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          <title>Trudeau Just Approved a Giant Carbon Bomb in B.C.</title>
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          <title>Has Clean Energy&amp;#8217;s Time Finally Come in Canada?</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Derek Leahy</dc:creator>

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          <title>Christy Clark’s Hand-Picked Climate Team Voices Frustration at B.C.’s Lack of Climate Leadership in Open Letter</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

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               Clean Energy Canada               </category>
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          <title>B.C., Canada’s Carbon Tax Champion, Criticized for Lack of Climate Leadership at COP21 in Paris</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

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          <title>Job Growth in Canada&amp;#8217;s Booming Clean Energy Sector Outpaced Every Other Sector in 2013: Report</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Emma Gilchrist</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>Here’s Why Canada Needs Federal Carbon Pricing Leadership</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Derek Leahy</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>Clean Energy Provided More Jobs Last Year Than Oilsands: Report</title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Chris Rose</dc:creator>

          
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               Building Clean Energy Fund               </category>
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               Harper Government               </category>
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          <title>Report: Renewables Break into Mainstream Energy Market</title>
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          <dc:creator>Chris Rose</dc:creator>

          
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               clean energy               </category>
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          <title>New Report Says Kitimat Airshed Can &amp;#8220;Accommodate&amp;#8221; Increased Industrial Pollutants</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>B.C. Business Community Slams &amp;#8216;Astronomical&amp;#8217; Cost of Building Site C Dam</title>
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               Association of Major Power Customers of B.C.               </category>
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