businessgreen.com - 29 days ago
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Business Green: The potential rollout of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology should not be used to justify the continued expansion of Canada's controversial tar sands industry, according to a major investor-backed report released yesterday. The report, from Co-operative Financial ...
guardian.co.uk - 28 days ago
co-operative.coop - 10/27/2009
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The study produced by The Co-operative Financial Services
and WWF-UK debunks the idea, lauded by oil companies...
and the Canadian government, that carbon capture and storage (CCS) will significantly counter the high levels of greenhouse gases emitted in ...
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Carbon capture and storage cannot significantly reduce ...
itsgettinghotinhere.org - 10/26/2009
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Today in Ottawa, 100 concerned citizens staged mock
deaths at the Royal Bank of Canada, accompanied by...
chanting and chalk outlines. Following a weekend of activity at Powershift Canada , the action called attention to RBC’s role as the lead ...
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Die-In at Royal Bank of Canada Includes 100 Protesters ...
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Tar Sands CCS Myth Shattered
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... (PDF). Report Slams Low-Carbon Tar Sands Myth (Business Green) Even under the most optimistic scenarios for CCS development, the projected emissions from tar sands developments would be greater than Canada’s entire 2050 carbon budget. The potential rollout of carbon capture and storage (CCS) should not be used to justify the continued expansion of Canada’s controversial tar sands industry, according to a major ...
Energy and Global Warming News for October 29: Report slams low-carbon tar sands ‘myth’
Climate Progress —
... the reduction needed to make tar sands oil compare favourably with conventional crude.
Kudos to New Scientist for calling the “biggest global warming crime ever seen” by their real name, “tar sands” — see Memo to Obama: CCS won’t make tar sands clean. Memo to all: They ain’t “oil sands”. See also Canadian bishop challenges the “moral legitimacy” of tar sands production. For more on the report, see here.
Climate change threatens quarter of Swiss farmland: research ...
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