Emails between lobbyists for the TransCanada pipeline -- which, if given the go-ahead by the government will move oil from Canada's oil sands to the Gulf Coast -- and State Department officials show a "warm and collaborative relationship," The New York Times' Elisabeth Rosenthal reports. Environmental activists have been protesting the proposed pipeline for weeks, and the group Friends of the Earth, which got the emails through a Freedom of Information Act request, say they show "complicity" between the government and TransCanada.
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