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Hundreds of actions are planned to protest Keystone XL
Posted by Nation: Allison Kilkenny on February 4th, 2014
Nation: Activists are participating in hundreds of nationwide protests on Monday against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
The State Department released a long-awaited environmental review of the pipeline Friday that found the project would have a "negligible impact" on climate change, a decision that bolsters the case for the controversial project.
The pipeline would ship 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
Environmentalists and advocates were quick to point...
Broad coalition backs Keystone XL oil pipeline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 4th, 2014
Associated Press: An unusual coalition of lawmakers from both parties, labor and business leaders, veterans groups and Canada's ambassador to the United States joined forces Tuesday to push for quick approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Five Democrats joined Republicans at a Capitol news conference to urge President Barack Obama to approve the pipeline following a State Department report last week that raised no major environmental objections. The $7 billion pipeline would carry oil from tar sands in western...
U.S. lawmakers backing Keystone pipeline mull next steps
Posted by Reuters: Patrick Rucker on February 4th, 2014
Reuters: A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers voiced support on Tuesday for the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, and did not rule out using legislation to force the White House to approve the Canada-to-Texas project.
Several U.S. senators and representatives encouraged President Barack Obama to bless TransCanada Corp's plan to build a line that would carry up to 830,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude from Western Canada and light, sweet crude from North Dakota to oil refiners in the Gulf of Mexico....
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Comments Off on U.S. lawmakers backing Keystone pipeline mull next stepsUnited Kingdom: Cuadrilla plans new Lancashire fracking locations
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 4th, 2014
Independent: A fracking company has announced plans to explore for shale gas in two new locations.
Cuadrilla Resources said it wanted to explore the full potential of Lancashire's shale gas resources at the two sites in Fylde.
The company said it would apply for planning permission to drill, hydraulically fracture and test the flow of gas from up to four wells on each of the sites.
Separate applications will also be made to install two seismic arrays that would be used to monitor the hydraulic fracturing...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on United Kingdom: Cuadrilla plans new Lancashire fracking locationsUnited Kingdom: Cuadrilla announces two new Lancashire fracking sites
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 4th, 2014
Guardian: Shale gas explorer Cuadrilla has said it will apply to drill and frack a total of eight wells at two sites in Lancashire.
The company is the only one to have used hydraulic fracturing in the UK so far, including a well in Lancashire that was later linked to two very small earthquakes outside Blackpool.
In an announcement on Tuesday, Cuadrilla said it will apply for planning permission to frack and test gas flows at two sites, Roseacre Wood, near Elswick, and Preston New Road outside Little...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on United Kingdom: Cuadrilla announces two new Lancashire fracking sitesRivers run dry as corruption claims surround Romania’s hydropower boom
Posted by Guardian: Luke Dale-Harris on February 4th, 2014
Guardian: Deep into the wilderness of Romania's Southern Carpathian mountains, Bogdan Binescu, an avid angler and environmental campaigner, stops by the white waters of a mountain stream. "This river used to be the only route back to civilisation," he says. "But now civilisation has caught up."
A few kilometres on, his meaning becomes clear. Where beech trees had previously risen from the banks of the River Capra, a grey concrete building sits on muddied earth, housing the turbines of a small hydropower...
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Posted by BusinessGreen: None Given on February 4th, 2014
BusinessGreen: Shale gas company Cuadrilla intends to begin fracking at two sites near Blackpool as early as next year.
Planning consent will be sought "to drill, hydraulically fracture and test the flow of gas from up to four exploration wells on each of the sites, one at Roseacre Wood and the other at Preston New Road", the company said in a statement today.
The proposal marks the first concrete fracking plans since a ban on the controversial extraction technique was lifted at the end of 2012.
Drilling...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 4th, 2014
Associated Press: Congressional investigators have found problems with federal coal sales that might have cost taxpayers $200 million or more in lost revenue, a senator said Tuesday.
Citing a new report by investigators at the non-partisan Government Accountability Office, U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., called for the sales to be suspended until the problems are rectified.
Further details on losses -- including when they occurred and how much coal was involved -- were not provided, drawing skepticism from...
Pakistan Has A Month’s Worth Of Water Left – And 5 Percent Of Its Tree Cover
Posted by Think Progress: Ari Phillips on February 4th, 2014
Think Progress: Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the impacts of climate change due to its location, population and environmental degradation. According to a 2013 report from the Asian Development Bank, Pakistan has one month of water supply on hand. The recommended amount is 1,000 days. 80 percent of Pakistan`s agriculture relies on irrigation from the overstressed water system. Pakistan`s average temperature is expected to increase around 3 degrees Celsius within the next 50 years...
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Posted by CBC: None Given on February 4th, 2014
CBC: A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline.
On July 20, 2009, the Peace River Mainline in northern Alberta exploded, sending 50-metre-tall flames into the air and razing a two-hectare wooded area.
Members of Dene Tha’ First Nations community of Chateh, about 50 kilometres away from the site of the blast, also want to know why the report was not released...
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