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To save the planet, strike a deal with Big Oil

source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6930402.ece#ci...

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Lisa Murkowski, is the senior Republican senator for the 49th state and a more powerful politician than Sarah Palin will ever be. Murkowski is an ardent advocate of looser restrictions on routing oil pipelines through US national parks and drilling for oil on the US continental shelf. She is against the climate change legislation that is stalled in the US Senate. It is thanks to people like her that the US will not have a carbon cap-and-trade Bill by the time the Copenhagen conference opens next month, and it is the lack of such a Bill, more than any other single factor, that has forced world leaders to abandon their long-held goal of using Copenhagen to adopt a binding international successor to the Kyoto Protocol. As a Plan B the US has now said it will bring a non-binding national carbon target to Copenhagen, but son of Kyoto will have to wait.

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