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          <title>What You Need to Know About NAFTA’s Investigation into Oilsands Tailings Leaks</title>
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          <title>How to Fix the National Energy Board, Canada&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;Captured Regulator&amp;#8217;</title>
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          <title>Canada’s Climate Action Called ‘Inadequate’ at UN Climate Talks in Marrakech</title>
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          <title>Ministerial Panel on Kinder Morgan Pipeline Actually Nails It</title>
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          <title>Strange Bedfellows: Alberta Brings Former Adversaries Together for New Oilsands Advisory Group</title>
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          <title>Why Alberta’s Climate Plan Won’t Stop the Battle Over Oil Pipelines</title>
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          <title>Ontario Energy Board Report Highlights Risks of Energy East Pipeline in New Report</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

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          <title>UVic Report Calling for Updates to Charities Law Creates Stir</title>
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