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Alberta Oil Spill: Up To 3,000 Barrels Spill Near Red Deer River Reports Plains Midstream Canada
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 10th, 2012
Canadian Press: Crews were scrambling Friday to contain and clean up a pipeline spill that is believed to have sent up to 475,000 litres of crude oil flowing into a rain-swollen Red Deer River system in west-central Alberta.
Plains Midstream Canada says when the spill was discovered Thursday night it closed off its network of pipelines in the area.
Tracey McCrimmon, executive director of a community group that works with the industry, said it was rural homeowners who first raised the alarm about an oil pipeline...
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Ethics for an ‘Ecological Civilisation’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 10th, 2012
Inter Press Service: Leading Japanese ecologists are pushing for the concept of environmental "ethics" to influence the upcoming Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, an approach they contend will foster accountability towards sustainable development.
"(Environmental) ethics is based on the concept of making people accountable for the preservation of natural resources and biodiversity. By highlighting this aspect, we aim to combat the priority on economic growth that has hijacked previous Earth Summits," said Ryoichi Yamamoto,...
Koch brothers seek buyers for Canadian tar sands assets
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 10th, 2012
Reuters: Koch Industries' Canadian energy division has put interests in several Alberta oil sands properties on the auction block, adding to a growing list of opportunities for developing the massive resource being shopped to potential bidders.
Koch Oil Sands Operating ULC is offering stakes in six properties comprising 220,000 net acres, with total bitumen in place estimated at more than 8 billion barrels, according to Western Divestments, the financial adviser for the offering.
The recoverable resource...
Record heat marches on: Texas and contiguous US had warmest spring on record
Posted by Texas Climate News: Bill Dawson on June 10th, 2012
Texas Climate News: Much of Texas has been getting something of a break from the history-making, headline-grabbing drought of 2011 in recent months, but the state`s excessive heat marches on.
All in all, temperature data through the end of May seem unlikely to be cited by many climate-change skeptics.
The figures, the NCDC reported, showed Texas had its warmest spring (March through May) on record and its third warmest January-through-May period.
Three Texas cities had their warmest January-through-May periods...