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Robert Redford: Republicans are 'living in 1950s' on the environment
2015-01-19 18:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Robert Redford, the Hollywood star and long-time environmentalist, has accused Republicans of "living in the 1950s" with their approach to their environment. The Oscar-winner took particular aim at Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, who has been a champion of the coal industry. "He represents the polluters' interest because he is living in the 1950s," Redford told Variety. He added that the bespectacled 72-year-old senator "looks like he just slid out from under a rock"....
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Robert Redford: President Obama, Put the Arctic Off-Limits to Big Oil
2014-04-17 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Four years ago this week, BP`s Deepwater Horizon drill platform exploded. Eleven workers died that day. Their bodies were never found. Over the next 87 days, 210 million gallons of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico. It fouled fishing grounds, ravaged the coastline, and shut down tourism. The world got an ugly look at some of the terrible hidden costs of fossil fuels. Spill-related health problems plague the people and the wildlife of the Gulf to this very day. I personally hoped that we, as a...
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Allegations TransAlta manipulated electricity market disappoint Redford
2014-02-28 09:23:28| Energy - Topix.net
Alberta Premier Alison Redford said Thursday she was "disappointed" over allegations that TransAlta Corp. manipulated the province's electricity market by shutting down power plants to drive up prices.
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Al Gore, Alison Redford agree to disagree on climate change
2014-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Calgary Herald: Premier Alison Redford said she faced down former U.S. vice-president Al Gore in Switzerland over his views on the impact of the oilsands on climate change, and they agreed to disagree. Redford told reporters Wednesday in her first public appearance since returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos that she used her encounter with Gore at a private session last week to correct myths about the oilsands and to tell the climate change crusader and other participants about the steps Alberta...
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Alberta Premier Redford Says Keystone XL Pipeline Prospects Improving
2013-12-23 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Alberta Premier Alison Redford says that heading into 2014, she sees encouraging political signs in relation to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States, and North Americans are realizing that pipelines are a better means of shipping crude than rail. In a year-end interview at her Calgary office, the Premier cited a broader recognition of the safety and environmental risks of rail, which has become the key transport alternative as Alberta oil sands and U.S. light oil production...
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