tar sands oil Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:47:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Worse for Environment than Previously Understood https://www.greenoptimistic.com/keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-worse-for-environment-than-previously-understood-20130418/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-worse-for-environment-than-previously-understood-20130418/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:47:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=36432 The environmental group Oil Change International (OCI) analyzed the climate change impacts of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline and discovered that it would move so much tar sands oil that 181 million metric tons of greenhouse gases would be emitted annually. In stark contrast, US State Department consultants had previously maintained that completing the pipeline […]

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