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Canada's Liberals plan fresh start on energy after rejection of Keystone pipeline
2015-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Barack Obama has formally rejected the Keystone XL pipeline project after seven years of review, saying that importing "dirtier crude oil" from Canada would tarnish the United States' reputation for fighting climate change. The U.S. President's decision on the oil sands pipeline, while not unexpected, puts pressure on Justin Trudeau's new Liberal government to rehabilitate Canada's international image as a responsible energy producer and find new routes to get crude to foreign markets. Foreign...
Keystone XL Rejection: Indigenous Resistance Exults, Trudeau Disappointed
2015-11-08 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Country: Indigenous activists and environmentalists hailed President Barack Obamas rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday November 6, calling it a victory for Mother Earth and a step toward shutting down the Alberta oil sands entirely. In the fight against Keystone XL our efforts as indigenous peoples, whether Lakota, Dakota, Assiniboine, Ponca, Cree, Dene or other, has always been in the defense of Mother Earth and the sacredness of the water, said Tom Goldtooth, head of the Indigenous Environmental...
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Climate awareness and the economy influenced Obama's rejection of Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-07 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: When a Canadian company first proposed building the Keystone XL oil pipeline in 2008, Barack Obama was a presidential candidate running to end wars, climate change was a fringe issue to many people and the nation was entering a devastating recession that would send the unemployment rate soaring to 10%. But the politics of climate and oil shifted dramatically in the intervening years, and President Obama's announcement Friday that the controversial pipeline through the U.S. heartland "would not...
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Obamas Keystone pipeline rejection both symbolic & legacy-defining
2015-11-07 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Given the opportunity to write the history of his presidency -- an opportunity he will soon be afforded, much to his bank account's benefit -- President Obama will almost certainly highlight three things. First, of course, the fact the the Affordable Care Act provided health insurance to millions more Americans (with the percent of the country that lacks insurance just hitting a low of 9 percent.) Second, his efforts to repair relations with Iran and Cuba, on which the jury is out. And third,...
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'It sucks:' Hardisty, town at start of Keystone XL, takes stock of rejection
2015-11-07 17:18:14| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
HARDISTY, Alta. - Lee Hayes and his coworker Dave Stuart have a blunt assessment of U.S. President Barack Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline: "It sucks."
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