CANADA TAR SANDS OIL

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Obama's Positive Flip and Romney's Negative Flop
By Bill McKibben, Contributor
Author, 'The End of Nature' among others; Co-founder, 350.org
Now that Obama has at least temporarily blocked Keystone XL, now that his team has promised to consider climate change as a factor in any final decision on the pipeline's eventual fate, he can campaign on the issue. And in many ways, it may prove a surprise winner.
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If Brazil Has to Guard Its Rainforest, Why Does Canada/U.S. Get to Burn Its Tar Sands?
By Bill McKibben, Contributor
Author, 'The End of Nature' among others; Co-founder, 350.org
Shouldn't Canada feel the same kind of responsibility to keep carbon safely in the ground that Brazil feels to keep its trees rooted? Absolutely.
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Avatar-sands and the Oily Sky People
By Kevin Grandia, Contributor
President, Spake Media House
Environmental groups are picking the blockbuster James Cameron film Avatar to win the Best Picture Oscar, and not just because it is one of the coolest movies ever made.
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Canadian Tar Sands or US Biofuel -- Guess Which One the US Government Prefers
By Bob Dinneen, Contributor
President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA)
Just when we thought policymakers were serious about climate change, the State Department approves construction of a new petroleum pipeline with the sole purpose of importing tar sands oil to the U.S.