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TransCanada has no choice but to hit back at glib White House view on...

Claudia Cattaneo: President Obama’s glib views on the Keystone XL project are leaving TransCanada with no choice but to crank up the pressure — or die trying

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With Keystone XL court win in Nebraska, Obama is now losing the process battle

Claudia Cattaneo: The Nebraska Supreme Court ruling adds to many Keystone XL process wins — and is another big setback for KXL opponents who seized any roadblock to keep the pipeline from going ahead

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U.S. Senate passes Keystone XL pipeline bill, defying White House

The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate passed a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, setting up a conflict with President Barack Obama who has promised a veto

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Terence Corcoran: TransCanada CEO Russ Girling's heroic battle with Obama

The man is standing up to the most powerful politician in the world fighting a battle to build a pipeline opposed by some of the most influential green political twisters on the planet

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Obama to quietly kill off Keystone XL bill, White House confirms

A spokesman for U.S. President Barack Obama has reaffirmed that the White House plans to veto the bill, passed earlier this month by the Republican-controlled Congress

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Obama unlikely to deliver Keystone XL decision during Canadian election

Don't expect U.S. President Barack Obama to deliver a Keystone XL verdict between mid-June and mid-October for fear of being seen as interfering in the upcoming election

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South Dakota legal wranglings adds to Keystone XL pipeline headaches

TransCanada was expecting South Dakota's re-certification of the pipeline would be a routine procedure. Instead the process has dragged on for more than eight months

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Debunking Obama's oft-repeated claims that Keystone XL would only ship...

One Montana landowner has already got a deal to be paid up to $1,800 an acre by TransCanada, plus bonuses, so he’s a little perplexed to hear the president say there’d be no U.S. oil involved

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Even Keystone XL foes are sick of waiting for Obama to decide pipeline's fate

'We don’t understand what the White House is waiting for,' said one activist, with others fretting the delay is taking away resources from other environmental fights

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Jack M. Mintz: Time for NAFTA-plus

It is about time. A significant candidate looking to become the U.S. President after 2016 is talking about Canada. Jeb Bush’s comment on the need to better the Canadian-U.S. relationship is on the mark

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Oilpatch ripe for deals as not all companies 'are going to make it': E&Y

There is considerable interest by private equity and foreign capital in particular, who remain attracted to the Canadian market

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Peter Foster: Obama on thin ice in pushing 'legacy' climate agenda in Alaska

Obama was trying to sell draconian climate action at a gathering where most of the participants’ main concerns were the possible opening of the Arctic that would boost emissions

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Lawrence Solomon: Yesterday's Man

Trudeau’s coming rule, touted in the press as 'a brave new era,' should more accurately be seen as a reversion to the bygone

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Slamming Obama's Keystone decision on Twitter

'A national embarrassment': Obama is getting slammed on Twitter about Keystone

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Peter Foster: Trudeau's Keystone baptism by fire

Canada's new PM issued a parallel statement while the U.S. president was busy denying the KXL extension, but Trudeau was made to look like a mere courtier to Obama’s megalomanic pretensions to roll...

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Peter Foster: TransCanada’s Keystone legal action may lead to airing of state...

No cross-border pipeline has ever been turned down in the cause of saving the world

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Obama seeks new $10-per-barrel oil tax in budget proposal to fund clean...

Obama will propose a US$10 per barrel tax on oil in his fiscal 2017 budget to finance self- driving cars, public transit, railroads and other transportation improvements, the White House said

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Terence Corcoran: Trudeau's charm offensive meets American anger

Terence Corcoran: When Canadians drink their state dinner toasts Thursday night, they should bear Obama’s anti-free-trade message in mind

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While Trudeau got attention, it’s Obama who ran the climate change victory lap

Claudia Cattaneo: The two countries announced climate change initiatives to show they are united in the fight to contain climate change. But the measures are marginal

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At this year’s South by Southwest, big issues and futuristic ideas are taking...

'This year's festival has been more about connectivity, immersive experiences … rather than past years, which were more about new launches,' a SXSW veteran said

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Lawrence Solomon: Americans are finally overthrowing political correctness...

With the Republicans’ ascension to power, the taboo edifice is about to collapse, particularly since Trump and his close advisers are outspoken opponents of political correctness

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Kevin Libin: Beware of desperate politicians seeking 'environmental legacies'

As Canadians — and now Americans — are learning, there is little more dangerous than a political leader with nothing to lose

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Jack Mintz: How Obama missed the biggest gift to American energy independence...

American energy independence will ultimately have a profound impact on world political developments. It’s too late to be Obama's legacy, but it could become Trump's

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William Watson: The fatal temptation of Obama's presidency was exploiting the...

Americans’ yearning for post-partisanship gave the new president a partisan majority so impressive it created the partisan temptation

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Trump says TransCanada was bored after KXL denial — in fact the company had...

“Now he’s doing nothing, calling his wife, ‘Hello darling, I’m a little bored. You know that pipeline project that has killed us, that has killed our company?” Trump said, speaking as if he were Girling.

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Watergate 2.0: Why Donald Trump might already be a lame duck president

Diane Francis: Revelations that FBI is assessing whether the Trump team colluded with the Russians is casting a cloud over President Trump, the Republicans, and the U.S. economy

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The Trudeau government finds a good idea for actually making pipeline...

The NEB Modernization Panel should be commended for recommending that the traditional NEB process be transformed into a two-step process

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Lawrence Solomon: Why the Trump economy keeps on winning

With all the chaos in the United States, it’s easy to miss the fact that Trump, and especially the Trump economy, just keep on winning

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Lawrence Solomon: The corruption of environmental regulation goes down the...

EPA board members have for years been pocketing jaw-dropping grants from the very agency they’ve been advising

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Hydro-Quebec CEO calls for a national energy conversation (just don't call it...

Tough sell for many still irked by the National Energy Policy of the 1980s, but Sophie Brochu has the experience and smarts to get it started

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Keystone XL benefits for U.S. consumers, workers nominal: Obama

'There is very little impact - nominal impact - on U.S. gas prices, what the average American consumer cares about,' Obama told reporters

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What new sanctions mean for the Russian energy sector

"This bill could mark the first step on the path to replicating the Iranian sanctions architecture."

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Keystone XL pipeline suspense lingers as White House resists outright veto...

As the long-running saga over the Keystone XL pipeline enters a critical phase, U.S. President Barack Obama is allowing suspense to linger for at least a few more days

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White House: Obama would veto Keystone XL approval bill

The White House said Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama would veto a bill approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that Congress plans to vote on in the coming weeks

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Peter Foster: Obama, Suzuki and cooked heating stats

Chef Obama and Sous Chef Suzuki take to stirring in junk science data

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Keystone XL bill expected to pass in U.S. Senate Thursday before facing Obama...

The U.S. Senate will likely pass a bill approving the long-pending Keystone XL oil pipeline on Thursday, a measure the White House has said President Barack Obama would veto.

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U.S. EPA's Keystone review links Canadian oilsands to higher carbon emissions

The EPA's conclusion gives President Barack Obama reason to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, one environmental group said

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Obama vetoes Keystone XL bill, but White House says pipeline's approval still...

Obama issued the third veto of his presidency Tuesday to reject legislation that would allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built

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Obama's veto of Keystone XL bill is a slap in Canada's face

Claudia Cattaneo: Canada has championed the pipeline for years and did everything to get it approved, only to be led through a maze of roadblocks by its supposed best ally

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Canada's 'extraordinarily dirty' oil extraction is reason for Keystone XL...

'The way that you get the oil out in Canada is an extraordinarily dirty way of extracting oil… there are always risks in piping a lot of oil through the country'

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Obama's newly harsh tone on Keystone XL seen signaling rejection of pipeline...

While the White House insists Obama hasn’t made up his mind yet on Keystone XL, some analysts say his rhetorical shift suggests otherwise

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Keystone XL's final blow from Barack Obama could come by Labour Day weekend

Claudia Cattaneo: As if oilpatch conditions weren’t bad enough, the latest in Washington is that Obama will finally deny a permit to the pipeline next Thursday or Friday, when many are out of town

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TransCanada Corp vows to find a way to get Keystone XL built, remains...

Immediately after U.S. President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline Friday, the company that has been trying to build it for seven years vowed to find a way to complete the project

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U.S. union boss slams Obama for being 'hypocrite' in Keystone XL pipeline...

With oil train explosions becoming a weekly occurrence in the U.S., safe oil transportation should come before politics, said Sean McGarvey, president of North America's Building Trades Unions

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Philip Cross : The election of Donald Trump is a repudiation of Barack Obama

The billionaire, who openly bragged about being rich and not paying taxes, has set the stage for rejection of Obama's climate change and inequality mantras

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Kevin Libin: Obama just nailed down his legacy as a cynical, class-warfare...

During the final address of his tenure, the president returned to his favourite battleground for social division: pitting the masses against the one per cent

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Kevin Libin: The only leader left who can expose the pointlessness of the...

The empty posturing of the UN's climate campaign is well known by now, but it might finally get called out for it by the most powerful leader in the world, President Donald Trump

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Lawrence Solomon: Trump finally ends the undemocratic autocracy of Obama’s...

Thwarted by the legislative branch of the U.S. government, Obama decided on one-man rule

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Peter Foster: Obama just wiped his shoes on the Maple Leaf, and Canadians...

What brand of sado-masochism would lead Albertans to give 'a rock star welcome' to the man significantly responsible for the desperate state of the Canadian oil industry?

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Canadian companies shoot for the stars (literally). Next up: the moon, maybe...

Virtual reality gurus from Montreal, precision camera whizzes from Manitoba boldly go where no Canadian has gone before

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