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United Kingdom: Peak District: Rewilding the rivers
Posted by Guardian: Andy Pietrasik on March 25th, 2013
Guardian: For Warren Slaney the devil is in the details. Details that could easily escape the attention of many visitors to the Peak District national park, because Warren's world exists along the edges and the margins and beneath the surface of the rivers he manages as head keeper of the Duke of Rutland's 3,800-acre Haddon estate (haddonestate.co.uk) in the Derbyshire dales.
For the fishing fraternity, there are few finer examples of rivercraft than along these stretches of the Wye, the Lathkill and the...
Keystone Public Comments Won’t Be Made Public, State Department Says
Posted by InsideClimate: John H. Cushman Jr. on March 25th, 2013
InsideClimate: When the State Department hired a contractor to produce the latest environmental impact statement for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, it asked for a Web-based electronic docket to record public comments as they flowed in each day. Thousands of comments are expected to be filed by people and businesses eager to influence the outcome of the intense international debate over the project.
But the public will not find it easy to examine these documents.
A summary of the comments will be...
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Comments Off on Keystone Public Comments Won’t Be Made Public, State Department SaysIndustry Money Influences Keystone Vote, Group Claims
Posted by Summit Voice: None Given on March 25th, 2013
Summit Voice: It`s probably not surprising that the U.S. Senate passed an amendment (62-37) in support of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. There`s money -- Big Money -- at stake, and new research from Oil Change International details who got what. The 10 senators who cosponsored the Hoeven Amendment have on average received $807, 517 from the fossil fuel industry. That works out to 254 percent more than the average senator not sponsoring the amendment, and a total haul of more than $8 million dollars, based...
Bakken Emerges as Contender for US Oil Drilling Crown
Posted by CNBC: Javier E. David on March 25th, 2013
CNBC: In the resurgence of US energy production, one spillover effect has been to put relatively obscure places on the map. One of those is Bakken, an oil hub that some believe could challenge the Gulf Coast's prodigious crude output.
Bakken, a region stretching through swaths of North Dakota and Montana, has transformed itself into a major site of US crude production.The formation is now seen as the future of oil drilling in the U.S., and is an epicenter of pipeline expansion projects designed to capitalize...
Tar Sands Bill Gets Early OK in Vermont
Posted by Times Argus: None Given on March 25th, 2013
Times Argus: The Vermont Senate has advanced legislation that would toughen environmental review over an oil pipeline if its use sees significant changes.
Preliminary approval Friday came without substantial debate on the bill. It followed concerns voiced by environmental groups that owners of the Portland Montreal Pipe Line are looking to reverse its current east-to-west flow and begin shipping so-called tar sands oil from western Canada through northern New England for loading onto ships in Maine.
The...
Trains Carry Millions of Gallons of Oil Across Maine
Posted by Associated Press: Clarke Canfield on March 25th, 2013
Associated Press: Millions of gallons of crude oil from the nation's heartland are crossing Maine in railroad tank cars bound for a Canadian oil refinery, raising concern among environmentalists and state officials about the threat of an accident and spill.
The oil is primarily coming from the Bakken shale-oil field in North Dakota, with lesser amounts from neighboring Canada, where oil production has boomed in recent years. Trains carried nearly 5.3 million barrels of the light crude – more than 220 million gallons...
Utah Protesters Decry Tar Sands in Chevron Refinery March
Posted by Salt Lake Tribune: Christopher Smart on March 25th, 2013
Salt Lake Tribune: They carried cardboard coffins and waved banners that screamed "Dirty Energy Kills" and "Stop the Tar Sands Insanity."
Some 60 hearty souls braved brisk March breezes Saturday to march one-third mile up a private road to Chevron’s Salt Lake City refinery. They protested tar sands development in eastern Utah and criticized the oil giant’s processing of Canadian crude from Alberta tar sands.
Later Saturday afternoon, however, a spokesman for Chevron said that although the Salt Lake City facility...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Utah Protesters Decry Tar Sands in Chevron Refinery MarchLosing wetlands to grow crops
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 25th, 2013
ScienceDaily: Getting enough to eat is a basic human need -- but at what cost to the environment? Research published in BioMed Central's journal Agriculture & Food Security demonstrates that as their crops on higher ground fail due to unreliable rainfall, people in countries like Uganda are increasingly relocating to wetland areas. Unless the needs of these people are addressed in a more sustainable way, overuse of wetland resources through farming, fishing, and hunting will continue.
In 2009 it was estimated...