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Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

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The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Source: USOS, DWQ. Click to enlarge.

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IHS Markit: US oil producers to halt 1.75 MMb/d per day of production; Canada to cut 0.5 MMb/d

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Due to the collapse in oil prices, IHS Markit expects US producers are in the process of curtailing about 1.75 This resumption of production may accelerate if WTI remains above $30 per barrel—a price that allows operators to cover their operating costs and that reflects improved storage availability.

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Osum Oil Sands closes $500M private placement; new investors include government of Singapore

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Canada-based Osum Oil Sands Corp. With the submission of this application and as a result of the proximity of the project to existing in situ production of 340,000 barrels per day, Osum was assigned 359 million barrels of proved plus probable reserves by its independent reserve auditors. Scotia Waterous Inc.

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BC government won’t support Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline as presented over spill response concerns

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Northern Gateway’s West line, 36 inches in diameter, would transport an average of 525,000 barrels of oil sands crude per day to Kitimat. Condensate is used to thin petroleum products for pipeline transport (diluent). Canada Infrastructure Oil sands Policy' The project before the JRP is not a typical pipeline.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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February, 2009 : Record heat waves in late January and early February overloaded urban energy, water, and transport systems in the southernmost states of South Australia and Victoria and intensified hundreds of seasonal and man-made bushfires throughout the countryside, killing 374 people. “ We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook.

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The technology behind Ford’s Lightweight Concept Vehicle; prospects for Mach-II with 50% mass reduction difficult

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Aluminum will be very product specific; on the [new] F-150, its absolutely the right solution. The new MMLV components are being integrated in series-production vehicles to create full vehicles and subassemblies for testing. This will be street legal, but that’s it. [It] But the C/D car is where you are getting on the fence.

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