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          <title>‘Exhaustive’ oil lobby threatens to derail promised tanker ban on B.C.’s north coast</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description>A B.C. senator lashes out as the unelected Senate stalls a long-awaited bill to formalize a 34-year oil tanker moratorium. Time is running out for Parliament to pass Bill C-48, which Coastal First Nations say is essential to protecting their economy</description>
          <dc:creator>Sarah Cox</dc:creator>

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          <title>North Coast Oil Tanker Ban Won’t Actually Ban Tankers Full of Oil Products on B.C.’s North Coast</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2017 23:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

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          <title>Q&amp;#038;A: Meet the Former Federal Environment Minister Who First Instigated the B.C. Tanker Ban</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Christopher Pollon</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>How B.C. Quietly Accepted the Harper-Era Federal Review of Kinder Morgan Pipeline</title>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 20:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>James Wilt</dc:creator>

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               Christy Clark               </category>
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          <title>Woodfibre LNG, Ajax Mine Dropped Big Bucks in B.C.&amp;#8217;s Local  Elections</title>
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          <dc:creator>Emma Gilchrist</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>Oil Tankers Pose Serious Risk to Under-Studied Minke Whales Off B.C. Coast, New Research Shows</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>DFO Slams Kinder Morgan&amp;#8217;s Shoddy Analysis  of Oil Tankers&amp;#8217; Impact on Whales</title>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>Energy Executive Quits Trans Mountain Pipeline Review, Calls NEB Process A ‘Public Deception&amp;#8217;</title>
          <link>https://thenarwhal.ca/energy-executive-quits-trans-mountain-pipeline-review-calls-neb-process-public-deception/</link>
          <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Emma Gilchrist</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>Arctic Gateway Pipeline: Alberta Looks Far, Far North to Potential Oilsands Export Route</title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>Oil in Tankers Not Our Responsibility, Says Kinder Morgan, Recalling Exxon Valdez Lessons</title>
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          <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>

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          <title>Exclusive: Former Enbridge Lobbyist John Paul Fraser Named New Head of B.C. Government Communications Branch</title>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

          
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