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Why Canada’s Oil Sands Industry Wants the CO2 Tax That Harper Hates
Posted by Bloomberg: Jeremy van Loon and Andrew Mayeda on February 4th, 2013
Bloomberg: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vilified political opponents who support a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions. The oil-sands industry, Canada’s fastest growing CO2 polluter, says he’s out of step.
The contradiction of an industry seeking a new tax on itself has emerged in energy-rich Canada because producers are concerned the crude they process from tar-like sands will be barred from foreign markets for releasing more carbon in its production than competing fossil fuels.
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Comments Off on Why Canada’s Oil Sands Industry Wants the CO2 Tax That Harper HatesPressure builds for Obama to link oil sands pipelines to climate change
Posted by InsideClimate: Maria Gallucci on February 4th, 2013
InsideClimate: President Obama hasn't publicly drawn a connection between climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline, but new pressure is building on him and other officials to connect those dots.
Protests are springing up from Maine to Washington, D.C., to Oklahoma urging leaders to stop the Keystone XL and other oil sands import projects on climate change grounds. The Texas-bound Keystone XL is the biggest of many projects being proposed to connect Canada's oil sands to U.S. refineries and export ports. Protesters...
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