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          <title>‘The great Canadian bailout’: Canada’s pipeline purchase clashes with vow to end fossil fuel subsidies</title>
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          <description>Trudeau’s $4.5 billion offer for Trans Mountain pipeline falls on two-year anniversary of G7 pledge to end government support of coal, oil and gas</description>
          <dc:creator>Sarah Cox</dc:creator>

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          <title>Drink, Toast, Spin: The Latest on the Wine and Pipelines Debacle</title>
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          <dc:creator>Sarah Cox</dc:creator>

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          <title>Here’s What Alberta’s Wine Boycott is Really About</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Emma Gilchrist</dc:creator>

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               George Heyman               </category>
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          <title>‘This Might Get Nasty’: Why The Kinder Morgan Stand-Off Between Alberta and B.C. is a Zero-Sum Game</title>
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          <dc:creator>James Wilt</dc:creator>

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               dilbit               </category>
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               John Horgan               </category>
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               Justin Trudeau               </category>
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               Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline               </category>
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          <title>Dams for Dilbit: How Canada’s New Hydro Dams Will Power Oil Pipelines</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>James Wilt</dc:creator>

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               alberta clipper               </category>
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               Keeyask Dam               </category>
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               Line 3               </category>
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          <title>We Need to Admit the Limitations of Science When it Comes to Pipeline Decisions</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Eric Swanson</dc:creator>

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               Justin Trudeau               </category>
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          <title>How the Spectre of Oil Trains is Deceptively Used to Push Pipelines</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>James Wilt</dc:creator>

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               David Hughes               </category>
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          <title>Secrecy Around Composition of Oilsands Dilbit Makes Effective Spill Response, Research Impossible: New Study</title>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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               Stephanie Green               </category>
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               Thom Sisk               </category>
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          <title>Canadian Scientists Say They’re Unsure What Trudeau Means When He Says ‘Science’</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 01:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

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               Aerin Jacobs               </category>
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               bitumen               </category>
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               Canadian Environmental Assessment Act               </category>
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               Environmental Assessment review               </category>
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               Evidence for Democracy               </category>
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               Kathleen Walsh               </category>
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               Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline               </category>
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          <title>Review of 9,000 Studies Finds We Know Squat About Bitumen Spills in Ocean Environments</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 20:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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          <title>Low Oil Prices, Climate Commitments Make Pipelines Economic Losers: Expert</title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>

          
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               CCPA report               </category>
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