… off this site until I return, but it is our last day down here, so I’m taking some liberties. This is the Con Natural Resources Minister: Oliver says the groups “threaten to hijack our regulatory system to achieve their radical ideological agenda,” stack the hearings with people to delay
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Montreal Simon: Ezra Levant and the Banana Drama
Oh no. I knew Ezra Levant’s obsession with Chiquita Banana would end badly. First he lost control of his senses, now he’s lost control of his bowels mouth. Winding up a 10-minute denunciation of the banana company’s decision to boycott oil from Alberta’s tarsands deposits, Levant signed off his Dec.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Oil Sands and the Banana War
Oh. My. Monkey. It looks like Chiquita Banana is giving Canada’s oil sands the cold shoulder. The Canadian oil sands industry is facing an unlikely adversary in Chiquita Brands International, the banana company. The Ohio-based company said it will work with environmental organization ForestEthics to eliminate shipping of Chiquita bananas
Continue reading350 or bust: #NOKXL! Score One For Our Children’s Future (For A Change)
It’s official – break out the champagne!! The U.S. State Department just announced that it would delay making a decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline until after it had undergone extensive further review, including a search for an …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Breaking: State Department Delays Keystone XL Decision Until 2013
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The State Department announced today that they would “seek additional information” about the Keystone XL pipeline, meaning that they will take another 12 months at…
Continue readingSpiegel: The stench of money. Canada’s environment succumbs to tar sands.
One of the better and more personal articles on the damage done to the environment and native heritage by the rush to extract ‘black gold’ from the tar sands in Alberta.Most analysts already assume that Obama will eventually authorize the Keystone XL p…
Continue reading350 or bust: Dear Mr. Harper
Canada’s Prime Minister Harper has been receiving messages about halting the expansion of the Alberta tar sands from far and wide this week. First, it was the 400 Canadians who gathered on Parliament Hill this past Monday, 200 of whom put thems…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Tar Trek: Two BC Teenagers Take on the Tar Sands [Video]
This is a guest post by our friend Heather Libby.
In my job at TckTckTck, I spend a lot of time worrying about the Alberta tar sands. I've read hundreds of articles, watched dozens of films and worked on my fair share of infographics…
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Rust never sleeps … and neither do tar sands nuclear power boosters
Grande Prairie, or some other northwestern town in Alberta’s Peace Country, as it’s sure to be portrayed by the nuclear industry. Not exactly as illustrated, but then, these things never turn out to be exactly as illustrated, do they? GRANDE PRAIRIE,…
Continue reading350 or bust: The Planet Isn’t The Only Thing Heating Up: Opposition to Keystone XL Pipeline Grows
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and seven other Nobel Peace Laureates have just written a letter to President Obama urging him to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and to begin building a clean energy future immediately. T…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Belated Review: ‘Ethical Oil’ by Ezra Levant
Dear Ezra Levant, Oh, Ezra. High off the success of your influential book Shakedown that targets the gross injustices perpetrated by Canada’s various Human Rights Commissions, you have written a book that doesn’t so much detail why oil from Alberta is ‘ethical’ per se (as your title supposes), so much as you have written a … Continue reading »
bastard.logic: Gary Don’t. Please, Just Don’t.
by matttbastard I have no clue who I’m going to endorse for the NDP leadership — but I sure as shit know which potential candidate will never, ever receive a vote from yours truly: sellout 3rd way posterchild Gary Doer, who has … Continue reading →
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Photo Essay on Canada’s Filthy Tar Sands – This Is Why Keystone XL Must Be Stopped
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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 readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Meeting the tar sands face-to-face
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Recently, West Coast Staff Lawyer, Josh Paterson, was invited to particip…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Permit to Pollute: Dodging New Law, Agency Approves Alberta Coal Plant
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In Alberta, coal was first mined near Edmonton as early as 1850, and commercial coal operations took off in 1874. After the coal rush where hundreds of mines popped up across the pr…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Launches Campaign To Lobby For Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
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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 readingCanadian Progressive World: EthicalOil.org: Canada Tar Sands Propaganda And Insult to Canadians
Former 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 readingThe energy ministers’ Orwellian statement
The news release and action plan issued by the provincial energy ministers following their recent conference in Kananaskis stepped rather lightly over environmental concerns. Perhaps this is not unexpected at a meeting paid for in part by oil companies…
Continue reading350 or bust: Big Oil Bankrolls Meeting on Canada’s Energy Future
At least it’s clear who’s setting the agenda at this weekend’s meeting of Provincial and Federal Ministers of Energy and Mines. It turns out the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the Oil Sands Developers Group are the ma…
Continue readingthe reeves report: US Dept. of Transportation orders TransCanada to halt activity on Keystone I
Effective immediately, the US Department of Transportation has ordered TransCanada to suspend all activity on the Keystone I pipeline. According to the New York Times, the order was issued by the Transportation department’s Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. “Effective immediately,” the PHMSA claims, “this order prevents TransCanada from restarting operations on their Keystone crude … Continue reading »