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Exxon Says Ruptured Pipeline in Arkansas Carried Canadian Dilbit
Posted by InsideClimate: Lisa Song on March 30th, 2013
InsideClimate: A pipeline that ruptured and leaked at least 80,000 gallons of oil into central Arkansas on Friday was transporting a heavy form of crude from the Canadian tar sands region, ExxonMobil told InsideClimate News. Local police said the line gushed oil for 45 minutes before being stopped, according to media reports [3]. Crude oil ran through a subdivision of Mayflower, Ark., about 20 miles north of Little Rock. Twenty-two homes were evacuated, but no one was hospitalized, Exxon spokesman Charlie Engelmann...
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Climate Change: One More Problem for Pakistan
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2013
Climate Central: The Indus river, originating on the Tibetan Plateau and flowing for nearly 2,000 miles through the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir and finally down to the province of Sindh and out into the Arabian Sea, is key to life in Pakistan.
The majority of Pakistan's 190 million people are involved in agriculture: the Indus, fed by glaciers high up in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram Himalaya mountain range, provides water for 90 percent of the country's crops. Meanwhile hydro-power facilities based on...
A balancing act for carbon stock preservation
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2013
PhysOrg: More accurate data regarding the extent to which greenhouse gases stemming from human activity interplays with the balance of carbon stocks in Europe will soon be available to inform policies. But would that make a difference?
Forests and land ecosystems are the earth's carbon reservoirs. They are key to limit the impact of greenhouse gases, as they fix those gases down. Scientists at the EU funded project GHG Europe aim to identify how best to manage the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in land...
GOP urges Obama to OK pipeline permits
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2013
United Press International: Republicans called on President Obama Saturday to approve work on the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, a project they called a "no brainer."
Delivering the GOP's weekly media address, Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., said the long-delayed pipeline would lower U.S. energy costs, create jobs and boost the economy, The Hill reported.
He said beginning work on the pipeline, that would move oil recovered from tar sands in Canada to refineries in the southern United States, was a "no-brainer" because it had...
Taking SomeTime Off – Back on 1st – in meantime read latest essay
Posted by Ecological Internet: None Given on March 30th, 2013
Ecological Internet: Gone fishing, just resting for a few days actually. Back on April 1st.