From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug  2 12:40:15 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:40:15 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Shell unveils plan for biggest upgrader
Message-ID: <20070802194016.18077.qmail@resist.ca>

GLOBE AND MAIL:

Print Edition 31/07/07 Page B1  
RESOURCES: EXPANDING IN THE OIL SANDS

Shell unveils plan for biggest upgrader

Proposal could cost up to $27-billion as price of refining Alberta's heavy crude continues to climb

NORVAL SCOTT

July 31, 2007

CALGARY -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC is planning construction on the largest oil sands upgrader to date, even as other firms delay or cancel their own projects in the face of spiralling costs.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/shell-unveils-plan-biggest-upgrader

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/shell-unveils-plan-biggest-upgrader


From news at resist.ca  Sun Aug  5 16:17:11 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:17:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Buying our way out of sin
Message-ID: <20070805231711.8082.qmail@resist.ca>

Buying our way out of sin  
THE TELEGRAM [St Lohn's, NFLD)  
The Telegram  
[http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=51665&sc=80][1]

For such a modern-day problem, it seems like a terribly Medieval solution. The problem is climate change ? the way humanity is altering the Earth?s weather by spewing fossil-fuel emissions into the atmosphere.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=51665&sc=80 (http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=51665&sc=80)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/buying-our-way-out-sin

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/buying-our-way-out-sin


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug  7 08:40:12 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:40:12 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] The World's Most Expensive Babysitters
Message-ID: <20070807154013.27751.qmail@resist.ca>

The World's Most Expensive Babysitters  
By Tom Dyson  
August 6, 2007  
[http://www.dailywealth.com/archive/2007/aug/2007_aug_06.asp][1]

Today, I heard the story of Angela. 

Angela is 17 years old. Recently, she was offered $3,500 per month to babysit three children for a few hours after school each day while the parents work late. Two of the children are grown up. The third is a toddler. The toddler sleeps. The other two children take care of themselves. Angela watches TV, does her homework, then goes home. That's it.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.dailywealth.com/archive/2007/aug/2007_aug_06.asp (http://www.dailywealth.com/archive/2007/aug/2007_aug_06.asp)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/worlds-most-expensive-babysitters

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/worlds-most-expensive-babysitters


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug  7 08:40:12 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:40:12 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] National Post "Warns" of Consequences of Tar Sands
	Problems
Message-ID: <20070807154013.27749.qmail@resist.ca>

Oilpatch risks turn from value creation to value destruction  
Everybody Wants A Bigger Cut Of The Booming Industry  
[http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=40c0596f-...][1]  
Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post  
Published: Tuesday, August 07, 2007

For the first time in a generation, Alberta is facing a general strike within its construction trades that threatens to disrupt its booming oilsands industry and is introducing a new type of uncertainty --labour unrest.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=40c0596f-88bf-42d9-901f-cc9b67dbb9c3&p=2 (http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=40c0596f-88bf-42d9-901f-cc9b67dbb9c3&p=2)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/national-post-warns-consequences-tar-sands-problems

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/national-post-warns-consequences-tar-sands-problems


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug  7 08:40:12 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:40:12 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Enviros Target Tar Sands while in Fort McMurray
Message-ID: <20070807154013.27750.qmail@resist.ca>

Green groups target oilsands projects  
'It's time to get . . . opinions swayed'  
Joel Kom, Calgary Herald; with a file from The Edmonton Journal  
[http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=4302ec43-2a9c-4117-a72...][1]  
Published: Sunday, August 05, 2007

Environmentalists have come to the epicentre of oilsands development this weekend to highlight the vast changes taking place near Fort McMurray.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=4302ec43-2a9c-4117-a72c-45db1245ecd9&k=92547&p=2 (http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=4302ec43-2a9c-4117-a72c-45db1245ecd9&k=92547&p=2)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/enviros-target-tar-sands-while-fort-mcmurray

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/enviros-target-tar-sands-while-fort-mcmurray


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug  7 08:40:12 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:40:12 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Homelessness in Fort McMurray
Message-ID: <20070807154014.27752.qmail@resist.ca>

Image being addressed  
[http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/Local%20News/328436.html][1]

By MATTHEW HEINDL  
Today staff  
Friday August 03, 2007

The need for a homeless shelter for youth was broached at a homeless strategy session in Fort McMurray Thursday, but it wasn?t adopted as one of the areas identified as immediate priorities.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/Local%20News/328436.html (http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/Local%20News/328436.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/homelessness-fort-mcmurray

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/homelessness-fort-mcmurray


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug  7 09:17:12 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:17:12 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Oil: BC's Hydra-headed Headache
Message-ID: <20070807161713.11985.qmail@resist.ca>

Oil: BC's Hydra-headed Headache  
A grim exception. To prevent and respond to spills, our policies are a mess.  
By Arthur Caldicott // August 2, 2007  
[http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/08/02/Hydra/][1]

For an industry that likes to keep its business underground, pipeline companies create a hell of mess when they allow it to surface. And the shipping industry, which prefers to stay on the surface, creates a hell of a mess when it tanks.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/08/02/Hydra/ (http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/08/02/Hydra/)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-bcs-hydra-headed-headache

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-bcs-hydra-headed-headache


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug  7 09:17:12 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:17:12 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Northern Saskatchewan Nation Blockades Tar Sands,
	Talking to Oilsands Quest
Message-ID: <20070807161713.11986.qmail@resist.ca>

First Nation talking to province about oilsands  
Last Updated: Thursday, August 2, 2007 | 10:40 AM CT  
[http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/08/02/oilsands.html][1]

The chief of a western Saskatchewan First Nation that blocked a road used by an oil exploration company said he's not concerned the company has moved some of its operations to Alberta.

In June, the Clearwater First Nation blocked Highway 955 north of La Loche, a route used by the Calgary-based Oilsands Quest in its search for oilsands.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/08/02/oilsands.html (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/08/02/oilsands.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/northern-saskatchewan-nation-blockades-tar-sands-talking-oilsands-quest

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/northern-saskatchewan-nation-blockades-tar-sands-talking-oilsands-quest


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug  7 10:41:09 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:41:09 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] New Greenpeace office to fight oilsands
Message-ID: <20070807174110.26736.qmail@resist.ca>

New Greenpeace office to fight oilsands  
edmontonjournal.com  
Published: Wednesday, August 01  
EDMONTON - The environmental activist organization Greenpeace Canada is setting up shop in Edmonton to fight Alberta's oilsands development.  
The organization has hired two full-time staff to campaign against devlopment of northern Alberta's oilsands, which it calls Canada's glob al warming disaster.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/new-greenpeace-office-fight-oilsands

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/new-greenpeace-office-fight-oilsands


From news at resist.ca  Wed Aug  8 15:17:35 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:17:35 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Announcing Californian Tar Sands Drilling
Message-ID: <20070808221736.29460.qmail@resist.ca>

What you read here is a press release put out by the Tri-Valley corp. It is obviously full of self-promoting, you should-buy-our-stocks stuff-- where it announces the beginning of tar sands "extraction" experimentation with Californian "SagD" or in-situ "drilling" of massive energy and high cost tar sands bitumen. AS this is what most of the Orinoco Basin is made up of, it would be likely that there is ex-pat Venezuelan Gusano help in trying to undercut the Bolivarians with this technology.

In a sentence: Welcome California into the world of producing death from sand to get oil.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/announcing-californian-tar-sands-drilling

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/announcing-californian-tar-sands-drilling


From news at resist.ca  Wed Aug  8 15:17:35 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:17:35 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Terrace Standard Hacking up Dogwood Initiative,
	NDP-- Promoting oil and gas in Douglas Channel
Message-ID: <20070808221736.29463.qmail@resist.ca>

As always, the good news is that when such hate comes at you, it is part of a larger concern that the politics being brought forth by critics are harming "business as usual". As such, people concerned about traditional lands from Edmonton to Kitamaat Village and up and down the Inside Pasage of BC should take note, and perhaps a pat on the back. Fear them only when they ignore you.

--M

This MP should stay far away  
By ROGER HARRIS  
[http://www.terracestandard.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=33&cat=48&id=...][1]  
Aug 08 2007

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.terracestandard.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=33&cat=48&id=1039498&more=0 (http://www.terracestandard.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=33&cat=48&id=1039498&more=0)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/terrace-standard-hacking-dogwood-initiative-ndp-promoting-oil-and-gas-douglas-channel

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/terrace-standard-hacking-dogwood-initiative-ndp-promoting-oil-and-gas-douglas-channel


From news at resist.ca  Wed Aug  8 18:17:04 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Dehcho Unimpressed by Feds; WWF, CBI Quite So
Message-ID: <20070809011704.29686.qmail@resist.ca>

If you see a contradiction between these articles, you are one with good observation skills. 

--M

Natives doubt federal will to expand northern wilderness preserve  
[http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=12b160e6-ac48-4...][1]  
Mike De Souza, CanWest News Service // Tuesday, August 07, 2007

OTTAWA ? Aboriginal leaders are skeptical about a federal government promise to expand the portions of the Northwest Territories that are protected from new mining, oil and gas development.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=12b160e6-ac48-4331-b41a-ffb52480ef6a&k=10744 (http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=12b160e6-ac48-4331-b41a-ffb52480ef6a&k=10744)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/dehcho-unimpressed-feds-wwf-cbi-quite-so

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/dehcho-unimpressed-feds-wwf-cbi-quite-so


From news at resist.ca  Wed Aug  8 23:17:04 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Ricardo Acuna on Non-Consensus in the Tar Sands
	Multi-Stakeholder Committee
Message-ID: <20070809061705.957.qmail@resist.ca>

[http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=410][1]

Oil Sands Committee reports back

It is time for the Stelmach government to pick a side: public or industry.

Dateline: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 

by Ricardo Acuna 

Last week, the Alberta Government released the much anticipated final report and recommendations of the Oil Sands Multi-Stakeholder Committee ? the committee charged with carrying out a broad-based consultation with Albertans and making recommendations on the future of the Alberta tar sands.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=410 (http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=410)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/ricardo-acuna-non-consensus-tar-sands-multi-stakeholder-committee

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/ricardo-acuna-non-consensus-tar-sands-multi-stakeholder-committee


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug  9 14:17:04 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tar Sand Workers Cruising down to Edmonton?
Message-ID: <20070809211705.2417.qmail@resist.ca>

Ft. Mac workers cruising in city?  
CP - 5/31/2006  
By FRANK LANDRY, CITY HALL BUREAU  
[http://www.sextradeworkersofcanada.com/sex%20trade/News/detail.asp?iData...][1]

The head of a city group that targets johns says oilsands workers making big bucks "working in the bush" are regularly cruising down to Edmonton and buying sex.

Kate Quinn, executive director of the Prostitution Awareness and Action Foundation of Edmonton (PAAFE), said her group will approach oil companies about going into Fort McMurray to talk to employees about the harms of prostitution.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.sextradeworkersofcanada.com/sex%20trade/News/detail.asp?iData=225&iCat=624&iChannel=1&nChannel=News (http://www.sextradeworkersofcanada.com/sex%20trade/News/detail.asp?iData=225&iCat=624&iChannel=1&nChannel=News)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sand-workers-cruising-down-edmonton

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sand-workers-cruising-down-edmonton


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug  9 14:40:18 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:40:18 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Booms Housing Crisis Leading Women into Survival Sex
	Trade
Message-ID: <20070809214018.8736.qmail@resist.ca>

Housing woes lead to sex trade: advocate  
June 18, 2007  
[http://www.sextradeworkersofcanada.com/sex%20trade/News/detail.asp?iData...][1]  
By CARTER HAYDU , SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA

Mary Jane St. Savard checks Marvin Ross's hair at their tent behind the Bissell Centre on 96st and 105 ave. A large group of people have set up tents on the empty field after police and park rangers moved them off various other locations. 

Skyrocketing rents are forcing some women into the "survival sex trade," warns one advocate for prostitutes.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.sextradeworkersofcanada.com/sex%20trade/News/detail.asp?iData=352&iCat=624&iChannel=1&nChannel=News (http://www.sextradeworkersofcanada.com/sex%20trade/News/detail.asp?iData=352&iCat=624&iChannel=1&nChannel=News)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/booms-housing-crisis-leading-women-survival-sex-trade

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/booms-housing-crisis-leading-women-survival-sex-trade


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug  9 18:40:14 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:40:14 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] "Canadian energy company plans another pipeline in U.S."
Message-ID: <20070810014015.24457.qmail@resist.ca>

Canadian energy company plans another pipeline in U.S.  
[http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/08/06/pipeline-oil.html][1]  
Last Updated: Monday, August 6, 2007  
The Canadian Press

TransCanada Corp. is joining with Northwest Natural Gas Company on a proposal to build a natural gas pipeline in Oregon that could cost the companies up to $700 million US.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/08/06/pipeline-oil.html (http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/08/06/pipeline-oil.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/canadian-energy-company-plans-another-pipeline-u-s

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/canadian-energy-company-plans-another-pipeline-u-s


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug  9 18:40:14 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:40:14 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] S Dakota's Public Utilities Commission Withholding
	Landowners List During Keystone Hearings
Message-ID: <20070810014015.24466.qmail@resist.ca>

Landowner list in pipeline case sought  
By Terry Woster  
[twoster at argusleader.com][1]  
[http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/NEWS/7080...][2]  
Published: August 8, 2007

PIERRE ? South Dakota?s Public Utilities Commission will hear arguments later this month on a request to make public the names of landowners with property along the route of a proposed crude-oil pipeline.

[read more][3]

    [1]: mailto:twoster at argusleader.com
    [2]: http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/NEWS/70808018/1001 (http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/NEWS/70808018/1001)
    [3]: http://oilsandstruth.org/s-dakotas-public-utilities-commission-withholding-landowners-list-during-keystone-hearings

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/s-dakotas-public-utilities-commission-withholding-landowners-list-during-keystone-hearings


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug  9 22:40:19 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:40:19 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] CEP takes on bitumen exports
Message-ID: <20070810054019.10603.qmail@resist.ca>

CEP takes on bitumen exports  
By CAROL CHRISTIAN  
Today staff  
Thursday August 09, 2007  
[http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/Local%20News/329822.html][1]

Fearing Canadian jobs going down proposed pipelines to the U.S., the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) will intervene in upcoming regulatory hearings.  
At the heart of the matter is the union?s intent to protect Canadian jobs, fostering development of the Canadian economy instead of watching all the benefits go south of the border, officials say.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/Local%20News/329822.html (http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/Local%20News/329822.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/cep-takes-bitumen-exports

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/cep-takes-bitumen-exports


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 16 14:40:17 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:40:17 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Alberta ground zero for green battle
Message-ID: <20070816214017.28190.qmail@resist.ca>

Alberta ground zero for green battle  
Fight would divide nation, Lougheed says

Janice Tibbetts, with files from Jamie Komarnicki, Calgary Herald, CanWest  
News Service  
[http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=e242ed29-ec94-4259...][1]

Published: Wednesday, August 15, 2007

CALGARY -- Canada is facing a bitter constitutional clash over the  
environment and Alberta's oil industry that will threaten national unity and  
eventually end up in the Supreme Court of Canada, former Alberta premier  
Peter Lougheed warned Tuesday.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=e242ed29-ec94-4259-bc3c-d9654856a619&k=23680 (http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=e242ed29-ec94-4259-bc3c-d9654856a619&k=23680)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-ground-zero-green-battle

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-ground-zero-green-battle


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 16 15:17:43 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:17:43 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Energy hungry U.S. is looking to hog-tie Alberta with
	agreement
Message-ID: <20070816221743.316.qmail@resist.ca>

Copyright 2007 Prince Rupert Daily News  
All Rights Reserved  
Prince Rupert Daily News (British Columbia)  
August 15, 2007 Wednesday  
NEWS; Green Justice; Pg. 13

Energy hungry U.S. is looking to hog-tie Alberta with agreement

Charles Justice, The Daily News

Remember the United States was going to bring freedom and democracy  
to Iraq? It wasn't about Iraq's oil, they said. That must be why they  
changed the name of the invasion from "Operation Iraqi Liberation" to  
"Operation Iraqi Freedom." The reason I mention the U.S. invasion of

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/energy-hungry-u-s-looking-hog-tie-alberta-agreement

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/energy-hungry-u-s-looking-hog-tie-alberta-agreement


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 16 16:41:11 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:41:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Review slams Mackenzie project's socio-economic agreement
Message-ID: <20070816234111.27054.qmail@resist.ca>

Review slams Mackenzie project's socio-economic agreement  
Last Updated: Thursday, August 16, 2007 | 12:19 PM CT  
[http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/08/16/gas-agreement.html][1]

The socio-economic agreement between the Northwest Territories and the Mackenzie Valley gas project consortium is unenforceable, says a review released by a social justice group Wednesday.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/08/16/gas-agreement.html (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/08/16/gas-agreement.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/review-slams-mackenzie-projects-socio-economic-agreement

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/review-slams-mackenzie-projects-socio-economic-agreement


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 16 16:41:11 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:41:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] More Mexican Workers Headed for Albertan Tar Pits,
	Elsewhere
Message-ID: <20070816234112.27055.qmail@resist.ca>

Canada looks to Mexico for more workers  
JENNIFER DITCHBURN  
Canadian Press  
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070816.wCanadamexio...][1]  
August 16, 2007 at 4:56 PM EDT

OTTAWA ? While the United States Congress turns up its nose at immigration reform, Canada is poised to start negotiations that would bring even more Mexican workers into this country.

An agreement to strike a commission into increased labour mobility is expected to be among the key accomplishments connected with next week's summit of North American leaders in Montebello, Que.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070816.wCanadamexioc0816/BNStory/National/home (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070816.wCanadamexioc0816/BNStory/National/home)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/more-mexican-workers-headed-albertan-tar-pits-elsewhere

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/more-mexican-workers-headed-albertan-tar-pits-elsewhere


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 16 20:40:23 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:40:23 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] N Dakota letter to the editor: Keystone Pipeline,
	Tar sands not such a good deal
Message-ID: <20070817034024.20377.qmail@resist.ca>

Bob White, Emerado, N.D., letter: Pipeline, oil-sands oil not very good deal  
[http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=174778&section=Opinion&for...][1]  
Published Sunday, August 12, 2007

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=174778&section=Opinion&forumcomm_check_return&freebie_check&CFID=48853454&CFTOKEN=75349633&jsessionid=8830d9dc13d953173b28 (http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=174778&section=Opinion&forumcomm_check_return&freebie_check&CFID=48853454&CFTOKEN=75349633&jsessionid=8830d9dc13d953173b28)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/n-dakota-letter-editor-keystone-pipeline-tar-sands-not-such-good-deal

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/n-dakota-letter-editor-keystone-pipeline-tar-sands-not-such-good-deal


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 16 20:40:23 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:40:23 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] S Dakota: "Some Canadians protest oil pipeline"
Message-ID: <20070817034024.20378.qmail@resist.ca>

Some Canadians protest oil pipeline  
They don't want to give up refinery jobs  
By Peter Harriman  
[http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070811/NEWS/7081...][1]  
August 11, 2007

In South Dakota, Trans-Canada's Keystone pipeline project is drawing attention for its potential effect on landowners.

But in Alberta, Canada, where the pipeline will draw its proposed 500,000 barrels per day from northern oil sands, people see South Dakota and other states benefitting from their country's labor drain.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070811/NEWS/708110316/1001 (http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070811/NEWS/708110316/1001)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/s-dakota-some-canadians-protest-oil-pipeline

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/s-dakota-some-canadians-protest-oil-pipeline


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 23 11:17:09 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:17:09 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Suncor Executive to take Charge of Social Problems in
	Fort Muck?
Message-ID: <20070823181709.28806.qmail@resist.ca>

Oilpatch fox to watch tar sands henhouse

Oil executives shouldn't run a key government agency, even temporarily.  
Dateline: Monday, August 20, 2007  
[http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=427][1]  
by Sheila Pratt for The Edmonton Journal

Ed Stelmach took some good advice last winter and set up an oilsands secretariat to help manage the serious growth problems in Fort McMurray caused by the rapid expansion of the oilsands. Good idea, long overdue.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=427 (http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=427)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/suncor-executive-take-charge-social-problems-fort-muck

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/suncor-executive-take-charge-social-problems-fort-muck


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 23 11:17:09 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:17:09 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Greenpeace guns for the tar sands
Message-ID: <20070823181709.28807.qmail@resist.ca>

Greenpeace guns for the tar sands  
[http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id24064][1]  
Canada?s most ?environmentally destructive? project expands  
Aug. 20, 2007  
EDMONTON

Greenpeace is setting up shop in Edmonton and it has set its sights on shutting down Alberta?s tar sands.

?The tar sands are one of the most environmentally destructive projects in Canada, if not the world,? said Greenpeace campaign organizer Geeta Sehgal adding they create 40 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id24064 (http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id24064)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/greenpeace-guns-tar-sands

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/greenpeace-guns-tar-sands


From news at resist.ca  Fri Aug 24 14:40:10 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:40:10 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tar Sands to start poisoning Indiana & Lake Michigan?
Message-ID: <20070824214011.9855.qmail@resist.ca>

Oil sands plan said to draw fire  
To process heavy Alberta crude, BP wants to dump up to 50% more pollutants into Lake Michigan, angering some - report.  
August 23 2007: 10:48 AM EDT

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Plans to process a heavy grade of crude oil from oil sands in the Canadian province of Alberta have sparked a nasty battle in the Midwest, where some politicians are angry that the move will increase pollution in the Great Lakes, according to a report Wednesday.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-start-poisoning-indiana-lake-michigan

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-start-poisoning-indiana-lake-michigan


From news at resist.ca  Fri Aug 24 18:40:10 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:40:10 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] PWW: Mining black gold, and profits, from northern sands
Message-ID: <20070825014011.30624.qmail@resist.ca>

Mining black gold, and profits, from northern sands

Imagine for a moment that you?re an American oil executive. You?re pondering the prospects for the next big oil strike overseas ? and dreaming of a place where the government is stable and compliant, the royalties are low and the environmental standards minimal.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/pww-mining-black-gold-and-profits-northern-sands

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/pww-mining-black-gold-and-profits-northern-sands


From news at resist.ca  Sat Aug 25 15:17:03 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:17:03 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tar sand mining growing at huge environmental cost
Message-ID: <20070825221703.16827.qmail@resist.ca>

Tar sand mining growing at huge environmental cost  
Posted: 23 Aug 2007  
[http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3079][1]

Canadian tar sands deposits hold an estimated 1.7 trillion barrels of crude oil, second in the world only to Saudi Arabia, but the devastating environmental impact of mining them far exceeds that of conventional oil, says new research to be published next month (September 2007).

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3079 (http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3079)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sand-mining-growing-huge-environmental-cost

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sand-mining-growing-huge-environmental-cost


From news at resist.ca  Sat Aug 25 15:17:03 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:17:03 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] The new dirty energy-- Boston Globe
Message-ID: <20070825221703.16828.qmail@resist.ca>

The new dirty energy  
It's big, it's growing -- and it's bad for the environment. Inside the other alternative-energy movement.  
[http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/19/the_new_dirty...][1]  
By Drake Bennett | August 19, 2007

FOR THOSE WHO dream that high oil prices will help drive America toward a brave new world of clean energy, the MacKay River project in Alberta, Canada, offers a glimpse of the future.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/19/the_new_dirty_energy/ (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/19/the_new_dirty_energy/)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/new-dirty-energy-boston-globe

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/new-dirty-energy-boston-globe


From news at resist.ca  Sat Aug 25 18:17:04 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Alaska offshore drilling delayed further
Message-ID: <20070826011704.17782.qmail@resist.ca>

[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20297414/][1]

Alaska offshore drilling delayed further  
Shell blocked from area off Prudhoe Bay due to lawsuit by natives,  
activists

The Associated Press  
Updated: 7:59 a.m. HT Aug 16, 2007

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that  
Royal Dutch Shell PLC must further postpone plans for exploratory oil  
drilling off the northern coast of Alaska.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also indicated that  
environmental and Alaska Native groups have a good chance of  
prevailing in their effort to keep the energy giant out of the

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20297414/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20297414/)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/alaska-offshore-drilling-delayed-further

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/alaska-offshore-drilling-delayed-further


From news at resist.ca  Sun Aug 26 10:40:13 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:40:13 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Lubicon backed by UN Committee
Message-ID: <20070826174014.30720.qmail@resist.ca>

Alberta's Lubicons get a boost from U.N. Human Rights Committee  
Aug, 13 2007 - 4:50 PM  
[http://www.630ched.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428109912&rem=72244&red=...][1]

EDMONTON/630 CHED - A U.N. Committee on Human Rights is urging Canada to negotiate a long standing land claim treaty with the Lubicon Cree Nation of north central Alberta.

The U.N. Human Rights Committee wrapped up two-and-a-half weeks of hearings in Geneva, late last month, and on the agenda was the issue of Alberta's Lubicons.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.630ched.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428109912&rem=72244&red=80110923aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm (http://www.630ched.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428109912&rem=72244&red=80110923aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/lubicon-backed-un-committee

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/lubicon-backed-un-committee


From news at resist.ca  Sun Aug 26 10:40:13 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:40:13 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tarsands workers rally in Fort McMurray
Message-ID: <20070826174014.30727.qmail@resist.ca>

Oilsands workers rally in Fort McMurray  
Protesting ongoing labour dispute  
[http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2007/08/23/4441128.html][1]  
By CP

FORT MCMURRAY ? Hundreds of workers fed up with an ongoing labour dispute in the oilsands rallied in Fort McMurray on Wednesday night.

The workers, many of them from the pipefitters and electrical workers unions, are not happy with a four-year contract offer, and say they?re disappointed in how their union leaders have negotiated.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2007/08/23/4441128.html (http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2007/08/23/4441128.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tarsands-workers-rally-fort-mcmurray

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tarsands-workers-rally-fort-mcmurray


From news at resist.ca  Sun Aug 26 10:40:13 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:40:13 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] In Alberta, Cocaine Easier to Buy than Pizza
Message-ID: <20070826174014.30721.qmail@resist.ca>

Cocaine easier to buy than pizza  
Drugs, alcohol plague transient workers living on fringes of oilpatch boom towns  
Amanda Ferguson, The Edmonton Journal  
Published: 2:05 am  
[http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=cd92c68f-21d9-4...][1]

Even when living in the remote work camps of northern Alberta, Ken was never far from his next fix.

If cocaine wasn't being used inside his camp of 3,000 oil workers in the outskirts of Fort McMurray, it lingered just outside in the pockets of the drug dealers who prowled outside the gates like predators.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=cd92c68f-21d9-4009-986b-03ecc3d00144&p=1 (http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=cd92c68f-21d9-4009-986b-03ecc3d00144&p=1)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-cocaine-easier-buy-pizza

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-cocaine-easier-buy-pizza


From news at resist.ca  Sun Aug 26 11:17:07 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:17:07 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tar Sands are Running out of Pipelines
Message-ID: <20070826181707.2949.qmail@resist.ca>

As labour shortages are going to take a short while to be dealt with through the importation of "guest workers" on top of already getting Newfoundlanders to fly in weekly while energy throughout the province is already stretched to beyond capacity, the pipeline problem is the third _de facto_ part of an existing physics-based moratorium. With all of these shortages and the US Dep't of Energy screaming for quadrupling tar sands bitumen production, our strategy to block new pipeline construction at the least slows down the entire project.

M

Oilsands face pipeline space shortage

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-are-running-out-pipelines

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-are-running-out-pipelines


From news at resist.ca  Sun Aug 26 12:17:18 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:17:18 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] When citizens are most vulnerable
Message-ID: <20070826191720.16031.qmail@resist.ca>

When citizens are most vulnerable  
[http://srj.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=74&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdet...][1]

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://srj.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=74&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=2130&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1957&hn=srj&he=.ca (http://srj.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=74&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=2130&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1957&hn=srj&he=.ca)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/when-citizens-are-most-vulnerable

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/when-citizens-are-most-vulnerable


From news at resist.ca  Sun Aug 26 12:17:18 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:17:18 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Dr John O'Connor still Being Persecuted
Message-ID: <20070826191719.16027.qmail@resist.ca>

Fort Chip Doctor Still Under Scrutiny  
[http://srj.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=74&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdet...][1]  
SRJ Staff 24.AUG.07

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://srj.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=74&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=2164&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1957&hn=srj&he=.ca (http://srj.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=74&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=2164&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1957&hn=srj&he=.ca)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/dr-john-oconnor-still-being-persecuted

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/dr-john-oconnor-still-being-persecuted


From news at resist.ca  Sun Aug 26 12:17:18 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:17:18 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] BP maybe not going to pollute Lake Michigan? Refinery on
	Hold...
Message-ID: <20070826191719.16026.qmail@resist.ca>

Pollution roadblock may derail BP refinery of oilsands crude  
Oil giant unable to strip out enough ammonia from wastewater  
Joe Carroll, Bloomberg News //Thursday, August 23  
[http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=23b91b...][1]

BP Plc hasn't found a way to reduce water pollution that threatens to scuttle a $3.8 billion Indiana refinery expansion, the second-costliest project of its kind in the U.S.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=23b91b6a-2a3f-4238-b133-f3d135f2c71e (http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=23b91b6a-2a3f-4238-b133-f3d135f2c71e)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/bp-maybe-not-going-pollute-lake-michigan-refinery-hold

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/bp-maybe-not-going-pollute-lake-michigan-refinery-hold


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 11:40:10 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:40:10 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Nuclear Plant Plan for Peace River Draws Fire
Message-ID: <20070828184011.21658.qmail@resist.ca>

Nuclear plant plan draws fire

Environmentalists question impact on area land and water; company touts 'clean, safe, reliable' power  
Jamie Hall, The Edmonton Journal; With files from the Calgary Herald  
[http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=107a03c7-...][1]  
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

EDMONTON - Energy Alberta Corporation has chosen Peace River as the site of a proposed nuclear power plant.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=107a03c7-e870-42d0-b846-5068abb0f103&k=99677 (http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=107a03c7-e870-42d0-b846-5068abb0f103&k=99677)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/nuclear-plant-plan-peace-river-draws-fire

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/nuclear-plant-plan-peace-river-draws-fire


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 11:40:10 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:40:10 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Methane dispute reignites in B.C.
Message-ID: <20070828184011.21657.qmail@resist.ca>

Methane dispute reignites in B.C.  
WENDY STUECK  
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070822.RSHELL22/TPSto...][1]  
August 22, 2007

VANCOUVER -- A group of protesters, including members of the Tahltan and Iskut Indian bands, blocked a road in northwestern British Columbia yesterday, preventing Royal Dutch Shell PLC crews from heading into a contested region to do road repair work and reigniting a debate over coal bed methane exploration in the area.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070822.RSHELL22/TPStory/Business (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070822.RSHELL22/TPStory/Business)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/methane-dispute-reignites-b-c

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/methane-dispute-reignites-b-c


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 11:40:10 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:40:10 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] A methane battle is brewing
Message-ID: <20070828184011.21659.qmail@resist.ca>

A methane battle is brewing

By Andrew Findlay  
Publish Date: August 23, 2007  
http://www.straight.com/article-106704/a-methane-battle-is-brewing

Back in 1978, a young Wade Davis scored the job of his dreams. Hired as a park ranger to explore and map B.C.'s newly established Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park, he had a wonderfully vague job description: wilderness assessment and public relations. In two seasons he "related" to fewer than a dozen visitors.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/methane-battle-brewing

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/methane-battle-brewing


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 12:17:04 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Breaks a Danger in Proposed Keystone Pipeline
Message-ID: <20070828191705.27712.qmail@resist.ca>

Breaks a danger in proposed pipeline  
[http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/08/27/news/opinion/letters/...][1]  
Aug 27, 2007 - 05:27:25 CDT  
By RAMONA KLEIN  
Oriska

Canada wants to build a 1,830-mile, 30-inch crude oil pipeline, pumping 435,000 barrels a day or more, across 218 miles of North Dakota. This directly affects about 600 landowners, neighbors and anybody using water in this part of the state.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/08/27/news/opinion/letters/doc46d096305049f785659693.txt (http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/08/27/news/opinion/letters/doc46d096305049f785659693.txt)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/breaks-danger-proposed-keystone-pipeline

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/breaks-danger-proposed-keystone-pipeline


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 12:17:05 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:17:05 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Prentice to stay on Mackenzie pipeline project
Message-ID: <20070828191705.27713.qmail@resist.ca>

Prentice to stay on Mackenzie pipeline project  
Decision provides continuity on complex issue, say proponents  
Last Updated: Friday, August 17, 2007 | 10:29 AM CT  
[http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/08/17/nwt-prentice.html][1]

Industry Minister Jim Prentice will continue working on the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline project, even though he is no longer Indian and northern affairs minister ? a move that has pleased pipeline proponents and continued to frustrate critics.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/08/17/nwt-prentice.html (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/08/17/nwt-prentice.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/prentice-stay-mackenzie-pipeline-project

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/prentice-stay-mackenzie-pipeline-project


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 12:40:15 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:40:15 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Higher CO{-2} May Imperil Grasslands
Message-ID: <20070828194016.14282.qmail@resist.ca>

Higher CO{-2} May Imperil Grasslands  
Scientists warn of dire consequences for grazing areas  
[http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3461/][1]  
by Alan Zarembo

Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere might be contributing to the conversion of the world?s grasslands - critical for livestock grazing - into a landscape of useless woody shrubs, according to a study released Monday.

By artificially doubling carbon dioxide levels over enclosed sections of the Colorado prairie, researchers created a dramatic rise in Artemisia frigida, commonly known as fringed sage. 0828 03

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3461/ (http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3461/)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/higher-co-2-may-imperil-grasslands

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/higher-co-2-may-imperil-grasslands


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 13:17:04 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] "No security and no prosperity"
Message-ID: <20070828201704.20064.qmail@resist.ca>

No security and no prosperity  
The Leader-Post  
Published: Tuesday, August 28, 2007  
[http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/letters/story.html?id=d40a2d...][1]

On Aug. 22, there was a community forum on George W. Bush and Stephen Harper's "Security and Prosperity Partnership". The guest speaker was Peter Julian, NDP member of Parliament for Burnaby-New Westminster and critic on international trade.

This "security and prosperity partnership" doesn't offer security or prosperity for the majority of Canadians -- quite the opposite.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/letters/story.html?id=d40a2d91-52bf-4b36-b12a-da4691da178a (http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/letters/story.html?id=d40a2d91-52bf-4b36-b12a-da4691da178a)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/no-security-and-no-prosperity

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/no-security-and-no-prosperity


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 13:17:04 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Syncrude ordered to cut emissions from smelly pond
Message-ID: <20070828201704.20065.qmail@resist.ca>

Syncrude ordered to cut emissions from smelly pond  
Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:13 PM EDT143  
[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&stor...][1]

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Syncrude Canada Ltd has been ordered to clean up a settling pond at its northern Alberta oil sands project after it began emitting ammonia and small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas, Alberta environmental regulators said on Tuesday.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-08-28T181332Z_01_N28261210_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-SYNCRUDE-ENVIRONMENT-COL.XML&archived=False (http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-08-28T181332Z_01_N28261210_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-SYNCRUDE-ENVIRONMENT-COL.XML&archived=False)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/syncrude-ordered-cut-emissions-smelly-pond

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/syncrude-ordered-cut-emissions-smelly-pond


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 13:17:04 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Yet more ways to get [mock] oil from Alberta
Message-ID: <20070828201705.20066.qmail@resist.ca>

Squeezing oil from stones  
There are vast reserves of oil trapped within Alberta's rockbed - the trick is getting it out  
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070822.ROILSANDS22/TP...][1]  
NORVAL SCOTT

August 22, 2007

CALGARY -- OSUM Oil Sands Corp. believes it might have the answer to one of the oil patch's most perplexing problems - extracting the billions of barrels of crude trapped in Alberta's limestone deposits.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070822.ROILSANDS22/TPStory/Business (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070822.ROILSANDS22/TPStory/Business)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/yet-more-ways-get-mock-oil-alberta

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/yet-more-ways-get-mock-oil-alberta


From news at resist.ca  Tue Aug 28 13:17:04 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Application to build a Nuclear Reactor in Northern
	Alberta/Peace River
Message-ID: <20070828201705.20070.qmail@resist.ca>

Application to build a Nuclear Reactor in Northern Alberta/Peace River

Shaun Polczer, CanWest News Service  
Published: Tuesday, August 28, 2007  
[http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d5f7f6ae-00ce-4...][1]

The prospect of a nuclear-fuelled Alberta moved closer to reality after a Calgary-based company filed for a licence to build the province's first reactor.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d5f7f6ae-00ce-4119-a0fd-20388bb72e29&k=82870&p=1 (http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d5f7f6ae-00ce-4119-a0fd-20388bb72e29&k=82870&p=1)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/application-build-nuclear-reactor-northern-alberta-peace-river

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/application-build-nuclear-reactor-northern-alberta-peace-river


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 30 12:17:05 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:17:05 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tar Sands, Peak Oil and lack of New Discoveries
Message-ID: <20070830191705.6854.qmail@resist.ca>

Copyright 2007 The Calgary Herald.  
All Rights Reserved  
The Calgary Herald (Alberta)  
[http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=a...][1]  
August 30, 2007 Thursday  
Final Edition

SECTION: CALGARY BUSINESS; Deborah Yedlin; Pg. E1

LENGTH: 799 words

HEADLINE: Canada's oilsands bear the burden

BYLINE: Deborah Yedlin, Calgary Herald

BODY:

Anyone sounding the warning bells about oil prices crashing to earth  
in the wake of the ongoing liquidity crunch would be well advised to

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=aab769ea-2a7f-4ad6-b2b5-7f4fab4aa4ca (http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=aab769ea-2a7f-4ad6-b2b5-7f4fab4aa4ca)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-peak-oil-and-lack-new-discoveries

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-peak-oil-and-lack-new-discoveries


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 30 12:40:11 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:40:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] BC NDP Opposing Alberta Nuclear Plans
Message-ID: <20070830194012.25980.qmail@resist.ca>

Carole James is, of course, correct to oppose a dramatic *increase* in global warming emissions brought about by the tar sands-fueling proposed nuclear plant near Peace River Alberta. However, another point that needs to be made for British Columbians is the fact that Tilma-- The Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement-- makes between provinces the same kind of impact as Chapter 11 of NAFTA; if the plants are approved in Alberta, by 2009 in both provinces such will not be allowed to be "interfered or impeded" with. Precedents become above legislation. 

--M

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/bc-ndp-opposing-alberta-nuclear-plans

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/bc-ndp-opposing-alberta-nuclear-plans


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 30 12:40:11 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:40:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Think I'll Go Out to Alberta
Message-ID: <20070830194012.25982.qmail@resist.ca>

THINK I'LL GO OUT TO ALBERTA.

SCOTT HARRIS / [scott at vueweekly.com][1]

Greenpeace and its ilk set up shop to battle oilsands  
Opposition to the Alberta oil sands got a boost this August when international environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace opened the doors of its Edmonton office, becoming the first of a number of well-known environmental organizations to officially set up shop in Alberta to take on increased development in the north of the province.

[read more][2]

    [1]: mailto:scott at vueweekly.com
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/think-ill-go-out-alberta

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/think-ill-go-out-alberta


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 30 17:40:11 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:40:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Call for Moratorium on Mackenzie Gas Project
Message-ID: <20070831004011.30436.qmail@resist.ca>

Green Groups Seek Freeze on Canada Arctic Pipelines  
[http://www.cnbc.com/id/20516662][1]  
30 Aug 2007 | 03:33 PM ET

Regulators should slap a moratorium on pipelines in Canada's North because governments and oil companies have not planned for long-term environmental impacts, a green-group representative said Thursday.

Several environmental and social activists began submissions Thursday to the regulatory panel probing the C$16.2 billion ($15.3 billion) Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline on the proposed development's cumulative effects.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cnbc.com/id/20516662 (http://www.cnbc.com/id/20516662)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/call-moratorium-mackenzie-gas-project

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/call-moratorium-mackenzie-gas-project


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 30 18:17:22 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:17:22 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Keystone Pipeline hearings set in Missouri
Message-ID: <20070831011723.3234.qmail@resist.ca>

Keystone Pipeline hearings set  
[http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/CB3250...][1]  
08/30/2007

Public hearings on a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Keystone Pipeline are planned in St. Charles and Collinsville next week.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/CB32507986FAA24786257347001410FC?OpenDocument (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/CB32507986FAA24786257347001410FC?OpenDocument)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/keystone-pipeline-hearings-set-missouri

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/keystone-pipeline-hearings-set-missouri


From news at resist.ca  Thu Aug 30 21:17:08 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:17:08 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tar Sands the Only Reason Reserves Not Dropping
Message-ID: <20070831041708.22051.qmail@resist.ca>

Global oil reserves up only 1% last year  
Canada's Oilsands Sole Booster, Study Says  
Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post  
Published: Thursday, August 30, 2007  
[http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=7bd3bdc5-...][1]

CALGARY -- Record global oil and gas profits of US$243-billion and record spending of US$401-billion have resulted in a marginal 1% increase in world oil reserves last year -- all of it coming from a 1.9-billion-barrel addition from Canada's oilsands, according to a new study.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=7bd3bdc5-8af5-425a-9875-7507731c1c52&k=93003 (http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=7bd3bdc5-8af5-425a-9875-7507731c1c52&k=93003)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-only-reason-reserves-not-dropping

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-only-reason-reserves-not-dropping


From news at resist.ca  Fri Aug 31 17:40:23 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:40:23 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] The Sierra Club [USA] Greenwashes Al Gore
Message-ID: <20070901004024.7386.qmail@resist.ca>

August 30, 2007  
The Desecration of John Muir  
The Sierra Club Greenwashes Al Gore  
[http://counterpunch.org/donnelly08302007.html][1]  
By MICHAEL DONNELLY

The Sierra Club accelerated its plunge to environmental irrelevancy, firmly cementing its role as Democratic Party lapdog by awarding its highest award, the John Muir Award, to Carbon Off-set magnate, Al Gore, Jr.

The club announced this year's award with a fawning press release stating;

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://counterpunch.org/donnelly08302007.html (http://counterpunch.org/donnelly08302007.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/sierra-club-usa-greenwashes-al-gore

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/sierra-club-usa-greenwashes-al-gore


From news at resist.ca  Fri Aug 31 18:17:06 2007
From: news at resist.ca (Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental
	impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America)
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:17:06 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Factoring Sustainability Into Alberta's Tar Sands Project
Message-ID: <20070901011706.13819.qmail@resist.ca>

Factoring Sustainability Into Alberta's Tar Sands Project  
[http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007166.html][1]  
Mindy Lubber  
August 24, 2007 11:26 AM

There's much talk these days of capitalism and sustainability being increasingly interrelated -- that environmental and social impacts need to be included along with quarterly sales projections in corporate strategies and the financial bottom line. But why is this still more a concept than a reality, especially when it comes to a sustainability crisis like global warming?

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007166.html (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007166.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/factoring-sustainability-albertas-tar-sands-project

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/factoring-sustainability-albertas-tar-sands-project