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$24M ad campaign for Keystone pipeline had little impact: Survey
Posted by CBC: None Given on August 22nd, 2014
CBC: America and Canada are friends. That’s the main message Americans got from phase one of the federal government's multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to promote Canadian oil in Washington and drum up support for the Keystone XL pipeline.
That’s no surprise to some Washington-based Canada-U.S. relations experts who say the first leg of the campaign was too polite and, well, too Canadian to have any real effect.
All-Canadian conflict over new oil pipeline
The ads were part of a $24 million,...
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Greenland ice melting at record speed
Posted by Deutsche Welle: None Given on August 22nd, 2014
Deutsche-Welle: Satellite data shows ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are declining at record speed. The annual loss of ice has doubled in the case of Greenland and tripled in the West Antarctic compared to figures from 2009.
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven mapping elevation changes of Greenlandic and Antarctic glaciers have found ice sheets are melting at record pace. Per year, the ice sheets dump some 500 cubic kilometers of ice into the oceans. The researchers say that...
Earthquakes Near Deep-Earth Wells in Colorado Raise Concerns
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 22nd, 2014
USA Today: A series of small but unusual earthquakes near a well being pumped full of liquid drilling waste north of Denver has reignited a debate about the impacts of oil and gas development near homes.
Colorado isn't normally earthquake territory, but aggressive drilling and pumping here and across the country may be changing that, contributing to the debate about what costs we're willing to bear to achieve energy independence.
"What we have seen since about 2009 has been a steady increase of the rate...
At Least 10% of Fracking Fluid Is Toxic
Posted by ThinkProgress: Andrew Breiner on August 22nd, 2014
ThinkProgress: At least 10 percent of the contents of fracking fluid injected into the earth is toxic. For another third we have no idea. And that`s only from the list of chemicals the fracking industry provided voluntarily. That`s according to an analysis by William Stringfellow of Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, reported in Chemistry World.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the practice of injecting fluid at high pressure into the earth, which breaks up oil- and gas-filled rock formations that is...