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Paris agreement a victory for climate science and ultimate defeat for fossil fuels

2015-12-12 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The right hand of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gripped the gavel in the seconds before striking the historic first global deal on climate change. Dignitaries, politicians and delegates had filed into the packed La Seine plenary room from about 5.30pm here in Paris. But there was still time for some last minute drama. It turned out that a paragraph that contained the word shall should have read should, but the delay was enough to create tension across the venue. But this is...

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Pipeline's defeat could translate to rail gains

2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EnergyWire: President Obama's decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline Friday could come with a heavy side of tank cars. Canadian energy companies need about a dozen crude-laden trains each day to replace the volume of oil that could have been transported through KXL. Now that TransCanada Corp.'s Alberta-to-Gulf-Coast pipeline has been denied, however, it's clear that the contest between KXL and railroads in Canada's western oil patch wasn't a zero-sum game. Rail shippers could see a modest boost from...

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Sunday trading plans 'facing defeat'

2015-11-09 23:21:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Government plans to relax Sunday trading laws in England and Wales are facing defeat in the House of Commons after the SNP said it would oppose the move.

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The Keystone XL pipeline defeat is one goal in a game, and we're way behind

2015-11-06 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: In the first two weeks of the Keystone fight, we couldnt get any press to pay attention to our work to defeat the environmental disaster we knew it would be if it were approved none at all. Because back then in the summer of 2011 everyone knew that we couldnt win. No one ever beats big oil. Now Im sitting here fielding dozens and dozens of phone calls and emails from reporters, because we did: President Obama announced on Friday that he had denied TransCanadas proposal to build the Keystone...

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