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Ex pipeline exec: Keystone XL can still be salvaged if Canada acts on climate
2015-10-22 23:15:17| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A retired executive with pipeline builder TransCanada Corp. believes the long-stalled Keystone XL project can still be salvaged - if incoming Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau acts swiftly on climate change. Putting a price on carbon emissions is the last option Canada has available to persuade U.S. President Barack Obama to approve the controversial cross-border oilsands pipeline, said Dennis McConaghy, who left TransCanada last year.
Exxon's Funding of Climate Denial Turned Americans Against Their Own Government for Profit
2015-10-22 20:06:19| Energy - Topix.net
Exxon and other fossil fuel companies may have committed a crime of enormous proportions, and more and more elected officials and others are demanding an investigation. The charge is that Exxon scientists and management knew since the late 1970s that the company's product was helping cause our planet to warm "catastrophically," but management responded by covering this up and disseminating disinformation - joining with other companies to commit an enormous fraud on the public for profit.
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Exxon's Funding of Climate Denial Turned Americans Against Their Own Government for Profit
2015-10-22 20:05:57| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Exxon and other fossil fuel companies may have committed a crime of enormous proportions, and more and more elected officials and others are demanding an investigation. The charge is that Exxon scientists and management knew since the late 1970s that the company's product was helping cause our planet to warm "catastrophically," but management responded by covering this up and disseminating disinformation - joining with other companies to commit an enormous fraud on the public for profit.
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Fight climate change for global stability, says US defence and diplomacy figures
2015-10-22 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nearly 50 leaders of Americas defence and foreign policy establishment are calling on political and business leaders to think past tomorrow and lead the fight on climate change. In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal the experts 48 former secretaries of state and defense, national security advisers, diplomats and members of Congress from both parties say it is time for America to claim global leadership on climate change. The appeal is intended to apply pressure to Republicans...
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Paris climate pledges 'will slow energy emissions'
2015-10-21 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Pledges on greenhouse gas emissions made by governments ahead of landmark climate talks this December will result in a rapid and dramatic slowdown in the growth of carbon from the energy sector - but will not reverse that growth within the next 15 years, the worlds energy watchdog said on Wednesday. The International Energy Agency (IEA), regarded as the gold standard on energy data, found that the pledges would result in an increase of 3.7 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide from 2014 to 2030,...
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