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Oil-by-train may not be substitute for Keystone pipeline
Posted by Reuters: Patrick Rucker on April 18th, 2013
Reuters: The prospects for bringing large amounts of Canadian heavy crude oil into the United States by train is a contentious issue as the U.S. government weighs whether to allow the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to go ahead.
An assumption that oil would move by rail without Keystone was a key part of a U.S. State Department report in March that found development of Canada's oil sands region will proceed at roughly the same rate, with or without the pipeline.
That finding undercut warnings from...
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Comments Off on Oil-by-train may not be substitute for Keystone pipelineKerry Staying ‘Far Away’ From Keystone XL Review—For Now
Posted by The Hill: None Given on April 18th, 2013
The Hill: Secretary of State John Kerry says he isn’t wading into the State Department’s review of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
At least not yet.
“I am staying as far away from that as I can now so that when the appropriate time comes to me, I am not getting information from any place I shouldn’t be, and I am not getting engaged in the debate at a time that I shouldn’t be,” Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Kerry noted the decision would ultimately come to...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Kerry Staying ‘Far Away’ From Keystone XL Review—For NowWorld Bank, IMF Link Urbanisation with Development
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 18th, 2013
Inter Press Service: Two of the world's largest multilateral institutions have released new data linking greater urbanisation with higher levels of human development, and are announcing that they will place greater priority on issues of urbanisation in coming decades.
According the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), urban areas in the developing world look set to pull in a staggering 96 percent of the additional 1.4 billion people expected in those countries by 2030. According to some metrics, that...