ENERGY - The Dept of Energy's other hand facilitating tar sands development in Alaska

A bunch of my friends are up in arms about the Keystone XL pipeline, and the "carbon bomb" it would be if built. Why carbon bomb? Because it is a vast store of hydrocarbon fossil fuels, and building the pipeline would facilitate extraction of those fuels. There's another deposit of tar sands not too far away, in Alaska's North Slope. The U.S. Dept of Energy (DoE) just signed a Memorandum of

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