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Obama Should Tell Canada's Prime Minister No Thanks on Tar Sands Expansion

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar-Sands-Oil, Alberta Tar Sands, Stephen Harper, Boreal Forest, Clean Cars, Alberta, Dirty Fuels, Canada, Green News
Frances Beinecke

My hope is that Obama will not sign on to any joint statements that will help Harper ramp up tar sands production -- a process that accelerates global warming and denudes Canada's great boreal forest.

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Ryan Alexander Jenkins Charged; Manhunt For Reality TV Star Charged In Jasmine Fiore's Death

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS and ROB GILLIES | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Jamine Fiore Murder, Ryan Alexander Jenkins, Reality TV, Jasmine Fiore, Murder, Vh1, Calgary, Alberta, Ryan Jenkins, Manhunt, Megan Wants a Millionaire, Crime, Home News

BUENA PARK, Calif. — An ex-model found stuffed in a bloodstained suitcase without fingers or teeth was so badly mutilated that authorities had t...

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The Public Option in Banking: How We Can Beat Wall Street at Its Own Game

Ellen Brown | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Fractional-Reserve-System, JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Indian Banking, Alberta, Toxic Assets, Bank of North Dakota, Bank Bonuses, China Economy, Tarp, Business News
Ellen Brown

Many people feel that some bankers are thieves stealing from the public till and should be looking at jail time. But who is there to stop their parade of outrages?

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America's Other Foreign Oil: Seeing Canada's Tar Sands Up Close

Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Oil Addiction, Oil Drilling, Fuel Efficiency, Alberta, First Nation, Canada, Clean Energy, Dirty Fuels, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Americans don't understand the environmental and human consequences of feeding our insatiable appetite for fuel from closer to home: Canada.

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Guest Blog: Dirty Candadian Gas vs America's Green Economy

Giles Slade | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Tar Sands, Oil Sands, National Geographic, Alberta, Bitumen, Green Economy, Environmental Destruction, Barack Obama, Pollution, Dirty Gas, Green Energy, Green News
Giles Slade

But replacing Arabia's tainted oil with tar sand bitumen is no pipeline to energy security. It's more like switching your family's mortgage from Countrywide Financial to Bear Stearns.

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Meteor Hits Western Canada - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Reuters | Scott Haggett | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Alberta, Green News, Saskatchewan, Environment, Meteor, Canada, Fireball, Green News

A massive ball of fire that lit up the skies over two Western Canadian provinces on Thursday evening was likely among the biggest meteor events to be ...

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NAFTA: America's Energy Solution

Diane Francis | Posted 06.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Alternative Energy, Manhattan Project for Energy, Mexico, Conservation, Obama, Mccain, Canada, U.S., Drill Bans on Federal Lands and Offshore, Democrats, Nafta, Windfall Profits Tax, Power Generation, Hybrids, Oil, Tidal Power, Fuel Efficiencies, Hydro-Electric Power, Natural Gas, Alberta, Newfoundland, Green News
Diane Francis

North America should forget a continental energy policy which will guarantee its economic pre-eminence -- but this will only work if the US imposes strict conservation and Mexico changes its oil policies immediately.

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