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		<title>Why The XL Pipeline Will Not Lower Gas Prices</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/03/15/why-the-xl-pipeline-will-not-lower-gas-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Canada produces about 2.8 million barrels of crude oil per day, much more than it needs.  Most of that comes from the country’s western provinces –primarily Alberta.  But Canada’s industrial and population centers are primarily in the eastern part of the country. Canada’s eastern provinces are right now importing European oil.  It would seem logical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we don&#8217;t need the XL Pipeline</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/03/04/why-we-dont-need-the-xl-pipeline/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/03/04/why-we-dont-need-the-xl-pipeline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed XL Pipeline is a pipeline that would bring Canadian tarsands oil across the Midwest and into Texas.  In a previous post I pointed out some of the environmental harm that comes from the tarsands operation itself &#8211; in other words, the local harm that is being done in Alberta, Canada by the mining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporations want the rights of people, but the responsibilities of nobody.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/02/25/corporations-want-the-rights-of-people-but-the-responsibilities-of-nobody/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/02/25/corporations-want-the-rights-of-people-but-the-responsibilities-of-nobody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BEAT has been arguing that the biggest environmental problem we face is corporate influence in government.  It&#8217;s the one issue that makes all other issues intractable.  A recent  Supreme Court decision that ruled in part that corporations are people has made the situation much worse.  But now, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tar Sands, The Pipeline, And Climate</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/02/20/alberta-tar-sands/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/02/20/alberta-tar-sands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past year or so, there’s been a lot of discussion about the Alberta tar sands project and about the proposed XL Pipeline that would carry oil from that project to Texas.  My wife Jane and I were concerned enough to travel to Washington D.C. to participate in two demonstrations aimed at stopping this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Core Of The Problem (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/23/the-core-of-the-problem-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/23/the-core-of-the-problem-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog, I pointed out that the wages of the average worker in this country have been dropping precipitously since 1980 despite increased worker productivity, that corporate profits have been soaring, and that CEOs are keeping these record profits for themselves with little to no sign of any “trickle down” to workers. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Core Of The Problem</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/20/the-core-of-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/20/the-core-of-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has never been easy advocating for the environment, but these days it’s especially difficult for BEAT. It seems that every regulation protecting the environment is under attack. Every attempt to clean up environmental pollution is met with resistance. Protecting rare and endangered species annoys the real-estate industry and the lobbies representing developers. Trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whale says &#8220;Thank You!&#8221; to rescuers.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/08/18/whale-says-thank-you-to-rescuers/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/08/18/whale-says-thank-you-to-rescuers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this video on YouTube.  Please watch it to the end.  What a testimony to the value of helping wildlife!]]></description>
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		<title>Streamlining regulations is a double-edged sword.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/08/12/streamlining-regulations-is-a-double-edged-sword/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/08/12/streamlining-regulations-is-a-double-edged-sword/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent story on an environmental page has me concerned.  The story on “Climate Progress” was making the point that small hydro generating stations could be viable if it weren’t for all the red tape imposed by regulatory agencies.  Most of the regulatory agencies cited were state and federal environmental regulatory agencies. I’ve heard the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are our priorities?</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/07/15/where-are-our-priorities/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/07/15/where-are-our-priorities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last October, DuPont, the same chemical company that invented chlorofluorocarbons, began marketing a new, “environmentally friendly” lawn chemical called Imprelis.  You may not have heard of it because only licensed professionals can apply it to your lawn.  Hooray!  An environmentally friendly herbicide!  Well, that’s how it was marketed anyway. In late May, the reports started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GE: How can this be happening?</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/07/14/ge-how-can-this-be-happening/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/07/14/ge-how-can-this-be-happening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GE/PCBs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I’m writing this, my country is dangerously close to defaulting on its debts for the first time in its history.  Standard and Poor says that if this happens, it will lower the country’s credit rating from AAA to D.  We’re in hard economic times and we have to make some tough decisions.  Legislators have [...]]]></description>
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