Tag: Tar Sands
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Koch Brothers Are Largest Lease Holders in Alberta Tar Sands
The largest lease holder in Canada’s oil sands is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the conglomerate that is the source of the fortune owned by the controversial conservative political donors, Charles and David Koch. [caption id="attachment_327488" align="alignnone" width="500"] The Alberta, Canada, tar sands operations. Photo credit: Occupy.com[/caption] The Koch’s holdings in the tar sands were disclosed…
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Report Confirms TransCanada’s Proposed Energy East Pipeline Will Export Tar Sands Unrefined
A new report shows that nearly all of the 1.1 million barrels a day of crude oil the proposed Energy East pipeline would carry would be exported unrefined. The report, TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline: For Export, Not Domestic Gain, shows eastern Canadian refineries would process only a small amount of crude from Energy East, given…
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Report Details How Extreme Energy Extraction Threatens the Great Lakes
As governments approve tar sands oil and fracking projects around the Great Lakes, the Council of Canadians is warning that these extreme energy projects are putting the Great Lakes in peril. Council of Canadians Chairperson Maude Barlow outlines the web of pipelines, refineries and oil shipments that threaten the Lakes in her new report released…
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Enbridge to Double Carrying Capacity of Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline
By Heather Libby In its largest capital project in history, Enbridge plans to do what Transcanada so far can’t—ship more than half a million barrels of heavy oil across the U.S. border without President Barack Obama’s direct approval. [caption id="attachment_324372" align="alignnone" width="648"] Graphic courtesy of Enbridge[/caption] Late Monday evening, Enbridge announced plans for its largest capital project…
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Inspector General Clears State Department of Conflict-of-Interest in Keystone XL Report
Yesterday, the inspector general concluded that the U.S. State Department did not violate conflict-of-interest rules with the selection of Environmental Resources Management (ERM) to conduct environmental assessments of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, according to the L.A. Times. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told the L.A. Times that the inspector general “found that our processes not only…