Category: Canada
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New Report Finds: Keystone XL Would Increase Gas Prices and Reduce National Security
PUBLIC CITIZEN — Keystone XL proponents are relying on two key arguments to urge the project to be approved: reduced prices for U.S. consumers and national energy security. Our analysis shows that the pipeline is almost certain to fail to advance either of these objectives …
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13 Spills in 30 Days
TCKTCKTCK — Moving oil is a dirty business, and never has that been more clear than this past month. Since March 11, the global oil industry has had 13 spills on three continents. In North and South America alone …
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Top 5 Reasons Transporting Tar Sands Crude is Reckless
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — Rep. Ed Markey: This latest pipeline incident is a troubling reminder that oil companies still have not proven that they can safely transport Canadian tar sands oil across the United States without creating risks to our citizens and our environment …
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Why Keystone XL Matters
WENDY ABRAMS — If we listen to the top climate scientists, we should leave the tar sands where they are, underground. But others will still insist we are going to keep burning oil for years to come, so aren’t we better off using Canadian oil rather than …
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World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts in 2013, After Record 2012
EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE — Even amid policy uncertainty in major wind power markets, wind developers still managed to set a new record for installations in 2012, with 44,000 megawatts of new wind capacity worldwide. With total capacity exceeding 280,000 megawatts, wind farms generate carbon-free electricity in more than 80 countries, 24 of which have …