[Ost-news] The Pew Charitable Trusts want a kinder, gentler pipeline and tarsands

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The pipeline dream lurking in Canada's wild

By Steve Kallick | December 10, 2007

ONE OF many ways to combat global warming is to replace our dirtiest, carbon-polluting fuels, especially coal and oil, with cleaner fuels like natural gas. So proponents of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, an 800-mile megaproject to tap into Canada's natural gas reserves, now say that's their plan. They want us to believe, somehow, that building this massive project through Canada's Boreal Forest wilderness will be good for the environment. Not surprisingly, a closer look at the facts suggests otherwise.

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/pew-charitable-trusts-want-kinder-gentler-pipeline-and-tarsands

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