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  House Supporters of Keystone XL Took $56 Million From Fossil Fuel Industry

  David Turnbull, May 22, 2013
  In todays House Keystone XL vote, those in support took in a combined $56 million from fossil fuel interests, $36 million from oil industry interests alone.
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  Is Shale Gas Britain’s New North Sea?

  Andy Rowell, May 22, 2013
  As a new report is published arguing that Britain's shale gas could become the "new North Sea", critics argue it is “wildly optimistic”, based on “mind-boggling” forecasts and “hopelessly misleading estimates of gas extraction.”
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  Indigenous Activists Challenge Shell

  Andy Rowell, May 21, 2013
  Shell was challenged at its AGM by Indigenous activists over the tar sands and Arctic drilling
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  Canadian MP Calls for Petcoke Inquest

  Andy Rowell, May 20, 2013
  A member of the Canadian Parliament has said he wants an investigation into a three-story mound of petcoke piling up near the Marathon refinery along the Detroit River.
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  Tar Sands Makes Climate Change “Unsolvable”

  Andy Rowell, May 17, 2013
  One of the world’s leading climate scientists Dr James Hansen has warned British MPs that exploiting the tar sands and oil shale would make the problem of climate change “unsolvable”.
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  U.S. oil boom threat to tar sands much greater than State acknowledges

  Lorne Stockman, May 16, 2013
  The U.S. oil boom is a clear threat to the tar sands market in the Gulf Coast. The State Department failed to acknowledge this in the SEIS.
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  Our Oil Addiction Ignores CO2 Milestone

  Andy Rowell, May 14, 2013
  Last week we reached an unwelcome milestone which should send alarm bells ringing in every capital across the globe.
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  Canadian Scientist “Betrayed” Over Tar Sands

  Andy Rowell, May 13, 2013
  Mark Jaccard, one of Canada's leading energy economists, from British Colombia’s Simon Fraser University, has said that the Canadian government's campaign of aggression and name-calling over the tar sands is not winning it any respect. "I feel betrayed as a Canadian,” he says.

• 8 Senate Republicans Boycotting McCarthy EPA Nomination Took $5.2 Million from Fossil Fuel Industry

  David Turnbull, May 9, 2013
  New analysis by Oil Change International revealed today that the 8 Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee who boycotted a vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency have received over $5.2 million in campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests.
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  Al Gore Tells Obama to Cancel KXL

  Andy Rowell, May 8, 2013
  Love him or loath him, you can say one thing Al Gore at the moment. He is certainly winding the Canadians up into a right old rage. Yesterday I blogged how he had called the tar sands to an “open sewer”. Gore then went on to give a public interview with The Globe and Mail....
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