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Countdown to a thumbs-down on Keystone XL (we hope!)

By
Carleen Pickard
| January 15, 2012

Wait a minute! Hang on! Didn't we celebrate that President Obama announced that the Keystone XL permit decision (whether or not approve TransCanada's application to build a mega pipeline to transport dirty tar sands oil from northern Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico) was off the agenda until 2013? Yes, we did. BUT then the payroll tax cut extension came up for consideration in Congress and outraged Republicans decided to attach legislation forcing President Obama to approve or deny Keystone XL in 60 days. This happened on December 23.

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Emma Pullman

Canadian corporation tries to shut down Occupy Wall Street [Updated]

By
Emma Pullman
| October 14, 2011

Update: Overnight, nearly 8,000 Leadnow members sent messages to Brookfield Asset Management's executives demanding they respect the democratic rights of protesters. This morning, faced with a massive global outcry and thousands of protesters ready to non-violently resist eviction (including Tria Donaldson), Brookfield Asset Management and Mayor Bloomberg backed down!

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Thousands launch mass protest in Washington, D.C. against tar sands pipeline

Canadian First Nations activists protest the Tar Sands in London, U.K., in 2009. Photo: fotdmike/Flickr

A climate-related record is about to be broken this summer, joining the others that have already been experienced so far. However, it's not in the form of the devastating heat waves, droughts, storms and torrential floods we have been seeing around the world. Consider it, instead, as a sign of hope, as Washington, D.C. hosts the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate ever seen in America.

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Tar Sands the oil industry oil sands oil pipelines keystone XL TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline
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