News bites: A shift from Canada on Keystone XL impact?

From the Times:

But documents obtained by a Canadian environmental group suggest that the staff at Natural Resources Canada viewed Keystone XL as an important tool for expanding oil sands production. The documents were released to the Pembina Institute, a group based in Calgary, Alberta, after a request made under Canada’s Access to Information Act.

Briefing notes prepared for the natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, before a trip to Chicago to promote Keystone XL in March, noted that “in order for crude oil production to grow, the North American pipeline network must be expanded through initiatives, such as the Keystone XL Pipeline project.”

{mosads}A two-year study points to increased oil production as the cause of minor earthquakes in southern Texas, the Houston Chronicle reports.

Fuel theft, smuggling and fraud has cost European governments more than $4 billion in lost tax revenues, Bloomberg reports.

Japan’s government will pitch in to help a utility control leaking radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor, The Wall Street Journal reports.

— This post was updated at 9:08 a.m.