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          <title>B.C. Approves Partial Reopening of Mount Polley Mine Despite Major Unanswered Questions About Tailings Spill</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2015 01:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

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               Bill Bennett               </category>
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               Center Top               </category>
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               contamination               </category>
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               Greg Ritson               </category>
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               Hazeltine Creek               </category>
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               mining               </category>
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               Mount Polley               </category>
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               Mount Polley mine spill               </category>
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               permit               </category>
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               Quesnel Lake               </category>
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               Quesnel River Research Station               </category>
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               reopen               </category>
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               Richard Holmes               </category>
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               Sam Albers               </category>
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               sockeye salmon               </category>
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               tailings pond               </category>
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          <title>Canadian Government Called on to Federally Regulate Fracking</title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 20:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Derek Leahy</dc:creator>

          
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               B.C.               </category>
                              <category>
               Caleb Behn               </category>
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               chemicals               </category>
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               contamination               </category>
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               Council of Canadians               </category>
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               Emma Liu               </category>
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               fracking               </category>
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               Harper Government               </category>
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               hydraulic fracturing               </category>
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          <title>What We May Never Know About Vancouver’s English Bay Oil Spill</title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Heather Libby</dc:creator>

          
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               bitumen               </category>
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               bunker fuel               </category>
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               Canada               </category>
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               Cleanup               </category>
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               Coast Guard               </category>
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               Dr. Peter Ross               </category>
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               English Bay               </category>
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               Federal government               </category>
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               Gregor Robertson               </category>
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               James Moore               </category>
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               Kinder Morgan               </category>
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               Kits Coast Guard Stations               </category>
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               Marathassa               </category>
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               Mike Cotter               </category>
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               Penny Ballem               </category>
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               Roger Girouard               </category>
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               spill response               </category>
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               Tony Toxopeus               </category>
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               Vancouver               </category>
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               water               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Companies Illegally Dumped Toxic Fracking Chemicals in Dawson Creek Water Treatment Systems At Least Twice, Officials Report</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/companies-illegally-dumped-toxic-fracking-chemicals-dawson-creek-water-treatment-systems-twice/</link>
          <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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               B.C.               </category>
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               contamination               </category>
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               dawson creek               </category>
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               fracking               </category>
                              <category>
               Hardy Friedrich               </category>
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               hydraulic fracturing               </category>
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               illegal dumping               </category>
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               injection well               </category>
                              <category>
               Jim Chute               </category>
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               Montney Basin               </category>
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               shale gas               </category>
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               wastewater disposal               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Swimmers Warned to Avoid Ottawa River After It Rains Due to Sewage Overflows</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/swimmers-warned-avoid-ottawa-river-after-it-rains-due-sewage-overflows/</link>
          <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

          
                         <category>
               beach pollution               </category>
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               contamination               </category>
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               Gatineau               </category>
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               Homewaters Initiative               </category>
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               human health               </category>
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               MEC               </category>
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               Ottawa               </category>
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               Ottawa River               </category>
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               Ottawa River Action Plan               </category>
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               Ottawa Riverkeeper               </category>
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               sewage               </category>
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               Swim Guide               </category>
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               water               </category>
               

          
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          <title>New Campaign Spoofs Suncor&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;What Yes Can Do&amp;#8221; Green PR Blitz</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/what-yes-can-do-riffs-suncor-s-massive-green-pr-blitz/</link>
          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description></description>
          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
                         <category>
               Athabasca River               </category>
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               contamination               </category>
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               oil sands               </category>
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               oilsands               </category>
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               SumofUs               </category>
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               suncor               </category>
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               tar sands               </category>
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               water               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Sierra Club, Wilderness Committee Taking B.C. Fracking Water Case to Supreme Court Next Week</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/sierra-club-wilderness-committee-b-c-fracking-water-case-supreme-court-next-week/</link>
          <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Emma Gilchrist</dc:creator>

          
                         <category>
               BC Oil and Gas Commission               </category>
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               contamination               </category>
                              <category>
               encana               </category>
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               fracking               </category>
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               Sierra Club               </category>
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               water               </category>
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               Water Act               </category>
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               Wilderness Committee               </category>
               

          
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          <title>B.C. Government&amp;#8217;s LNG Energy Awareness Quiz Short on Facts</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-new-lng-energy-awareness-quiz-short-facts/</link>
          <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 23:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description></description>
          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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               B.C.               </category>
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               BC Liberals               </category>
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               Christy Clark               </category>
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               climate change LNG Awareness Quiz               </category>
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               contamination               </category>
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               emissions               </category>
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               export               </category>
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               first nations               </category>
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               fracking               </category>
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               hydraulic fracturing               </category>
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               LNG               </category>
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               natural gas               </category>
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               terminals               </category>
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               water               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Water Heavily Contaminated from Lac-Mégantic Disaster, Groups Show</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/water-heavily-contaminated-lac-m-gantic-disaster-groups-show/</link>
          <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 23:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description></description>
          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
                         <category>
               Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives               </category>
                              <category>
               contamination               </category>
                              <category>
               Greenpeace Canada               </category>
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               Lac Megantic               </category>
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               oil               </category>
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               Patrick Bonin               </category>
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               Quebec               </category>
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               Rail               </category>
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               Société pour vaincre la pollution               </category>
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               water               </category>
               

          
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          <title>New Study Shows Mercury Levels On the Rise in Athabasca Area</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/new-study-shows-mercury-levels-on-rise-athabasca/</link>
          <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Erika Thorkelson</dc:creator>

          
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               alberta oil sands               </category>
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               contamination               </category>
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               Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program               </category>
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               JOSM               </category>
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               Mercury               </category>
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               oilsands               </category>
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               tar sands               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Internal Documents Reveal Internal Disorder More Than A Year After Implementation of Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/internal-documents-reveal-disorder-more-than-year-after-implementation-joit-oil-sands-monitoring-program/</link>
          <pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2013 20:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description></description>
          <dc:creator>Erin Flegg</dc:creator>

          
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               Alberta               </category>
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               ATIP               </category>
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               bird eggs               </category>
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               CAPP               </category>
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               contamination               </category>
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               first nations               </category>
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               Fish               </category>
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               Harper Government               </category>
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               Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program               </category>
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               JOSM               </category>
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               Mercury               </category>
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               oilsands               </category>
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               tar sands               </category>
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               Water Contamination               </category>
               

          
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