In my travels on Twitter (sorry, X) this morning, I saw this, and it raises more questions than it answers: This is a “look, it works!” statement. We had already proven that CCS was possible a decade earlier. 8,000,000 tonnes sounds like a very large number – but that works
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Politics and its Discontents: The Will Rogers Of Politics
Despite all of the green virtue-signaling that comes from Ottawa on a regular basis, those who follow such things know that it is largely empty rhetoric that hides some very, very inconvenient truths. On the one hand, there never seems to be sufficient funds to implement meaningful programs that would improve
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Will Vancouver sue big oil?
I recently posted about the increasing number of lawsuits filed against corporations and government by citizens affected by climate change. One case to watch was initiated—where else?—on our west coast. In July, Vancouver’s city council took preliminary steps toward supporting a lawsuit against the world’s five largest oil and gas
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Big Oil’s bad week
As I have said elsewhere, I don’t do a lot of finger-pointing at oil companies when placing the blame for global warming. They produce the oil and gas because we demand it. The primary fault lies with consumers, i.e. us. To quote the famous swamp philosopher Pogo: “We have met
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Parsing Alberta’s oil industry
One could divide Alberta up in various ways. First, as in most provinces and elsewhere, there is town and country, the old story of liberal cities and socially conservative hinterlands. And in the 2019 election the pattern held: the UCP dominated the countryside. And then there’s north-south. The southern part
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Climate Change & Common Sense: “We ain’t gots none.”
Beautiful, moving sculptures, the old Bugattis are. Yes, they should be converted either to a parallel electric hybrid or solar-hydrogen, as with all internal combustion vehicles. If our society had any sense at all, which clearly it doesn’t, we would tax all internal combustion engines at $2,000 a year in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Joe Biden:Strike n+1 Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Our dear government’s stalwart obsession with fossil fuel is again jeopardizing the economic well-being of the Province of Alberta. Kenny is investing heavily in a project that may evaporate with the stroke of the Presidential pen. The company said Alberta has agreed to invest approximately $1.1 billion US as equity
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer, Hamish Marshall, and the Con Kochtopus
When I heard about that secret meeting between Andrew Scheer, his ex-Rebel campaign director Hamish Marshall, and those Big Oil billionaires, I just knew it was part of a wider conspiracy. For one of the speakers at that meeting was once a big wheel in the Koch brothers organization, whose tentacles extend
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Koch Brothers’ Connection
When Andrew Scheer had that secret meeting with some Big Oil bosses at a fancy hotel just outside Calgary the other day, he must have been praying up a storm that nobody would ever find out about it.Never find out what they talked about, never find out who was there.But
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Oily Conspiracy (Continued)
In one of my last posts I looked at how Andrew Scheer and Big Oil were secretly working together to try to defeat Justin Trudeau.In what can only be described as a sinister oily conspiracy. And I predicted that Scheer and his Cons would pay a heavy political price for that perfidious behaviour.And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Big Oil Conspiracy
I always knew that there were dark forces working to make Andrew Scheer Prime Minister, and take this country to a very bad place.But now we know it's a sinister conspiracy.And it couldn't be more evil or more deeply disturbing.Read more »
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Big Oil wants a milk break … and supply management’s foes are all over the media – except when they’re not
On Tuesday, the president of Cenovus Energy Inc., one of the Big Five players in the Alberta oilsands, called for temporary production cuts across the Canadian oil sector to push the sinking price of oil back up again. It’s all about supply and demand, as the well-educated readers of this blog
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: How to Fight Big Oil: Join Your Neighbors
Yes! Magazine co-founder Sarah van Gelder outlines the four reasons communities led by indigenous people all over the United States are winning against the war against the powerful and deep-pocketed fossil fuel industry. The post How to Fight Big Oil: Join Your Neighbors appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michelle Rempel and the Madness of Harperland
It could only happen in Alberta, or in the battered petro-state that Stephen Harper bequeathed this country formerly known as Harperland.For on the day that our parliament endorsed the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The House of Commons voted 207 to 81 to endorse the Paris agreement on climate change tonight, after
Continue readingLeft Over: Wake Up and Smell the Corruption, Canada…….
90 scientists and climate experts call on Trudeau to reject Pacific NorthWest LNG GORDON HOEKSTRA More from Gordon Hoekstra Published on: May 30, 2016 | Last Updated: May 30, 2016 1:41 PM PDT Analysis of the major flaws in Pacific … Continue reading →
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Is Big Oil Supporting Ezra Levant’s Bigot Site?
I've always been curious about who exactly funds Ezra Levant's grotesque hate mongering site The Rebel.Because as you know the grubby Rebel Commander spends at least half his time begging for money.And since I've always had trouble belie…
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: In Alberta, First Nations engage in a complex dance of resistance to and cooperation with Big Oil
In this illuminating piece, Seattle journalist Erika Lundahl examines how, in Alberta, First Nations are forced to “engage in a complex dance of resistance to and cooperation with” Big Oil “in order to survive.”
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Montreal Simon: Why is Rex Murphy Trying to Inflame Alberta Separatists?
As I pointed out recently, Big Oil's sinking fortunes are driving its faithful hooker Rex Murphy over the deep end.He has been using his bully pulpits on The National and in the National Post to blame everybody but Stephen Harper for the dire situ…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michael Harris On the Con Smearing of Justin Trudeau
I was glad to see Justin Trudeau have the courage and the decency to visit Alberta, a province where so many Cons hate him with an intensity that borders on insanity.I was happy to see him provide Rachel Notley with some badly needed support, and reass…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Clown Rex Murphy’s Ghastly Anti-Trudeau Campaign
Once upon a time I used to fly though the air like Peter Pan in search of the remote control, whenever the ghastly Rex Murphy popped up on my big TV.In a desperate attempt to change the channel, before his oily fumes started pouring out of every orifi…
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