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- Oil sands producers stuck over a barrel: big firms forced to choose between untried technology and penalties as Obama plays nice on carbon capture, tough on emissions, Globe and Mail, 02/20/09.
- Breaking: Obama wags a finger at tar sands, The Thin Green Line @ San Francisco Chronicle, 02/19/09
- A Turning Point in the tar sands, Switchboard @ Natural Resources Defense Council, 02/19/09
- Beaver Tails and Tar Sands: climate security talks are not going to stay this sweet, Switchboard @ Natural Resources Defense Council, 02/19/09
- Obama takes his clean energy message to Canada, Switchboard @ Natural Resources Defense Council, 02/19/09
- Obama and Canada's controversial oil patch, Green Inc. @ New York Times, 02/19/09
- Press release: Natives support a North American clean green energy economy. Obama 2 Canada must address dirty oil from the tar sands, 02/19/09.
- Press release: Obama carries clean energy message to Canada, Sierra Club, 02/19/09
- Obama casts wary eye to the oilsands, Vancouver Sun, 02/19/09
- I hope Obama jumps the right way on Canada's tar sands, George Monbiot's blog @ the Guardian, 02/19/09
- Canada Trip Is Big Test of Obama Climate Policy, solve climate, 02/18/09
- INTERVIEW-NASA's Hansen concerned about Canada's oil sands, Reuters, 02/18/09
- Memo to Obama: CCS won’t make tar sands clean. Memo to all: They ain’t "oil sands", Climate Progress, 02/18/09
- Canadian protesters urge Obama to shun oil sands, Reuters, 02/18/09
- President Obama: Don’t Give Canadian Tar Sands a Free Climate Pass, Frances Beinecke/Natural Resources Defense Council, 02/18/09
- Press release: Greenpeace activists scale bridge to Welcome Obama to Canada, Greenpeace Canada, 02/18/09
- Press release: Prominent Canadian Artists, Athletes, Activists and Community Leaders to Obama: Green jobs, yes we can. Tar sands, no we can’t. (02/18/09)
- Press release: Obama Expected to Bring a Clean Energy Message to Canada, Natural Resources Defense Council, 02/18/09
- James Hansen: President's trip to Canada defines critical carbon moment, Seattle Post-Intelligencer OP-ED, 02/17/09
- First Nations sponsor anti-oilsands ad in USA Today, Calgary Herald/Edmonton Journal, 02/17/09
- Does the U.S. need tar sands oil? Our analysis shows we don't, NRDC's Switchboard, 02/17/09
- Obama message to Canada: clean energy is best, NRDC's Switchboard, 02/17/09
- Canada’s ‘Dirty’ Tar Sands to Test Obama’s Green-Energy Goals, Bloomberg News, 02/17/09
- Joris Voorhoeve: Draw a line on tar sands, Minneapolis Star-Tribune OP-ED, 02/17/09
- Rest of Canada would suffer if oilsands were to get emissions deal: study, Canadian Press, 02/16/09
- Green agenda of Canada, U.S. out of sync, Canwest News Service, 02/15/09
- Eco-group desperately seeking Obama, Times-Colonist, 02/14/09.
- Obama may be tough on Canada's tar sands, Nature News, 02/13/09
- America is getting serious about coal – Canada needs to get serious about tar sands, NRDC's Switchboard, 02/13/09.
- Tar sands update, Mother Jones, 02/13/09.
- Obama fends off neighbor-lady's advances, Huffington Post, 02/13/09
- Alberta's Oil Sands Just Got Dirtier:
New Policy Could Lead to 66 Per Cent Increase in Greenhouse Gas Pollution, Pembina Institute, 02/13/09.
- Contact, National Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, 02/11/09. (NOTE: program takes a minute to load)
- Don't buy our 'dirty' crude, green lobbyists urge Obama, Calgary Herald, 02/11/09.
- Ottawa counters 'dirty oil' campaign, Globe and Mail, 02/11/09.
- Green groups begin campaign to tell Obama about Alberta's 'dirtiest oil', CBC.ca, 02/10/09.
- Green groups to dog Obama during Canada visit, Financial Post, 02/10/09
- Sierra Club sending Obama strong anti-oilsands message, Canada.com, 02/10/09
- Hill heap: Green(ish) news from around the capitol, grist, 02/10/09