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Canada finds China option no easy answer to Keystone snub

2014-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: It was February 2012, three months since President Barack Obama had phoned the Canadian prime minister to say the Keystone XL pipeline designed to carry vast volumes of Canadian crude to American markets would be delayed. Now Harper found himself thousands of miles from Canada on the banks of the Pearl River promoting Plan B: a pipeline from Albertas landlocked oil sands to the Pacific Coast where it could be shipped in tankers to a place that would certainly have it -- China. It was a country...

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DEALTALK-Canada's Telus risks costly snub with Mobilicity bid

2014-04-26 04:26:00| Telecom - Topix.net

If Telus Corp hopes to press its advantage in an upcoming auction of wireless airwaves, the Canadian telecom may need to abandon its plan to snatch a floundering rival out of creditor protection and back away from a nasty fight with the government.

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Power firms accused of Commons snub

2013-10-29 12:08:42| Energy - Topix.net

The Big Six energy companies have been accused of "turning their noses up" at Parliament for refusing to send their bosses to face MPs.

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Gartner: Enterprises will snub Microsoft's faster release tempo and stick with Windows 7

2013-10-14 19:40:26| InfoWorld: Top News

Enterprises will standardize on Windows 7 and Office 2010 and will ignore Microsoft's newer operating system and suite for years, research firm Gartner predicted. "There's a good chance that enterprises will stay on Windows 7 as long as possible," said Gartner analyst Michael Silver in an interview last week after hosting an hourlong presentation at the firm's annual IT conference in Orlando, Fla.

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