kiln Lane-1 exploration well in northeast Lincolnshire, the UK. Hydrocarbons Technology wraps up the key hea
Obama vetoes Keystone XL oil pipeline bill
2015-02-25 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
US President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline project.
The Obama oil boom
2015-01-28 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The greatest oil boom in this nation's history has occurred during the tenure of self-proclaimed environmentalist Barack Obama. Under Obama, the steady drop in U.S. oil production which had occurred virtually unchecked since 1971 has been reversed. Crude oil production has risen every year of his administration. It has jumped 72% since he took office, producing about 3.6 million additional barrels a day during that time. Oil production has grown so much that last summer the nation caught and...
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