Oil sands
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Martin Lukacs: Canada’s oil corporations have made a profitable mess of the country: it’s time to put them under public, democratic control
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Coalition of Republicans and Democrats fell just one vote short of 60 needed for controversial bill to pass, despite GOP pledge to take up legislation in January
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Bill to approve controversial oil pipeline from Canada to Texan Gulf fails to win the 60 votes needed to pass
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Final waverer Senator Jay Rockefeller says he will vote no but vote is still likely to be indicator of trouble ahead for Obama
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Native Americans and ranchers in South Dakota are making common cause in their efforts to stop the project to transport oil from Canadian tar sands
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Jeb Lund: It won’t lower your gas prices or create as many jobs as you’re being told. Is this vote the biggest Republican nothingburger yet?
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John Abraham: President Obama has shown great leadership in tackling global warming, but his legacy may hinge on Keystone XL
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Energy East strategy drawn up by public relations firm Edelman calls for thousands of activists, major online campaign and digging into background of opposition groups as methods TransCanada Corporation should use to ‘play offence’ against those standing in its way
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On Tuesday, the Senate will vote to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. With Republicans now in control of both chambers in Congress, here’s a round-up of some of the most prominent climate sceptics (and deniers) in the GOP
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Tribe president says ‘I pledge my life to stop these people harming our children’, with pipeline route set to run through Rosebud reservation
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Senate will vote on similar bill next week over pipeline has taken centre stage in Louisiana Senate race
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Senate and House of Representatives schedule votes to support controversial pipeline, hours after president announced historic emissions deal with China
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Protests helped stymie three major tar sands projects this year, as industry is beset with transportation problems
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Letters: Many Greeks, Portuguese and other Europeans would no doubt refer the Scots to Keynes’s aphorism: ‘He who controls the currency controls the country’
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The oil company has filed plans for offshore drilling but past safety blunders and operational failings in the region make it a high cost, high risk venture
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John Abraham: Business researchers correct some (but not all) State Department errors in estimating Keystone carbon emissions
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Canada-US oil pipeline could wipe out reductions from carbon cuts elsewhere, suggests paper in Nature Climate Change
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True North 'We can repel this snake' – the visionary battle over Canada's eastern tar sands pipelines
Martin Lukacs: A video of a 700km protest march across Quebec shows the economic and environmental case against pipelines carrying Alberta's tar sands -
570,000 barrels of oil from Canada arrives in Bilbao, Spain, as EU considers dropping plan to label tar sands oil as dirty
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Capital investment will never see a return if world's governments fulfil climate change pledge, says Carbon Tracker group
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Martin Lukacs: A worldwide extreme energy boom, modelled after Canada's, is unleashing weapons of mass ecological destruction
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Desmond Tutu: We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters
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Major offshore oil discoveries and prospects for shale gas extraction are generating excitement – and resistance
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Around 200 marchers, mostly college students, were arrested for their part in a Sunday protest
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Judge says Governor Dave Heineman shouldn’t have had the final say on whether the oil pipeline can pass through his state
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Lawsuit and protests aim to put issue on midterm election agenda as focus of campaign moves to Nebraska
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Final decision rests with Barack Obama but review says no 'significant' effect on carbon emissions is likely
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Nafeez Ahmed: From North America to Europe, the 'national security' apparatus is being bought off by Big Oil to rout peaceful activism
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Nafeez Ahmed: Senior figures from industry, military and politics explore risks of financial chaos, oil depletion and climate catastrophe
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Tar sands expected to help drive 38% increase in emissions, Harper government admits in submission to the UN
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Lawyer representing two activists says their banner protest at Devon Energy does not justify terrorism hoax charges
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Nafeez Ahmed: Industry expert warns of grim future of 'recession' driven 'resource wars' at University College London lecture
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Global warming stopped being political poison, but the fracking and coal export boom continued, says Suzanne Goldenberg
The Keystone XL's Senate failure isn't the end of the pipeline as an act of war