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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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Henry Farrell points out why supposedly progressive ideas which don’t do anything to counter corporate power are doomed to failure:Neo-liberals tend to favor a combination of market mechanisms and technocratic …
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 readingAccidental Deliberations: Frequently-quoted answers to simple questions
Pogge asks:Is (Brad) Wall so uninformed that he doesn’t know about (federal subsidies for the oil sands)?It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.This has been a first edition of frequentl…
Continue reading350 or bust: Canada, A PetroState? The Face Of Climate Corruption in Canada
From 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…
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 readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jay Bryan weighs in on dangers of increasing inequality and corporate greed:Of course, the corporate mantra is that top executives are making millions because they’re possessed of a unique genius that enriches their …
Continue readingTar Sands Supported by Wall Government
You can read the piece that landed in my Inbox this a.m., below. To summarize, “The Government of Saskatchewan has demonstrated its commitment to oil sands exploration and development.” Some additional info: Map: http://www.oilsandsquest.co…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Armine Yalnizyan follows up on the Conference Board of Canada’s recognition that growing inequality is a serious problem for Canada by noting the similar observations around the globe:There is a growing awarene…
Continue reading350 or bust: Google On Why Renewable Energy Is On The Way, and Lubicon Cree On Why It’s Needed
Google is putting its substantial money where its mouth is on new energy technologies. From New Energy News: When the story of this moment in history is told, it will be about the huge numbers of people in emerging economies coming out of poverty and t…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: To The Last Drop – Documentary on Alberta Tar Sands
Curious about the issues surrounding the Tar Sands of Alberta? Filed under: Education Tagged: Alberta, Oil, Tar Sands
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Jackson points out and sums up a Statistics Canada study showing how much possible revenue is lost to the underground economy:Statscan have produced interesting and important new estimates of the upper b…
Continue readingLeftist Jab: What The Asbestos Debate Is About
“This government will not put Canadian industry in a position where it is discriminated against in a market where sale is permitted.” -Stephen HarperIn my previous post, I had established the Conservatives know that asbestos is unsafe, they know it’s u…
Continue readingLeftist Jab: What The Asbestos Debate Isn’t About
“This government will not put Canadian industry in a position where it is discriminated against in a market where sale is permitted.” -Stephen Harper (April 26th, 2011)Chrysotile is “ethical” asbestosDespite Christian Paradis repeating that “…
Continue readingArt Threat: The fight to sell or save water – Friday Film Pick: Water on the Table
New DVD release of Water on the Table, a doc beautifully showcasing the public-vs-private fight over water.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity
After at 2010 that was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a long time to make the full list, but you know what I mean: tornadoes, floods, drought, record cold in some parts, record heat in others, hailstorms (Al Gore does […]
Continue reading350 or bust: White Water, Black Gold
You can’t practice abstinence while running a brothel. Yet politicians of almost all stripes talk simultaneously about developing the Alberta oil sands while getting serous about reducing carbon emissions. Sound like a crock? It is. Mitchell Ande…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline Would Feature Woefully Inadequate Spill Detection System
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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…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On incomplete reporting
Yes, it’s a problem if the Cons are giving different answers about climate-change policy to different audiences. But I’m not sure how the difference between federal action making next to no difference and its making even less than that makes for a more…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Canada Being Viewed as "Sneaks" by Europeans
A piece coming from Europe suggests that Canada talks dirty on trade Citing an access to information request, it has been learned that the Canadian government, has tried to “sneak” in a clause, in their proposed EU trade deal, that overrides environmen…
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