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16/5/2013
Environmentalists suffered a setback on Tuesday when British Columbia re-elected a premier who left the door open for approval of two
oil pipelines that would carry tar sands
oil across B.C. to the Pacific Coast, where it could be exported to the ...
15/5/2013
China is one of a number of countries that has gained permanent observer status on the Arctic Council.
At a meeting in Sweden, the eight members of the Council accepted India, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
However ...
14/5/2013
It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.Killing these iconic ...
8/5/2013
For more than a month, residents of Mayflower, Ark. have been told not to worry about lingering fumes from a March 29
oil spill that shut down a neighborhood and forced the evacuation of 22 homes."Overall, air emissions in the community ...
7/5/2013
When BP`s Deepwater Horizon
oil rig exploded in 2010, it hemorrhaged roughly 210 million gallons of crude into the
Gulf of Mexico. We know now, thanks to recent court hearings and settlements, that all this happened because
oil company managers ...
6/5/2013
The British
oil company BP has agreed to pay $600 million to cover 28 early restoration projects in the
Gulf Coast states damaged by the massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon
spill.
In a preliminary agreement reached with the Deepwater Horizon ...
5/5/2013
You’ve heard of the canary in the coalmine. Well, a species called the
Gulf killifish might be the fish in the
oil well.
Three years ago, the blowout at BP's Macondo well spewed more than 5 million barrels of
oil into the
Gulf of Mexico. ...
3/5/2013
A new front may soon open in the battle over pipelines that transport Canadian
oil to the U.S.
And this one involves a line that would carry even more
oil derived from Alberta’s tar sands than TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s proposed Keystone ...
2/5/2013
It has been more than a month now, and Amber Bartlett has had enough of hotels and apartments and trailer homes. Of crowded rooms whose thin walls amplify the bickering of her four children. Of piles of toys and clothes overflowing from drawers ...
1/5/2013
Crude
oil toxicity continued to sicken a sentinel
Gulf Coast fish species for at least more than a year after the Deepwater Horizon
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University of ...
30/4/2013
BP made a record pre-tax profit in the first quarter of double its $9bn for the same period in 2012, the company announced on Tuesday, as a Norwegian regulator rebuked the company for a 2012
oil spill in the North Sea.
The company's ...
30/4/2013
BP's profits slipped in the first quarter as it emerged that the
oil company had paid out more than half of the cash it has set aside to pay for damages caused by the 2010
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
The company's replacement cost ...
28/4/2013
Scientists cannot find traces of
oil in the deep water of the
Gulf of Mexico three years after the nation’s worst offshore
spill, but residual toxins are still in the sediment along the coastal marshes, according to scientists at the University ...
28/4/2013
The chief executive of TransCanada Corp. said Friday the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline will be in service months later than expected and cost more as it continues to await U.S. government approval.
TransCanada had been sticking to ...
27/4/2013
Raymond Ladouceur remembers when he could dip a cup into the Athabasca River for a drink. He remembers when the trout and muskrats were plentiful -- and when his community was healthy.
Despite recent heart surgery, Ladouceur, 72, still ...
26/4/2013
The Obama campaign`s newly minted advocacy group has mined a vein of political gold, namely goofy remarks by Congress` climate change deniers - mainly Republicans from Texas and the Deep South who are strumpets for Big
Oil and Big Coal, but also ...
25/4/2013
MPs will today highlight the role domestic shale gas could play in boosting tax revenue and enhancing energy security, but will also warn that its effect on energy prices remains far less certain.
A report to be published today by the ...
24/4/2013
U.S. EPA says the State Department's latest review of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline contains "insufficient information" on several fronts, including greenhouse gas emissions, alternative routes and the consequences of a potential
spill ...
24/4/2013
Rocker Neil Young wanted to see for himself the damage from ExxonMobil`s ruptured Pegasus
oil pipeline, which recently spewed reeking, black goo into small-town Mayflower, Ark. So Young, a stalwart environmentalist, drove his revamped, super ...
23/4/2013
In a draft assessment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, consultants for the U.S. State Department judged that building it would have no significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Why? Because the analysts assumed the tar sands
oil would ...
23/4/2013
Leading environmental groups declared on Monday that the Obama administration's latest environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline fundamentally violated the nation's core environmental law, an unmistakable warning that they would sue the ...
22/4/2013
Just a day after roughly one million gallons of heavy Canadian crude [3]
oil spilled into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board announced it was launching a formal investigation into the incident. It quickly ...
22/4/2013
Advocates and opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are due to file detailed comments on its environmental impacts on Monday, after the State Department refused to extend the comment period, which environmental groups had complained was too ...
22/4/2013
BP Plc's attempt to get a U.S. federal court to pin at least a sizeable amount of the blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster on other companies may have saved it billions of dollars.
After failing to settle claims from the 2010
Gulf of ...
21/4/2013
The state of Florida filed a lawsuit Saturday against the
oil company BP and the cement contractor Halliburton over the Deepwater Horizon
oil spill, becoming the fourth state to seek damages for the 2010 disaster.The suit, among other ...