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The Globe and Mail
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Company’s plan to raise capital by selling holdings around the world has been met, thereby allowing it to keep the Canadian properties
Reuters
May 20
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Petroleum coke piled up along the banks of the Detroit River has sparked a storm of protest from local residents and environmental campaigners, who claim they are just one more problem associated with the bituminous tar sands being mined in...
New York Times
May 18
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Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.
Biomass Magazine
May 17
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The Government of Canada has announced that an innovative new technology will reduce industrial GHG emissions. The three-year project will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products.
Sydney Morning Herald
May 16
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Exploiting oil and gas trapped in tar sands and shale threatens to make climate change 'unsolvable' said James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who raised concerns about global warming in the 1980s.
guardian.co.uk
May 16
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Stephen Harper's administration has increased spend from $9m to $16.5m in the last year
The Canadian government has nearly doubled its advertising spending to promote the Alberta tar sands in an aggressive new lobbying push ahead of Thursday's...
OilVoice
May 16
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US Oil Sands Inc. TSXV USO a company focused on oil sands exploration and production in Utah announced that it has filed its unaudited interim financial statements for the three month period ende
guardian.co.uk
May 15
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Leaked papers show UK rejects proposal to classify oil from tar sands as highly polluting, a label that would deter EU countries from importing it
Britain has given its clearest signal yet that it wants to allow European countries to import...
The Globe and Mail
May 15
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Stalled projects could slow oil sands development and supply will outstrip demand, agency warns
OilVoice
May 14
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Madagascar Oil LONMOIL announced this morning that construction work on the Tsimiroro Steam Flood Pilot is reaching completion and steam injection into the first wells has commenced. In 2012 the c
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Tar sands, or oil sands, are exactly what they sound like - sand saturated with oil.
Canadian tar sands production is estimated to increase from 1.32 mb/d to 3.23 mb/d. Tar sands have a tremendous global warming footprint, however, and environmentalists are pushing legislation through Congress to limit the amount of oil sands products that government agencies can purchase.[1]
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