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Revealed: Alberta's Ploy to Break First Nations' Pipeline Opposition
2015-04-30 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Alberta government escalated its campaign to build tar sands pipelines under Premier Jim Prentice by seeking to have First Nations become full-blown proponents of the projects in return for oil revenues. Documents obtained by the Guardian show that under a proposed agreement the province would have funded a task force of Alberta First Nations and government officials to work jointly on removing bottlenecks and enabling the construction of pipelines to tide-water in the east and west coasts....
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