tar sands News
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New map reveals tar-sands-ready refineries across Europe
More than half of Europe’s oil refineries are ready to process ultra-high carbon tar sands, one of the most environmentally devastating fuels in production, according to a comprehensive report on Europe’s refining industry released today [1]. Seventy-one out of Europe’s 95 refineries are now capable of processing heavy and/or pre-processed crude from tar sands, and have been ...
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First delivery of devastating tar sands arrives in Europe
The first shipment of highly polluting Canadian tar sands oil to Europe is due to arrive in Spain tomorrow (Thursday May 29). Environment groups Friends of the Earth Europe, Transport & Environment and Greenpeace warn that this delivery provides a snapshot of Europe’s energy future – a continued addiction to ever-dirtier oil. The 600,000 barrels ...
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President Has All Information Needed to Reject Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
The following is a statement by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, international program director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, on the State Department’s final environmental impact statement for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline: “Even though the State Department continues to downplay clear evidence that the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to tar sands expansion and ...
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NRDC: Tar sands pipeline fails presidential test
President Obama said today he would not okay the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline unless it "does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution." Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director of the international program with the Natural Resources Defense Council, made the following statement: “The president made it emphatic: he won't green light a tar sands pipeline that means ...
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Grandstanding on Keystone XL tar sands pipeline changes nothing
The Senate voted today on an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution proposed by Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) that would support building the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The non-binding measure received majority support but does not approve the pipeline. Peter Lehner, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, issued this statement on the measure: ...
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NRDC: President Retains Responsibility for Keystone XL Tar Sands Decision
A majority in the U.S. House today voted for Nebraska GOP Rep. Lee Terry’s legislation, The Northern Route Approval Act,” that seeks to speed up approval for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline by eliminating the need for a presidential permit. Franz Matzner, associate director of government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, made these comments on the vote: ...
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NRDC: Senators Should Oppose Bill Forcing Approval of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
The lame duck Senate soon may consider a bill forcing approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, thus overriding presidential authority. The following is a statement from Danielle Droitsch, director of the Canada Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council: “This tar sands oil pipeline was a bad idea before the election, and it remains a bad idea—a very bad idea. The ...
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State Department Takes Prudent Action on Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
The State Department announced today it will extend its decision-making period on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The following is a statement from Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director of the International Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council: “The State Department is taking the most prudent course of action possible. It is already clear that the Keystone XL tar sands ...
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KXL Tar Sands Pipeline: The more we learn, the worse it looks
The U.S. State Department today released a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline proposed to pass through the United States from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. As the Natural Resources Defense Council starts to analyze this draft environmental review, NRDC Canada Project Director Danielle Droitsch issued this statement: “The facts remain ...
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Regardless of Approval, Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline Will Likely Never Be Built
With the announcement that the Canadian federal government would approve Enbridge’s Proposed Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline to British Columbia, First Nations and environmental advocates reacted with the following statements: Dr. Tzeporah Berman, Canadian author and environmentalist: “Just like Keystone XL, the Northern Gateway pipeline faces widespread opposition from the ...
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Encouraging lower carbon intensity
T&E's Nusa Urbancic writes in today's edition of the Financial Times: The FT accuses the European Union fuel quality directive of being an “attempt to single out Canada’s oil as uniquely dangerous”. Poppycock. To do so would be political insanity, not to mention illegal. The EU law encourages oil producers the world over to lower the carbon intensity of their products. It ...
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Nebraskans’ Message: We know more now why Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline would be a colossal mistake
The U.S. State Department is holding a public hearing today in Grand Island, Nebraska, on a new route for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Anthony Swift, an attorney in the international program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, made these comments concerning the hearing: “Nebraskans are sending a clear message: Each passing day provides more evidence that approving the ...
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California corrects Canadian lobbying
The battle over how to classify oil extracted from tar sands and oil shale under the EU's fuel quality directive has taken an interesting turn, with California's Air Resources Board writing to the EU climate commissioner telling her not to believe some of the lobbying undertaken by Canada and the oil industry. With member states having to decide whether to support the Commission's proposal to ...
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New research shows climate emissions from Keystone XL tar sands pipeline much worse than reported
Scientists and advocates today unveiled new research showing that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would damage the climate much more than previously thought, by dramatically expanding tar sands production and because it will lead to increased combustion of a particularly dirty form of oil. Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, experts and advocates said the new information gives ...
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Major report shows keystone XL tar sands pipeline would worsen climate change and fails president’s climate test
The proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would significantly boost the carbon pollution that drives climate change, failing the test set by President Obama, according to a detailed analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council. In just one key way, over its 50-year life, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would add up to 1.2 billion metric tons more carbon pollution than if it carried ...
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Robert Redford leads prominent Americans who DemandCleanPower
Robert Redford and an array of prominent voices are calling on Americans to demand clean energy and reject dirty fuels with a particular plea that President Obama deny the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, as part of a new high profile climate action campaign debuting today. Redford is joined on the www.DemandCleanPower.org website debuting today by actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, ...
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NRDC calls on major airlines to steer clear of highly polluting new fuel types
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today urged 15 major U.S. and Canadian airlines and The Boeing Company to publicly oppose the use of jet fuel made from highly polluting sources including liquefied coal, oil shale, and so-called “tar sands,” and called on the airlines to join a campaign seeking increased investment in cleaner fuels throughout the airline industry. “The aviation ...
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Dirty energy keystone XL Measure has no place in clean energy bill
During the Senate’s work today on the bipartisan Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill, several senators debated a proposed Senate measure supporting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would worsen climate change. The Natural Resources Defense Council maintains that the Shaheen-Portman bill should be kept free of amendments that would make it impossible for this bipartisan ...
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Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: State department papers over climate issues
The U.S. State Department today released a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline proposed to pass through the United States from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Natural Resources Defense Council experts have begun analyzing the draft review and have found numerous major flaws, including: Climate Impacts: The analysis minimizes the climate ...
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In Ad and Letter, Nobel Laureates Urge Obama to Deny Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
Ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates today are urging President Obama to deny the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, citing the moral imperative of protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable populations from the devastating effects of climate change. The laureates include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former President Jimmy Carter, and landmine activist Jody Williams. “You stand on the brink ...
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