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Keystone will create ‘cash cow on steroids’ for Koch brothers

Construction of Tar Sands pipeline could generate billions for brothers, who have heavily bankrolled climate sceptic campaigns

Canada’s tar sands could blow its 2020 climate target

Morning Summary: Canada’s expansion of tar sands deposit could double its greenhouses gases by 2020

Tar sands pipeline to be built to eastern Canada

Morning summary: With uncertainty over the Keystone XL pipeline project, TransCanada has announced it plans to built a pipeline to eastern Canada

Canada tar sands threatening biodiversity of Arctic circle wilderness

Mackenzie River Basin at great risk from climate change and a catastrophic oil spill according to a panel of nine Canadian, American and British scientists

Canada wears climate pariah label “with honour”

Despite more pleas this week for Canada to reconsider its position on climate change, the Government’s commitment to its tar sands oil resources is likely to win

Canada’s oil chief Joe Oliver slates climate expert James Hansen

Guardian: Outspoken politician says US scientist should be ‘ashamed’ of his ‘exaggerated rhetoric’ on exploitation of tar sands

Climate protesters converge on London ahead of G8 meeting

US Secretary of State John Kerry singled out as activists call for him to block Keystone XL

Hansen urges Obama to abandon Keystone XL pipeline

NASA climate science chief James Hansen says approval of tar sands pipeline would be a “crushing blow” to the climate

Canada’s First Nations lead battle against Alberta tar sands

Leader of Canada’s Indigenous peoples arrives in Europe to stop the tar sands industry which he says is destroying their way of life

EU climate chief calls on US to block Keystone pipeline

Rejecting tar sands project would represent a strong signal from Obama Administration of it’s climate change resolve

Greenpeace: 14 big oil megaprojects will set off carbon bomb

Huge new oil and gas developments would raise fossil fuel emissions by 20% and lock the world into dangerous levels of climate change, according to a report commissioned by Greenpeace