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Alberta Premier Redford returns to Washington to lobby for Keystone XL pipeline
2013-04-09 14:27:09| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Alberta Premier Alison Redford returns to Washington, D.C., today to lobby for the Keystone XL pipeline and highlight the province's record on the environment.
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Illness Has Forced Robert Redford To Slow Down This Year
2013-03-21 00:59:23| Telecom - Topix.net
Actor Robert Redford attends Sundance Channel launch cocktail at the Telefonica store on November 26, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.
Canada: Wildrose attacks Redford over carbon controversy
2013-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: A federal tax on carbon emissions will kill Alberta jobs and transfer wealth from the province, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith said Tuesday as she accused Premier Alison Redford of cosying up to Eastern Canada at the provinces expense. Smith focused on notion of a Canada-wide carbon tax as Redford returned from a trip to Ottawa where she spoke of Albertas experience levying a $15 per tonne price on carbon emissions for a green technology fund. Redford described Albertas carbon levy as the...
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Canada: Redford stumps for oil sands, Keystone XL pipeline in Washington
2013-02-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she's open to tougher environmental regulations, but only if current policies fall short of her goals, and not as a trade-off to win U.S. approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. "Our regulations are pretty tough," Ms. Redford said Saturday in an interview, responding to a question about whether she would tighten scrutiny of the oil sands to appease skeptics in President Barack Obama's administration. "I'm not going to start down that path. Part of the quid...
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Canada: With Keystone in crisis, Ms. Redford goes to Washington
2013-02-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: When Premier Alison Redford unpacks her bags in Washington, D.C., this morning, lets hope she remembered to bring along a ladder, pitons and maybe a good strong rope. Shes in for one heck of an uphill climb. Redford arrives in Washington to lobby for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline just days after 30,000 people gathered on Capitol Hill to protest against the project to ship Albertas bitumen to the U.S. Gulf Coast. More troubling for her lobbying effort, perhaps, was a declaration by...
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