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As Enbridge Races to Build Line 3 Pipeline, Resistance Ramps Up in the Courts and On the Ground

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They joined in song , protesting a controversial tar sands oil pipeline called Line 3 , which is currently being constructed through northern Minnesota and traditional Anishinaabe lands. Tags: Line 3 Enbridge Enbridge Line 3 Minnesota Winona LaDuke tar sands

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Analysis: How Exxon Is Being Forced To Accept The Reality Of Bad Fossil Fuel Investments

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On February 24 , Exxon reported that it would actually remove over 30 percent of its proved reserves from its books — essentially wiping out the value of its Canadian tar sands holdings from its books. . Securities and Exchange Commission Canadian tar sands oil Tags: exxon Fraud reserves debt U.S.

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How One Utah Community Fought the Fracking Industry — and Won

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Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sand mine that threatened the region’s aquifer. Tags: Frac Sand Utah fracking finances fracking Originally posted on The Revalator.

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Will Rail Be Key to Exporting Canada's Tar Sands Oil to the World?

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Read time: 6 mins While Canadians turned out en masse for large climate protests last week, the country's oil and gas industry continued its plans to ramp up and export its massive and polluting reserves of tar sands oil, also known as bitumen, to the rest of the world. .

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Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’

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The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

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Oil Lobby’s Carbon Capture Solution Hasn’t Consulted Local Nation, Chief Says

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Chief Kelsey Jacko told an Edmonton crowd that the Pathways Alliance, a lobbying and marketing effort by Canada’s top oil sands producers, has neglected to consult his community on a massive carbon capture storage network project Pathways claims will be able to store 1,100 megatonnes of carbon dioxide. Pathways estimates a $16.5

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

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To exemplify the sin of fibbing we’ll use Shell’s Tar Sands project initiated back in 2008. The Oil Sands project exploits Northern Canada’s tar sands which stretch over 140,000 square kilometers of Alberta. Is this really tomorrow’s solution?