June 4, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
Efforts to expand production from the Alberta tar sands suffered a significant setback when the provincial government of British Columbia rejected a pipeline project because of environmental shortcomings. Continue Reading
September 6, 2012 in The Daily Republic
OMAHA, Neb. The company that wants to build a pipeline to transport crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries said Wednesday it has revised its proposed new route through Nebraska to avoid environmentally sensitive areas.
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July 7, 2012 in The Daily Republic
Every day, fleets of Brobdingnagian trucks are digging up countless tons of Alberta’s oil sands a black, gooey mixture of sand, oil and water that lies just below the Canadian province’s boreal forest, an immense region thick with jack pines, spruce, aspen and tamarack trees and fed by wetlands that cover most of the area. Continue Reading
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