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us/Latest Pro-Keystone XL Website Backed by GOP Special Interest Group
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This morning, the latest in pro-tar sands spin went live. KeystoneXLNow.com takes aim at President Obama for failing to approve the Keystone XL project (even though the White House just announced a...
us/Friends with Benefits: The Harper Government, EthicalOil.org and Sun Media Connection
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Just over a week before the Northern Gateway Pipeline hearings began, EthicalOil.org and its allies launched a pre-emptive PR offensive on environmental and First Nations groups who oppose the pipe...
us/Cozy Ties: Astroturf 'Ethical Oil' and Conservative Alliance to Promote Tar Sands Expansion
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As the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project Joint Review Panel begins hearing over 4,000 comments submitted by community members, First Nations, governments, and environmental groups, the tar sands fr...
us/Oil Industry Co-Opts Occupy Movement to Sell the Keystone XL Pipeline
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The AFL-CIO's America's Building Trades Unions and Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee are attempting to co-opt the Occupy movement with a new initiative to try to get the Keyst...
us/Why Ethical Oil's Deceptive 'Women's Rights' Defense of Tar Sands is Insulting and Wrong
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EthicalOil.org’s new spokesperson, Kathryn Marshall, authored an insulting piece this week on the Huffington Post titled “Care About Women's Rights? Support Ethical Oil”. Marshall’s piece is a resp...
us/Canadian Corporation Behind Efforts to Shut Down Occupy Wall Street Has Ties to Big Oil
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Occupy Wall Street is about challenging the power of the richest 1%. But what happens when that 1% owns the land of the occupation? It has been revealed that a Canadian company was behind efforts t...
us/Saudi Arabia and Ethical Oil Group Go Head to Head Over Ads
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The controversial Ethical Oil ads, which enjoyed an exclusive run on the Oprah Winfrey Network at the end of August, have earned a new enemy: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The tar sands industry ad ...
us/Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey on 'Ethical Oil' Ads
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Dear Oprah, I just don't know where to begin.  I can't find my words because I respect you so much. You're a woman pioneer who has done much to advance the status of women globally. You've donated ...
us/New Infographic Shows how Keystone Pipelines are ‘Built to Spill’
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TransCanada claims their pipelines are the safest in the continent. And the State Department seems inclined to agree having released their Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone...
us/Breaking: State Department Calls Keystone XL Environmental Impact "Limited," Ignoring Evidence
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The State Department just released their Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The 27-page document does not flag any significant environmental concerns....
us/Permit to Pollute: Dodging New Law, Agency Approves Alberta Coal Plant
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In Alberta, coal was first mined near Edmonton as early as 1850, and commercial coal operations took off in 1874. After the coal rush where hundreds of mines popped up across the province, the “bla...
us/In The Dog Days of Summer, CFACT Still Barks The Same Tune
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Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT Campus, the student wing of Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, wrapped up its student climate and energy conference, the Truth 2 Power Conferenc...
us/Could News Corp. Double Agent Neil Wallis Be Behind Climategate Hacking?
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As if this week’s Rupert Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal wasn’t enough, it now appears that the University of East Anglia CRU email hacking scandal (a.k.a. Climategate) might actually be the work of ...
us/Creator of the Valdez Catastrophe, ExxonMobil, Tries to Downplay Yellowstone Spill
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The ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Montana ruptured late Friday night, leaking 1,000 barrels of oil into the river. ExxonMobil estimates that approximately 160...
us/Canada Causes Cancer: Government & Industry Collude to Keep Asbestos Off UN Hazardous Chemical List
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Last week, the Canadian government successfully and unilaterally stonewalled efforts to list chrysotile asbestos as a hazardous chemical at a United Nations conference in Switzerland.  According to...
us/EPA Again Faults State Department Keystone XL Assessment as "Insufficient"
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The controversial Keystone XL project proposed by Canadian dirty oil giant TransCanada was dealt a potentially devastating blow on its quest for federal approval after the U.S. Environmental Protec...
us/Breaking: TransCanada Keystone I Pipeline Shut Down Indefinitely Due to Safety Concerns
ByEmma Pullman
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Following a string of oil spills, TransCanada’s Keystone I tar sands oil pipeline has been indefinitely shut down, and banned from restarting operations. Today, the Pipelines and Hazerdous Material...
us/Tar Sands Industry Has Its Eyes On Vancouver For Asian Export Terminal
ByEmma Pullman
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In recent months, opposition to Enbrige’s Northern Gateway Pipeline has mounted as citizens, environmental groups and First Nations groups have protested the $5.5 billion dollar pipeline that would...
us/TransCanada says Their Eleventh Leak Proves Keystone is Safe
ByEmma Pullman
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UPDATE: The 1,600 figure we reported yesterday was an early and apparently erroneous estimate. The most recent figure, from The National Response Center, is closer to 8,000 litres. According to the...
us/Canada Hides 20 Percent Tar Sands Annual Pollution Increase from UN
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The Canadian federal government deliberately excluded data documenting a 20 percent increase in annual pollution from Alberta's tar sands industry in 2009. That detail was missing from a recent 567...