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Kerry Cool to Keystone XL Project, Pushes Clean Energy
2013-02-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
StarPhoenix: America's new Secretary of State John Kerry gave Canada's Keystone XL pipeline project a lukewarm reception Friday following a bilateral meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. In comments immediately after the meeting, Kerry emphasized a clean energy future and did not mention Keystone. As Canada and the United States "move forward to meet the needs of a secure, clean energy future of this shared continent, we are going to continue to build on our foundation of cooperation," he said....
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UPDATE 1-Kerry says hopeful for Keystone pipeline decision soon
2013-02-09 17:17:16| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
John Kerry, the new U.S. secretary of state, said on Friday he hopes his department will be able to make a decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline in the near term.
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Kerry promises 'fair, transparent' review of planned Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada
2013-02-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday promised a "fair and transparent" review of a Canadian company's plan to pipe oil from western Canada to refineries in Texas. In his first comments about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline since becoming secretary of state, Kerry said he is waiting for a review begun by his predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and hopes to make a decision in the "near term." The State Department has jurisdiction over the $7 billion pipeline because it crosses an international...
Keystone XL: Pressure on Kerry ahead of meeting with Canada counterpart
2013-02-08 15:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US secretary of state, John Kerry, steps into America's biggest environmental controversy on Friday in his first meeting with a foreign minister since his swearing in. Kerry's meeting in Washington with Canadian foreign minister, John Baird, will almost certainly touch on the Keystone XL pipeline project: a symbol of dirty oil for environmentalists, a route to market for land-locked Alberta. "I have no doubt that subject will come up, as it always does with our Canadian counterparts," the...
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Can Obama pair Keystone, climate action?
2013-02-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Barack Obama is approaching two of the most crucial energy decisions of his presidency: Should he disappoint climate activists by approving the Keystone XL pipeline? And should he anger industry groups by imposing tough greenhouse gas limits on existing power plants? But the president may have a third option: trying to placate both sides. Greenlighting Keystone while he moves forward with the power plant regulations could limit the political fallout from either move, handing Republicans...
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