Agence France-Presse: Hundreds of environmentalists and other activists in Canada made their websites go dark to protest planned measures to facilitate oil pipeline construction. The groups accuse the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper of trying to silence opponents of exploitation of Alberta's tar sands, the third-largest oil reserves in the world, through new environmental legislation it is pushing through Parliament. The measure, included in a budget bill, allows the federal government to...
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