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Meet the Man Selling Canada's Oil Sands to Washington
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Ottawa is quietly using a well-connected Conservative MP as a direct liaison with the U.S. Congress to help build support for the Keystone XL pipeline project and a raft of other Canadian priorities in Washington. Rob Merrifield is operating on a mandate letter from Prime Minister Stephen Harper that instructs him to represent Canadian interests to the legislative branch of the U.S. government on everything from the oil-sands crude pipeline to speeding the passage of trade through heavy American...
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Keystone XL protest, live from Washington DC
2013-02-17 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Heres a live stream of Sundays Forward on Climate rally on the National Mall:
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Billionaire has unique role in official Washington: climate change radical
2013-02-17 16:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: When Thomas Steyer a San Francisco billionaire and major Democratic donor discusses climate change, he feels as if one of two things is true: What hes saying is blindingly obvious, or insane. I feel like the guy in the movie who goes into the diner and says, There are zombies in the woods and theyre eating our children, Steyer said during a recent breakfast at the Georgetown Four Seasons, his first appointment in a day that included meetings with a senator, a White House confidant and...
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Tribal Luminaries Participate in Massive Climate Change, Keystone Rally in Washington
2013-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Country Today: Famed Native author Louise Erdrich is among the notables flocking to Washington, D.C. for a February 17 rally demanding governmental action on climate change. She is one of 72 people from Minnesotan who was scheduled to board what activists have dubbed the Earth Train from the Amtrak station in St. Paul, the Pioneer-Press reported. They are not only advocating against climate change but also demanding an end to the Keystone XL pipeline that cuts from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada to the Gulf...
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Mainers take part in climate rally in Washington
2013-02-17 06:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Five busloads of Mainers are taking part in a demonstration in Washington that's being described as the largest climate rally ever in the U.S. Tens of thousands of people are expected at Sunday's Forward on Climate rally on the National Mall urging President Barack Obama to take action on climate change and reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline that would carry oil derived from tar sands in western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast. Sierra Club Maine says it chartered four buses...
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