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May 23, 2012

Is Carbon Disaster Brewing in the Northwest?

Dave Cohen, OilPrice


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Optimists and politicians like to remind us that U.S. exports are booming. Unfortunately, so are imports.

An increasingly large part of the "rosy" exports picture centres around our energy exports, which means coal exports. I was pleased to see Worse Than Keystone by Alyssa Battistoni, which appeared in Salon last Friday. Alyssa actually did some research, and provided some useful links, which always makes me happy.

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TAGGED: Hydroelectricity, Coal, Keystone XL pipeline, Pacific NOrthwest, carbon dioxide

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