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During the weeks leading up to a decision by the U.S. government over whether to allow a Canadian company to construct a 1,700-mile pipeline to carry tar-sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico, environmentalists and clean-energy advocates mounted a huge opposition campaign. But they were joined in their resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline by two public figures that you might not immediately associate with energy policy: the Dalai Lama of Tibet and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa.
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Brune, M. (2013). Bending Toward Justice: The Search for Sustainable Energy. In: Madhavan, G., Oakley, B., Green, D., Koon, D., Low, P. (eds) Practicing Sustainability. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4349-0_46
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