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Tutu urges US to shelve 'carbon bomb' Keystone

2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: South Africa's peace icon Desmond Tutu on Friday urged the United States to reject Canada's Keystone XL pipeline, saying the "carbon bomb" would upend the US role fighting climate change. The Nobel Prize-winning archbishop who fought apartheid led a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging him to reject the 1,179-mile (1,897-kilometer) pipeline, which would bring oil from the carbon-intense Alberta tar sands into the United States. "The verdict on whether to approve or reject the Keystone...

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