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• Canadian project will seek to produce algae from oil sands CO2 emissions

  
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  In Canada, a three-year project will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products like biofuels. The Algal Carbon Conversion Pilot Project, a partnership among the National Research Council of Canada, Canadian Natural Resources Limited and Pond ...
  3 days ago

• Malawi launches exploration for rare earth metals, natural gas

  
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  Malawi launched a $20 million project last week to start exploration for rare earth metals and natural gas in the southern part of the country, reports the African Press Agency . The government expects the project to help the local economy through increased foreign exchange and other revenues. With the extraction ...
  3 days ago

• Canadian MP Calls for Petcoke Inquest

  
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  In January this year Oil Change International exposed a dirty overlooked secret of the tar sands. Called petcoke, it is a by-product of the tar sands process, which is so dirty it emits five to ten per cent more carbon dioxide than coal. The report also pointed out that the use of petcoke in the tar sands was in ...
  4 days ago

• Tar sands exploitation would mean game over for climate, warns leading scientist

  
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  Prof James Hansen rebukes oil firms and Canadian government over stance on exploiting fossil fuel, which he says would make climate problem unsolvable Major international oil companies are buying off governments, according to the worlds most prominent climate scientist, Prof James Hansen. During a visit to London, he ...
  5 days ago

• Canada backs demonstration-scale algal biorefinery project in the oil sands; Algal Carbon Conversion

  
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  The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. The Algal Carbon ...
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• Keystone XL: Obama urged by Democrat backers to reject pipeline

  
  Marketspace Blog — Authority: 140
  Letter signed by 150 prominent donors says project is the most important environmental decision of presidency • Read the letter here . . . → Read More: Keystone XL: Obama urged by Democrat backers to reject pipeline Related Posts: Environmentalists urge Obama to block Keystone XL and act on Obama ...
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• Al Gore et al - oil sands ignorami

  
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  E zra further examines Al Gore’s war against Canada’s oilsands and reveals an egregious comparison made by Obama’s anti-oil supporters. More .
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• 150 Major Democratic Donors Urge Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline

  
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  Where money talks louder than science, the letter from the donors wont go unnoticed, the week before Prime Minister Harper is to visit Washington. By David Sassoon In the latest show of force by opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, a group ...
  2 weeks ago

• Opponents of Oxford’s partnership with Shell

  
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  Shell’s research money is also buying legitimacy for its unconscionable activities globally. These include human rights abuses in the Niger delta, reckless drilling plans in the Arctic, fracking in South Africa, and carbon-intensive tar sands extraction that undermines indigenous rights in Canada. Thursday 9 May ...
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• BHPs new CEO Mackenzie takes charge amid mining austerity

  
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  Andrew Mackenzie, now officially in charge of BHP Billiton, will spend his first day as CEO touring the Yandi iron ore mine in Western Australias Pilbara region. Mackenzie has been doing the rounds in Pilbara over the past 24 hours, "meeting some of the estimated 13,000 people who work for BHP in the region," ...
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• Rep. Griffin Wants Exxon Pipeline Relocated, but Keystone Is a No-Brainer

  
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  He wants a pipeline moved out of an Ark. watershed, but thinks a pipeline through the Ogallala aquifer is a good idea. The contradiction grates on critics. By Lisa Song Rep. Tim Griffin, a staunch supporter of the proposed Keystone XL ...
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• Synchronized Information for Proving Oil Sands Extraction Process

  
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  A Control magazine article, A Data-Driven Search For Oil , captures the results of integrating intelligent devices, the automation system, and plant wide history to improve productivity of oil extraction from the oil sands of Northern Alberta, Canada . The authors highlight the importance of this information: At ...
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• Arkansas Residents Sick From Exxon Oil Spill Are on Their Own

  
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  The Arkansas Department of Health says people with dizziness, nausea and headaches have the option to leave, and it is their personal choice. By Lisa Song For more than a month, residents of Mayflower, Ark. have been told not to worry about ...
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• Rep. Markey Asks Exxon CEO to Explain Contradictory Statements on Arkansas Oil Spill

  
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  Markey cites police reports, obtained by InsideClimate News, which reveal discrepancies and contradictions in Exxons account of the pipeline spill. By Lisa Song Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to ExxonMobil Tuesday seeking ...
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• Canada’s “Sewer Salesman” Heads to Europe

  
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  One of Canada’s most senior politicians is back in Europe on yet another lobby tour to try and bully politicians there to ditch their landmark climate legislation as it discriminates against the dirty tar sands. Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources , will tour Paris, Brussels and London this week. ...
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• CHART: Oil sands crudes deepening discount

  
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  After reaching six months highs in April, Canadian crude is once again falling behind US and global oil prices. The price oil sands producers receive remains stuck at almost $30 a barrel below the international benchmark on Monday, as the spread between Western Canada Select and US benchmark West Texas Intermediate ...
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• The Case of the Disappearing Dilbit: How Much Oil Was Released in 2010 Pipeline Spill?

  
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  A crucial number is removed, without explanation, from the EPA website that is tracking the cleanup of the 2010 dilbit spill Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. By Lisa Song A key piece of data related to the biggest tar sands oil spill in U.S. ...
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• Hot Docs Review: Oil Sands Karaoke [2013, Charles Wilkinson]

  
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  At one point in Oil Sands Karaoke , one of the subjects speaks of the unifying nature of karaoke, how he would see people coming together at the bar who otherwise wouldn’t have anything to do with one another. In a sense, this is probably the key message behind this film, a portrait of Fort McMurray, home of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arkansas Oil Spill Shatters American Dream of Families Still Displaced From New Homes

  
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  Uprooted and anxious, Arkansans find themselves thrust into the debate about the Canadian oil that filled their streets and the safety of such pipelines. By Maria Gallucci It has been more than a month now, and Amber Bartlett has had enough ...
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• Citizen group finds 30 toxic chemicals in air following tar sands oil spill in Arkansas

  
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  Independent air samples by locals have yielded "a soup of toxic chemicals" in Mayflower, Arkansas where an Exxon Mobil pipeline burst on March 29th spilling some 5,000 barrels of tar sands oil, known as bitumen. Chemicals detected included several linked to cancer, reproductive problems, and neurological impacts such ...
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