The Day - A pipeline predicament for Obama | By JULIET EILPERIN and STEVEN MUFSON

In September 2010, four unions - the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada; the Laborers International Union of North America; the Teamsters; and the International Union of Operating Engineers - reached a tentative project labor agreement with TransCanada to build the pipeline, which is now finalized. They say the project will directly generate as many as 20,000 high-wage jobs for their members.

"It doesn't cost the government two cents," said United Association General President William Hite, whose union represents plumbers and pipefitters in the United States and Canada. "We promote it every chance we get."

Occupy Wall Street protests brutality; crowd small | Reuters

(Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street protesters marched through lower Manhattan on Saturday to rally against police brutality, but the crowd was a fraction of the 5,000 who turned out a week ago when protests sprouted around the globe.
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About 300 people occupied the south side of Union Square, surrounded by dozens of police officers and police vans along the park's perimeter on 14th Street. Socialist and Marxist newspaper hawkers mingled with high school students and senior citizens and self-described hippies.

India Announces 300 Years Worth Of Coal Reserves To Be Tapped

The International Coal Conference 2011 was told on Saturday that the Thar region of Sindh province is endowed with mammoth coal (lignite) reserves estimated to be 175 billion tonnes which can produce 100,000MW of electricity for next 300 years and can be a key to energy security and economic prosperity

Peter Forster: Look To Adaptation, Not Alarmism

The moral issues surrounding UK climate policy, as well as the underlying scientific and economic issues, are much more complex than is usually acknowledged. It is time for the Churches to recognise this, and to lead a debate which helps our society to a more sensible set of policies.