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3/5/2013
A new front may soon open in the battle over
pipelines that transport Canadian oil to the U.S.
And this one involves a line that would carry even more oil derived from Alberta’s
tar sands than TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s proposed Keystone ...
27/4/2013
At a time when Canadian officials are aggressively defending TransCanada's Keystone XL
pipeline project, Alberta's Energy Department is quietly considering an Arctic alternative to carry their bitumen to market.
The department is ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
18/4/2013
A proposed Canada-to-Texas oil
pipeline would run just 1,000 feet from Terri Funk's doorstep, but the Nebraska farmer and her husband don't plan to protest or even attend the U.S. State Department's lone public hearing on the contentious proposal ...
17/4/2013
Opponents of the Keystone XL
pipeline used to have a simple argument: the project would endanger Nebraska’s delicate
Sand Hills region, a vast network of dunes and wetlands that have been designated a National Natural Landmark.
State ...
4/4/2013
With the controversy over the Keystone XL
pipeline extension surfacing yet again - opponents will hold a rally Wednesday night in San Francisco`s Pacific Heights neighborhood, outside a fundraiser President Obama is headlining--we thought we`d ...
19/3/2013
With a sense of grim determination, a group of unlikely allies has begun gathering at kitchen tables, in churches and along fence rows here to plot what could be the final battle in the four-year conflict over the Keystone XL ...
1/3/2013
The State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline Friday, suggesting that the project would have little impact on climate change.Canada’s oil
sands will be developed even if ...
19/2/2013
On the evening of April 18 1977, President Jimmy Carter invited television cameras into the Oval Office and portentously announced to the American people that "tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem unprecedented in ...
10/2/2013
Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL
pipeline, which, if built, is slated to ...
25/1/2013
The future of the controversial Keystone XL oil
pipeline is in the hands of the State Department. President Obama rejected a similar
pipeline proposal last year, but now that Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved an alternative route through ...
11/12/2012
The U.S. environmental assessment of a new Keystone XL
pipeline route from Canada will be meaningless unless it considers the effect mining of oil
sands has on climate change, opponents of the project said.
The State Department may ...
7/11/2012
Barack Obama has renewed his focus on climate change mitigation and energy security as he secured an historic second term of office as President of the United States.
Following a decisive victory against his Republican opponent Mitt ...
29/10/2012
Just three short years ago, it appeared that North America was on the verge of finally kicking that nasty dirty energy addiction that has been crippling our economy and energy independence. The U.S. had elected a President Barack Obama who set ...
17/8/2012
The Canadian company, TransCanada, has begun construction on the U.S. leg of the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline, installing segments in
east Texas even as the fate of the
pipeline’s northern leg remains in question. Company officials ...
16/8/2012
Sometime in the next few months, David Daniel probably will have to stand by and watch as bulldozers knock down his thick forest and dig up the streams he loves.
His
East Texas property is one of more than 1,000 in the path of a new ...
7/5/2012
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, pictured last February, speaks in Washington. TransCanada submitted a new application for the Keystone XL
pipeline Friday after changing the route to avoid environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska. (Cliff Owen, The ...
4/5/2012
The Williams river was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on 28 August 2011. Yet the evidence was all around:
sand piled high on its banks, trees ...
19/3/2012
For a while there, Jon Huntsman was the one Republican presidential candidate willing to deliver the straight dope on climate change. “To be clear,” he tweeted in August, “I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me ...
5/12/2011
Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" is being used to tap the last remaining natural gas deposits across large areas of the United States and western Canada, fueling continued dependence on hydrocarbons instead of a shift to genuinely clean energy ...
1/12/2011
Purchasing a full page ad in the Canadian paper the Globe and Mail, a group of African leaders and NGOs is calling on Canada to return to the fold on climate change. Canada has recently all-but-confirmed that after the ongoing 17th UN Summit on ...
29/11/2011
Canada is now one of world's energy superpowers.
Over the past two decades, changes in technology and the rising cost of oil have left it with so much recoverable oil in the
sands, rocks and clay of the province of Alberta that it is now ...
27/11/2011
Here's the essential fact to bear in mind. The
tar sands of northern Alberta are the second-largest pool of carbon on earth, second only to Saudi Arabia. It's burning Saudi Arabia, more than any other single thing, that has raised the temperature ...
24/11/2011
The Obama Administration's recent decision to delay the approval process for the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline has shifted attention to alternate routes for bringing a glut of
tar sands oil in Canada to refineries and ports ...
10/11/2011
The woman seated before the row of suited state legislators in her red Husker team hoodie was choking on tears. She had grown up on a farm in Nebraska. Her parents had grown up on farms, in the days before electricity and running water, and now ...