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Oil & Gas News (2016)

Date yyyy-mm-dd	Posted By	Article Link	Comment
2016-12-13	NYTimes.com	Reversing Course, E.P.A. Says Fracking Can Contaminate Drinking Water	Coral Davenport
2016-12-10	Economist.com	Big Oil should prepare for the lash of market forces
2016-11-18	CNN	Mammoth Texas oil discovery biggest ever in USA	Seve Visser - Midland Basin, Wolfcamp Shale area, Permian Basin
2016-11-08	680 News	Liberals name five-person panel to overhaul mandate of National Energy Board	Bruce Cheadle
2016-10-25	Centre for International Governance Innovation	The Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels in Canada	Jeff Rubin
2016-09-23	DemocracyNow.org	50 Tribes & First Nations Sign Treaty to Fight Tar Sands Pipelines	AO News – First Nations
2016-07-22	CTV News	Booms not containing oil spill in North Saskatchewan River	The Canadian Press - Husky Energy AO News - Oil & Gas - Spills
2016-06-03	EcoWatch / DeSmog Blog	New Federal Report Shows Dimock Water Was Unsafe to Drink After All	Sharon Kelly AO News – Oil, Gas & Water
2016-05-23	NY Times	The Sand Mines That Ruin Farmland	Nancy C. Loeb
2016-05-19	Theobserver.ca	Plans for natural gas on island were announced a year ago	David Gough - Walpole Island
2016-05-08	MSN.com	Alberta's `Vicious' Wildfires Spread to Suncor Oil-Sands Site	Robert Tuttle and Rebecca Penty
2016-05-03	CBC News	Grand River spill a 'wake-up call' to Waterloo region	Melanie Ferrier
2016-05-03	Global News	All of Fort McMurray evacuated as wildfire intensifies	Emily Mertz, Phil Heidenreich and Caley Ramsay AO News - Alberta
2016-05-01	ABC 13 (USA)	Flooding Flushes Oil, Chemicals into Texas Rivers
2016-05-01	Two Row Times	Unknown contaminants spill into Grand River near Kitchener	Nahnda Garlow - Louisette Lanteigne
2016-05-01	Youtube / Louisette Lanteigne	Grand River Oil Spill May 1 2016	Louisette Lanteigne - Kitchener
2016-04-11	National Post	John Ivison: Trudeau convinced that pipeline strategy must be top priority	John Ivison
2016-03-29	Globe and Mail	Study confirms link between fracking, earthquakes in Western Canada	Mark Hume AO News – Earthquakes
2016-01-19	Financial Post	Canadian oil exports to U.S. reaches highest level ever, as shale production falls	Yadullah Hussain
2016-01-12	CBC News Edmonton	Fox Creek fracking operation closed indefinitely after earthquake	- 4.3 magnitude earthquake 12‑Jan-2016 at 11:27am - Repsol Oil & Gas

"The facts are we will not go ahead with any project unless it's safe for Canadians and safe for the environment." Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources (article)

For more information see:

- AO Oil & Gas News (2017)

- AO Oil & Gas News (2015)

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APPENDIX A

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APPENDIX B

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APPENDIX C