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How Stephen Harper’s old schoolmate helped kill the Keystone XL pipeline
Posted by Canadian Press: Alexander Panetta on November 7th, 2015
Canadian Press: One of the great ironies of the interminable saga of Keystone XL is that two of its principal antagonists were unaware that they went to grade school together. In the midst of one of the biggest environmental fights in American politics, the best-known activist on one side learned of his distant connection to the most powerful politician on the other: Stephen Harper. So these old grade-school alumni duked it out from a distance as the pipeline escalated from a regional land dispute to international...
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Comments Off on How Stephen Harper’s old schoolmate helped kill the Keystone XL pipelineAnti-Oil Sands Activists in the U.S. Are Getting Visits from the FBI
Posted by Canadian Press: Alexander Panetta on February 9th, 2015
Canadian Press: Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States - knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members.
The visitors are federal agents.
Opponents of Canadian oil say they've been contacted by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to Canada's oilsands.
A lawyer working with the protesters says he's personally aware of a dozen people having been contacted in...
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