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The State Department just released their Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The 27-page document does not flag any significant en…
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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Over One Hundred Arrested Protesting Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline At White House
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The DC police force must have recently put in a big order for plasti-cuffs. The commencement of the Keystone XL pipeline protest, which kicked off this past weekend, saw over 100…
Continue reading350 or bust: Tar Sands Pipeline Provokes Americans To Civil Disobedience
Saturday August 20th marked the start of the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history. Over 2,000 people from across the U.S. and Canada are arriving in Washington, D.C. to send a message to President Obama that our children…
Continue readingTar-sands pipeline gets support from fake Twitter accounts “to give the illusion of public support.”
I guess to the tar sands people this is what ethical stands for. Sounds about par for the course for these people.What do Astroturf and the Canadian tar sands have in common? They’re both made of petroleum, and now they’ve both got fake grassroots. An …
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Meeting the tar sands face-to-face
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Recently, West Coast Staff Lawyer, Josh Paterson, was invited to particip…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.
– The Mark is the latest to point out that the NDP’s success in winning over former Bloc members and/or sovereigntists should be considered a huge victory rather than reason for criticism:
The Globe, at least, notes …
DeSmogBlog - 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 readingLeDaro: Tar Sands or Ethical Oil?
Ezra Levant has come up with another moronic idea; he thinks if the tar sands are presented in a positive way then the public will accept it more. I think he should get an award for these kinds of far-fetched idiotic claims. Levant states that “I think…
Continue readingGuardian: Canadian government lobbying Europeans to protect tar sands
Nice to see the Guardian doing the heavy lifting while our media snoozes (aka doing Harper’s bidding).
The Canadian government has been accused of an “unprecedented” lobbying effort involving 110 meetings in less than two years in Britain and Europe in a bid to derail new fuel legislation that could hit exports from its tar . . . → Read More: Guardian: Canadian government lobbying Europeans to protect tar sands
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Assorted and environmentally-themed content to end your week.- Lloyd Alter highlights the Cons’ contrasting treatment of environmental scientists (who are being fired in droves) and oil lobbyists (who figure never to lack for work).- And allies around …
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 readingSlap Upside The Head: PR Campaign Uses Gays To Clean Up Tar Sands Image
Well, here’s a very special way to have your struggle for equality used by large corporations! The Alberta tar sands, condemned internationally as one of the most harmful environmental projects in human history, is having some understandable difficulties with its public image. Presenting the sands as an environmentally responsible project or merely downplaying its harm is […]
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: If You Build It, They Will Spill: Dene First Nation Opposes Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline
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The proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline spans a massive stretch of provincial territory from Edmonton, Alberta to Kitimat, B.C. Over 50 percent of…
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 readingAccidental Deliberations: Failing by any measure
It’s no particular secret that “intensity” targets for greenhouse gas emissions are an utter joke, designed to facilitate the continued growth of heavy polluters as long as they make marginal improvements in per-unit emissions with no regard for the fa…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Many Problems With Tar Sands Pipelines
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Note: This post is part of an ongoing series about North American pipelines. For an introduction and links to the w…
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Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy crunches the numbers on vacation time for Canadians:47Percentage of Canadian workers who say they need a vacation more today than they’ve needed in four years. 10Number of statutory holidays Canadian…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Ethical Oil? Tory Scum Polishes Turd
There really is no lie too big, no corporate filth too odious that there isn’t some Tory bagman who isn’t willing to try and sell it to us as a golden egg, when it is in fact toxic poison. Alykhan Velshi, a former aide to the seriously disgusting Immig…
Continue readingThe Harper regime targets @frankejames
Franke James » Blog Archive » Canadian Government Tries to Silence Franke JamesWe can’t really say we’re surprised, now, can we. Subtle and not-so-subtle threats, putting the squeeze on NGOs and making sure anyone thinking of sponsoring the show know…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
An environmental monitoring plan explicitly designed to improve the reputation of the industry involved is a thoroughly useless environmental monitoring plan.
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