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Ottawa CitizenCity's next plan of attack: Oil the eggs of Canada geeseOttawa CitizenOil cuts off the flow of oxygen to the embryo and kills it while tricking the parents into thinking the egg is normal. A drone (a remote-control helicopter) will be bac
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Wall Street JournalOil and Gas Turn Their Backs on Coal as Climate Deal NearsABC NewsChemistry books say there are three fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. Lately you could get the impression that coal is the only one. As a global agreement to rein i
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CBC.caOil industry pushing for carbon tax in AlbertaCBC.caThe biggest players in Canada's oil and gas industry are urging Alberta's government to step up its environmental policies and introduce a carbon tax. Alberta already has carbon pricing, but
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RTUS Says Decade-Old Gulf Oil Leak Could Last Another CenturyABC NewsFor more than a decade, oil has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico where a hurricane toppled a drilling company's platform off the coast of Louisiana. Now the federal government is
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Nature World NewsMontana Oil Spill Renews Worries Over Pipeline SafetyABC NewsA second large oil spill into Montana's Yellowstone River in less than four years is reviving questions about oversight of the nation's aging pipeline infrastructure. Inv
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The EconomistGreenland and oilThe EconomistTHE collapsing price of crude over the past six months has been a boon for oil-importing countries and a curse for oil-exporting ones. But in one corner of the north Atlantic, it is frustrating hopes of becoming a
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NPR (blog)Some Oil Recovered From Broken Pipeline After River SpillABC NewsBridger Pipeline Co. spokesman Bill Salvin said Wednesday only a "very small" amount of oil has been siphoned from the river itself. Company officials and government regul
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