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          <description>Using artificial lakes and a simulated pipeline leak, scientists observe how diluted bitumen reacts in water</description>
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          <title>Canada should rethink unproven, dangerous chemical ‘cleanup’ of marine oil spills</title>
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          <description>Canada quietly made way for the use of a chemical dispersant, known as Corexit, in the event of an oil spill in water — despite a growing body of research documenting the hazards of doing so</description>
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          <title>Ottawa’s call for new science review says a lot about Trans Mountain safety claims</title>
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          <description>In the absence of sound science on the risks of the pipeline, government has a duty to delay construction, and err on the side of coastal protection and climate progress</description>
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          <title>Pipeline Spills 290,000 Litres of Crude Oil Emulsion in Northern Alberta</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

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          <title>As Arctic Opens to Shipping, Communities Scramble for Oil Spill Response Training</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Jimmy Thomson</dc:creator>

                    <category> Investigation </category>
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               adventure canada               </category>
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          <title>‘We’re Under Assault’: Feds Quietly Approve Deepwater Oil Drilling Off Nova Scotia</title>
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          <dc:creator>James Wilt</dc:creator>

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               Catherine McKenna               </category>
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          <title>‘No World-Class Spill Response Here’: Heiltsuk First Nation Pursues Lawsuit One Year After Tug Disaster</title>
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          <dc:creator>Jimmy Thomson</dc:creator>

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               Bella Bella               </category>
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               Center Top               </category>
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               Heiltsuk First Nation               </category>
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               Indigenous               </category>
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               Kirby Corporation               </category>
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               Nathan E Stewart               </category>
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          <title>Why We&amp;#8217;re Taking Canada to Court Over That Promise of &amp;#8216;World-Class&amp;#8217; Oil Spill Response</title>
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          <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>

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               Heiltsuk               </category>
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               Kirby Corporation               </category>
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               Marilyn Slett               </category>
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          <title>‘Nothing Has Changed’: B.C.’s Botched Oil Spill Response Haunts First Nation</title>
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          <dc:creator>Aurora Tejeida</dc:creator>

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               diesel spill               </category>
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          <title>Alberta’s Pipeline Regulation a ‘Facade’: Experts</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>James Wilt</dc:creator>

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               Alberta               </category>
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          <title>Alberta Regulator Failing to Accurately Record Oil Spills: New Study</title>
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