Keystone XL and the next frontier in fossil fuel risks

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President Obama is the latest global figure to weigh in on the increasingly tangible risk of stranded carbon assets. But will investors buy in?

When President Barack Obama announced last week that he would reject the $8bn Keystone XL oil pipeline proposed to run 1,179 miles through a central artery of the United States, he included one particularly...

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