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  Did the State Department Manipulate Facts to Support Keystone XL?

  Steve Kretzmann, March 6, 2014
  An in-depth analysis released earlier this week by the Carbon Tracker Initiative suggests that the authors of the State Department’s Final Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for the Keystone XL pipeline even more severely underestimate the climate impact of the pipeline than initial criticisms suggest.
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  Frackwater: The latest fragrance from Jerry Brown

  David Turnbull, March 5, 2014
  A new video parody, entitled “Frack Water”, portrays a Jerry Brown look-alike outside a southern California oil field accompanied by a California oil industry representative. It's the latest escalation in Oil Change International's "Big Oil Brown" campaign, pushing the governor to impose a ban on fracking for oil and gas in California.
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  Activists Criticise “Misguided” Chevron Court Ruling

  Andy Rowell, March 5, 2014
  Indigenous rights groups yesterday reacted angrily yesterday to what they labelled as a “misguided judgement” by a New York District Court Judge, Lewis Kaplan, who ruled that lawyers representing Amazonian Indians had used “corrupt means” and “fraud” to win a legal case against Chevron in Ecuador.
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  “Moscow has its thumb on our economic throat”

  Andy Rowell, March 4, 2014
  As the West scrambles for a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Crimea, they know that as they try and negotiate with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, he holds one of the aces in the pack: Russian gas supplies to the west.
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  New Report Outlines Climate Costs of Relaxing Crude Oil Export Regulations

  David Turnbull, March 3, 2014
  A new analysis published today by Oil Change International shows that eliminating existing regulations on crude oil exports could result in additional greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 42 coal fired power plants.
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  Hundreds of Students Arrested in “XL Dissent” Action

  Andy Rowell, March 3, 2014
  Yesterday, several hundred students from over 80 colleges across the United States were arrested outside the White House as they took part in “XL Dissent” - a major demonstration against the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
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  New Tests Ordered on Crude by Rail

  Andy Rowell, February 26, 2014
  US regulators reacted to the string of recent crude by rail accidents yesterday by ordering that companies shipping crude out of North Dakota's Bakken fracking fields must undertake extensive testing for signs of dangerous volatility.
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  Will Scotland’s Oil Become A Stranded Asset?

  Andy Rowell, February 25, 2014
  In the increasingly bitter political wrangling over Scottish independence, yesterday was the turn of the future of North Sea oil to take centre stage in the debate.
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  Tar Sands Tailing Ponds “Are Leaking”

  Andy Rowell, February 24, 2014
  For years there has been growing evidence that toxic chemicals from Alberta's vast tar sands tailings ponds were leaching into groundwater and the nearby Athabasca River. The tailing ponds now cover a huge area – some 176 square kilometres – and given their size it is hardly surprising that some seepage may be occurring.
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  How BP’s Oil Damaged Fish

  Andy Rowell, February 19, 2014
  The fallout from the BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues. The oil giant is attempting to force the US government to release evidence which BP says proves that the oil spill did much less damage than at first feared.