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Canadian Government Targets "Anti-Petroleum Movement" As A Growing Security Threat
New legislation would expand the ability of government agencies to infiltrate environmental groups on the suspicion that they are promoting civil disobedience or other criminal acts to oppose resource projects.
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Anti-Tar Sands Activists Are Getting FBI Visits
Opponents of Canadian oil say they’ve been contacted, at home and through calls and texts, by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to the oil sands.
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Keystone XL Pipeline Would Destroy Our Native Lands – This Is Why We Fight
The Oceti Sakowin people are mobilizing a resistance that could be the game changer in the fight to stop the proposed Keystone pipeline and help shut down the tar sand projects in northern Alberta.
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Much of World's Fossil Fuel Reserve Must Stay Buried to Prevent Climate Change, Study Says
The new research published in Nature identifies for the first time which reserves must not be burned to keep global temperature rise under 2 degrees C.
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White House Vows to Veto Keystone XL Pipeline
Hours after supporters of the bipartisan bill announced its introduction on Tuesday, the White House said for the first time that President Obama would veto it.
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Oil Trains Are Hazardous – So Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Helping Fund Them?
Here’s the reality — we don’t need new pipelines and we don’t need oil by rail.
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First Nation Firekeepers Defeat Kinder Morgan on Burnaby Mountain After Monthlong Struggle
If the company comes back for more testing, or eventually to lay down pipe on the mountain, what happened last month could prove only to be the first spark of resistance.
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Dozens Arrested as Tar Sands Pipeline Protest Grows In British Columbia
Standing on the side of the protesters, Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan vowed to wage war against fossil fuel giant Kinder Morgan.
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Carbon Conspiracy: Proposed Keystone XL Contractor Responsible for Melting Asian Glaciers
The finding comes in the aftermath of the U.S. House of Representatives voting to authorize the Alberta to Cushing, Oklahoma Keystone XL northern leg, with a vote in the U.S. Senate to follow on November.
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Now Is the Moment To Win the Battle Over the Tar Sands
"Peoples' movements will either succeed in transforming our economic and political systems to build a new world, or we will burn with the old one."
