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Robert van Waarden, an excellent photographer and friend of DeSmogBlog, has compiled this great visual essay on Canada’s filthy tar sands to show people just a…
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Robert van Waarden, an excellent photographer and friend of DeSmogBlog, has compiled this great visual essay on Canada’s filthy tar sands to show people just a…
Continue readingOil companies and promoters. Even China is eying it. Greed and temptation of money-making.
Price: Environmental disaster of the worst kind – a deadly kind. The video below shows one obvious impact and then of course CO2 emissions and pollution of g…
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Last Friday, after applauding the House’s vote to rush a decision on TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a new campaign to boost the…
Continue readingFormer federal Conservative operative, Alykhan Velshi, is at it again. As Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s communications director, earlier this year, he stirred controversy when he used Canadian government stationery while canvassing for Pri…
Continue readingWhat a week it has been! With the backdrop of the verging-on-farcical U.S. debt credit crisis brought on by the tea-baggers in Washington, and the pieing of Rupert Murdoch, a whole lot has been going on the global warming front, and not just the extr…
Continue readingFrom CBC.ca: Canada’s energy ministers ended two days of annual talks Tuesday in the Kananaskis resort in the Alberta Rockies announcing they have agreed to work together on opening up new markets to Canadian crude oil. They also agreed to work o…
Continue readingFrom The Mark News: Energy ministers from across Canada have just returned from an all-expenses-paid tour of the tar sands, given to them by the oil companies themselves. Now, they are sitting down to debate the future of energy policy in Canada at a m…
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The much anticipated findings [pdf] from the Alberta Environmental Monitoring Panel, appointed to make recommendations on how to fix Alberta’s failin…
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Each year, in advance of United Nations (U.N.) climate discussions, governments around the world submit an inventory of their carbon emissions. This year, Canada is taki…
Continue readingOh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to … transmit electricity. Below: Brian Mason, Murray Smith.A good rule in public relations is never to let the story you tell one group stray too far from the story you tell another.A government…
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