Shutting Down the Tar Sands
We have no defensible choice but to end the development of the Athabasca Tar Sands.The 'best case scenario' International Energy Agency analysis released a few days ago warns we're on…
Tar Sands
Breaking: State Department Delays Keystone XL Decision Until 2013
Obama tar sands.gif 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...
Valero Positioning To Export Tar Sands Oil, Guarding Pot of Gold at End of Keystone XL Pipeline
Valero Logo.gif In the heated Keystone XL debate, the Canadian company TransCanada, which is attempting to build the line, and the Koch brothers, who are throwing their considerable weight behi...
Welcome To Mordor
...we used to call it Alberta. Except, to be fair, Tolkien's Mordor had two way streets.
Tuesday At The Radio Show
I wish I could get it all together: the radio show, the podcast and the blog. Truth is I do it alone and simply run out of steam and so…
Tuesday At The Radio Show
I wish I could get it all together: the radio show, the podcast and the blog. Truth is I do it alone and simply run out of steam and so…
Tuesday At The Radio Show
I wish I could get it all together: the radio show, the podcast and the blog. Truth is I do it alone and simply run out of steam and so…
Mark Ruffalo On Opposing Keystone XL Pipeline: I Look At My Kids and I Say I Can’t Betray Them
I’m looking out the window of my home office today, rejoicing at the sprinkling of snow on the ground. Yesterday rain fell outside, while a confused fly that should have…
Some Truth About The Tar Sands
There has been an unending stream of propaganda coming from the people in big-oil about the tar sands. In particular a group that calls themselves CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum…
Some Truth About The Tar Sands
There has been an unending stream of propaganda coming from the people in big-oil about the tar sands. In particular a group that calls themselves CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum…
Some Truth About The Tar Sands
There has been an unending stream of propaganda coming from the people in big-oil about the tar sands. In particular a group that calls themselves CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum…
Oil Industry Co-Opts Occupy Movement to Sell the Keystone XL Pipeline
99percent.jpg The AFL-CIO's America's Building Trades Unions and Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee are attempting to co-opt the Occupy movement with a new initiative...
Harry Reid to Hillary Clinton: Drop Keystone XL Pipeline Plan
NV_HarryReid.jpg Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have gained a new ally in the fight to prevent this disastrous oil boondoggle from moving forward: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D&ndas...
Parliament In Review: October 5, 2011
After the previous day's relatively non-partisan and specific focus, October 5 saw a return to broad debate on the economy - thanks to both a day of debate on the…
Department of shocking headlines, QMI edition
From LFPress.com comes this shocking news item: "Talk show superstar supports oilsands". Who's the 'superstar'? Why, Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, that's who. Shocked yet? I didn't think so.
Mother Jones gives Ezra Levant a hot oil message
I don’t think Ezra will get it. With Mr. Levant any publicity, even when you’re being eviscerated, is what being a ‘gadfly‘ is all about. Cross posted at Let Freedom…
Parliament In Review: October 4, 2011
Tuesday, October 4 was an opposition day, featuring a motion from Bob Rae on a national suicide strategy that provoked somewhat more agreement than usual. But that doesn't mean there…
Amusing ‘oil orgy’ surprises Gordon Campbell. Disrupts UK energy summit.
'Sexy' environmentalists Peter Bearder and Emily Coats strip down as Brit and Canadian respectively, and douse each other with oil while embracing, kissing and generally fooling around. I'll say this…
Spiegel: 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…