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Has RBS stopped financing the tar sands?

Officials from the European Commission see Keystone XL as an export pipeline from America to the EU.

Yesterday, the growing anti-KXL campaign received a boost from what some may see as an unexpected quarter: National Nurses United announced it was now opposed to the pipeline.

The Canadian press is reporting that an Idle No More organiser has contacted the police after receiving a package containing death threats.

These are not the words of a President talking about our addiction to oil, but an eleven year old fighting for our future. Obama’s second term inauguration speech yesterday made global headlines. But an eleven year old’s warning against the Northern Gateway pipeline in Canada is equally poignant and important.

Tomorrow at the National Press Club in Washington, academics and activists will present damning new research about the Keystone XL pipeline and the development of tar sands.

Idle No More leaders are vowing to shut down Alberta’s only major highway to the dirty tar sands.

The latest disturbing scientific research shows that cancer-causing pollutants are linked to the tar sands.

Tomorrow there is an international call to action to support First Nations in Canada whose indigenous rights are being trampled by the Harper government’s budget Bill C-45, which was passed by on 14 December.