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According to the NRDC, the proposed $13 billion Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not be able to detect “pinhole leaks” in the pipeline that release fewer tha…
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According to the NRDC, the proposed $13 billion Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not be able to detect “pinhole leaks” in the pipeline that release fewer tha…
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Republican Congressman Ed Whitfield from Kentucky, who serves as Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has made it clear that he will do everything i…
Continue readingIn 1935 a group of farmers in Regina, Saskatchewan pooled their savings, re-mortgaged their farms and build the Consumer Co-operative Refinery Limited (CCRL). CCRL is the oldest and largest co-operative in the energy sector in Canada, controlled by Canadian members, and is one of the oldest energy co-operatives in the world. Who knew? This story […]
Continue readingTo learn more, visit the Dogwood Initiative’s No Tankers campaign information pages ; to sign the petition click here.
Continue readingVia Montreal Simon and Alison at Creekside, this little gem:
Teabaggers, Astroturfers, the Fraser Institute, robocalls directing voters to the wrong places, Harper wanking on about Canada being an “energy superpower” … all part of the same noxious…
Continue readingThe Young Turks have ran a number of stories on how major investment banks have gamed the US and global economic systems. In the video presented below, they discuss how major investment bankers (e.g., Goldman Sachs) have effectively triple penetrated their investors and the global oil market, which affects all of us by driving up […]
Continue readingLast Wednesday, April 20, the activist group known as Liberate Tate staged another protest performance at Tate Britain. Set on the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf o Mexico over 87 days last year, the group poured an oil-like substance over […]
Continue readingA strange portrait of the Southern-Iraqi city of Basra is painted in a recent and brief Economist article. Better than Baghdad struggles to find real evidence of improvement of quality of life or opportunity in Basra, which is Iraq’s international oil and shipping hub and home to a large disenfranchised
Continue readingNorth Sea Oil Drilling by crawfish head Yesterday, January 6th 2011, the UK Parliamentary committee appointed to look into whether the government should enact a moratorium on deep-water drilling in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico-BP oil disaster, has ruled out the need for a halt to new projects
Continue reading“This scares everybody” –British Petroleum COO Doug Suttles, on May 29, 2010, commenting on the failure of the “Top Kill” attempt to stave off the worst crude oil contamination in historyWell folks, it looks like this Gulf of Mexico oil spill is ripe…
Continue readingI had the opportunity through work to attend the 2009 Canadian Public Relations Society Conference in Vancouver this past June. The second afternoon luncheon was delivered by David Suzuki. I was so inspired and impressed by his talk. Now, that I have f…
Continue readingRoll out red carpetsHere come the China boys– The Payola$ (1979)A report by Robert Fisk (the only Western journalist to ever interview Osama bin Laden) in today’s Independent augurs ill for the continuance of the United States’ dominance of world fina…
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