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          <title>New Water Use Restrictions Highlight Influence of Climate on Oilsands, Need for Stronger Rules</title>
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          <title>Group Asks New Alberta Government to Review Oilsands Water Usage Amid Extreme Wild Fires</title>
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          <title>New Campaign Spoofs Suncor&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;What Yes Can Do&amp;#8221; Green PR Blitz</title>
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          <title>Deadly Quebec Oil Train Disaster and Athabasca River Spill On Same Day as Tar Sands Healing Walk</title>
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          <title>Fort McMurray Flooding Emphasizes Tar Sands&amp;#8217; Threat to Mackenzie River Basin</title>
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          <dc:creator>Stephen Leahy</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>Fort McMurray, Home to 176 Square km of Tar Sands Tailings Ponds, Overwhelmed by Floods</title>
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          <dc:creator>Heather Libby and Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>Federal Study Reignites Pollution Concern in Expanding Tar Sands Region</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>Toxic Tar Sands: Scientists Document Spread of Pollution, Water Contamination, Effects on Fish</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>&amp;#8220;Stephen Harper Hates Science&amp;#8221;: Federal Scientists Muzzled to Protect Tar Sands Reputation</title>
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          <title>What is Harper Afraid Of?</title>
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