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TransCanada sticks by its numbers after Obama challenges Keystone job estimates
2013-07-29 05:03:22| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
TransCanada Corp. insists that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline will create about 20,000 jobs, despite suggestions by U.S. president Barack Obama that those estimates might be unrealistic.
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Barack Obama expresses reservations about Keystone XL pipeline project
2013-07-28 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama has given the strongest indication to date that he holds reservations about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, saying the project would not create many jobs and could raise gasoline prices. In an interview with the New York Times, the president disputed a main justification for the pipeline its economic benefits and reaffirmed he would reject the project if it expanded carbon pollution. The comments were seen by campaigners as evidence that Obama, in the wake of last month's landmark...
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Obama Climate Change Strategy: Politically Realistic or Strategy for Disaster?
2013-07-28 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Real News Network: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. On June 25, President Obama made a speech announcing his new climate change policies. Was his strategy a guarantee of climate change disaster, or a reasonable, modest, measured approach, and in fact the only one that's actually politically possible? Well, we're going to debate that today. But first let's see what President Obama said. Here's a little clip. ~~~ BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: I refuse to condemn...
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Obama climate plan sounds good, but needs urgency
2013-07-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTPost: Much of President Obama's comprehensive new Climate Action Plan and energy policy is admirable and high-minded, but the eloquence masks some darker unspoken truths. The climate plan begins, ". . . we have a moral obligation to future generations to leave them a planet that is not polluted and damaged." The speech then echoes this theme. We must act now, "as caretakers of the future," on behalf of "our children and our children's children." The president graphically depicts the price Americans are...
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Battle brews over Obama renewable energy plan
2013-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Public Integrity: Americas deserts are stark, quiet places, where isolation and the elements have long kept development at bay. To outsiders, these arid expanses may not seem like prized land. But they are poised to play a key role -- and perhaps, to serve as a battleground -- in President Obama's plan to double U.S. electricity from wind, solar, and geothermal sources by 2020. To help ramp up that amount of clean energy, the White House has urged approval of an additional 10,000 megawatts of renewable energy...
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