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How Stephen Harper's old schoolmate helped kill the Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-07 05:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: One of the great ironies of the interminable saga of Keystone XL is that two of its principal antagonists were unaware that they went to grade school together. In the midst of one of the biggest environmental fights in American politics, the best-known activist on one side learned of his distant connection to the most powerful politician on the other: Stephen Harper. So these old grade-school alumni duked it out from a distance as the pipeline escalated from a regional land dispute to international...
Canada's Trudeau Expresses Disappointment In U.S. Decision On Keystone XL
2015-11-06 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Canadian Company TransCanada took a blow Friday when President Obama announced he was rejecting its request to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline would have helped transport hundreds of thousands of barrels of Canadian tar sands oil from Alberta to U.S. refineries. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed disappointment.
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Angry tweets from Republican leaders on the Keystone XL decision
2015-11-06 22:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Friday morning, after years of heated battles between environmentalists and Republicans, President Barack Obama announced that he is rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. In a speech, the president criticized both supporters and detractors of the pipeline from placing too much emphasis on a project that, according to the State Departments analysis, would neither create many jobs nor ruin the climate if approved. Still, reactions to his decision from Republicans in Congress and the 2016 presidential...
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Heres What You Need to Know About President Obamas Decision to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline
2015-11-06 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateDesk: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Heres What You Need to Know About President Obamas Decision to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline Posted by Tim McDonnell on Friday, November 6, 2015 Watch Climate Desks explainer video. In the years biggest victory for environmentalists, President Barack Obama announced Friday that he will reject an application from Canadian company TransCanada to construct the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, which would allow crude oil from Canadas oil sands to reach...
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The 7 things you need to know now about the Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-06 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: 1) President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline on Nov. 6. Obama positioned America as a global leader on climate change and said approving the project would undercut that leadership: "If we`re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we`re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them." This is the real decision weve all been waiting for. (You might have heard that Obama vetoed the...
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