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Canadian Rocker Neil Young Blasts Stephen Harper, Alberta Tar Sands
Canadian rock legend Neil Young has blasted the Harper government for “trading integrity” in its single-minded appetite for Alberta tar sands dollars. via Canadian Rocker…
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Al Gore says Obama must veto ‘atrocity’ of Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
By: Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian (UK) | June 15, 2013 Former vice-president says oil pipeline is ‘really a losing proposition’ and demands climate plan promised at inauguration…
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Londoners arrested for protesting petrocrat Stephen Harper, tar sands
By: Obert Madondo Twitter: @Obiemad Environmental activists protesting “petrocrat” Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and our dirty tar sands were arrested at the British Parliament earlier today, The…
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Keystone XL Pipeline Lobbyists Have Deep Ties to White House
By: Pratap Chatterjee TransCanada and the provincial government of Alberta are paying former advisors to the Obama administration – as well as former staff of…
Canada Federal Budget 2013 missed opportunity to invest in clean energy, says Pembina Institute
Indeed, the 433-page budget plan fails to mention climate change even once.
By: Pembina Institute | Press Release:
OTTAWA — Clare Demerse, federal policy director at the Pembina Institute, made the following comments today following the release of the 2013 federal budget:
“Jim Flaherty delivered his eighth budget at a time when the federal government’s track record on the environment and climate change is under heightened scrutiny, and when the cuts to environmental protection contained in last year’s budget bills are starting to take effect.
Minnesota First Nations Group Orders Enbridge Pipeline Off Their Land
Day seven of blockade: Group hopes to slow down the flow of Canadian tar sands oil
By: Lauren McCauley | Common Dreams
Braving frigid temperatures and intense snowfall, a group of Red Lake Nation tribal members are now on their seventh day of a blockade of an Enbridge oil pipeline, which they say passes illegally through their sacred tribal land in northern Minnesota.
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