From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 1 08:17:26 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 Dec 2007 16:17:26 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Mackenzie Valley pipeline hearings wrap up in Inuvik Message-ID: <20071201161726.18588.qmail@resist.ca> Since the hearings have successfully carried the lie and the crime against the environment of not being a cumulative impact assessment-- steadfastly ruling that the hearings could not cover the tar sands, and included denials and obfuscations of the final end goal of the natural gas being to help ramp up the ecological, genocidal and grotesquely anti-human tar sands operations north of Fort Muck, it should be VERY CLEAR why the North Central Corridor was officially announced only as the hearings on the MGP are finishing. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/mackenzie-valley-pipeline-hearings-wrap-inuvik URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/mackenzie-valley-pipeline-hearings-wrap-inuvik From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 1 08:41:01 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 Dec 2007 16:41:01 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] TransCanada vying for $30-billion pipeline project Message-ID: <20071201164102.4252.qmail@resist.ca> Excerpt: "Because construction isn't likely to begin before 2013 or 2014, the Alaska project isn't likely in direct competition with a plan to build a gas pipeline from the Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest Territories to Alberta. Mackenzie construction could start in late 2009 if it receives regulatory approval." [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/transcanada-vying-30billion-pipeline-project URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/transcanada-vying-30billion-pipeline-project From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 1 09:17:08 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: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] ConocoPhillips proposes natural gas Alaska pipeline to U.S., Canada Message-ID: <20071201171708.8467.qmail@resist.ca> Look at their plans, and look at the future pipeline grid. It is not about only getting gas to the US to heat homes, it is also about expanding the tar sands to unfathomable levels. They lie. ConocoPhilips lies. TransCanada lies. Imperial Lies. Suncor and Syncrude lie. They are not our partners, they are our enemies. Be clear about that. They lie. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/conocophillips-proposes-natural-gas-alaska-pipeline-us-canada URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/conocophillips-proposes-natural-gas-alaska-pipeline-us-canada From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 1 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: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] North-Central Corridor Map Message-ID: <20071201221704.16725.qmail@resist.ca> See the full fact sheet at: [http://www.transcanada.com/news/2007_news/20071121.html][1] [1]: http://www.transcanada.com/news/2007_news/20071121.html (http://www.transcanada.com/news/2007_news/20071121.html) URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/northcentral-corridor-map-0 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 2 18:40:11 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:40:11 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Canadian quarterly oil and banking profits rise Message-ID: <20071203024012.2307.qmail@resist.ca> Canadian quarterly oil and banking profits rise CanWest News Service OTTAWA -- The energy and banking industries spurred a 5.8-per-cent surge in Canadian third-quarter operating profits to a record high $67 billion, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. At least one analyst, however, warns the days of record profits may be coming to an end. Oil and banking accounted for almost half of the country's gains in operating profits, the government agency said. The biggest profit increases posted in the manufacturing sector were in motor vehicles, [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/canadian-quarterly-oil-and-banking-profits-rise URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/canadian-quarterly-oil-and-banking-profits-rise From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 2 19:40:10 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:40:10 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Ed Journal: Schindler Calls for halt to Tar Sands Message-ID: <20071203034010.9449.qmail@resist.ca> Halt oilsands: water expert Athabasca River at risk, says renowned U of A scientist Kate Jaimet, Ottawa Citizen; CanWest News Service Published: 8:59 am OTTAWA - The scientist who won Canada's top research prize for his work on pollution in the Great Lakes now wants a moratorium on development in the Alberta oilsands, saying the rush to extract petroleum could threaten the mighty Athabasca River. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/ed-journal-schindler-calls-halt-tar-sands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/ed-journal-schindler-calls-halt-tar-sands From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 2 20:17:31 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:17:31 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Yukon: Uranium exploration could open =?utf-8?b?UGFuZG9yYeKAmXM=?= box, critics fear Message-ID: <20071203041733.14161.qmail@resist.ca> Uranium exploration could open Pandora?s box, critics fear Wednesday, November 28, 2007 By Chris Oke Special to the Yukon News Cash Minerals? application to build a winter road along the Wind River Trail to further its search for uranium deposits concerns tourism and environmental groups. Most troubling is the very mineral the exploration company is searching for. For the past four years, Cash Minerals has been hunting for the radioactive metal. ?I see no reason why they shouldn?t mine uranium,? said Yukon Chamber of Mines president John Witham. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/yukon-uranium-exploration-could-open-pandora%E2%80%99s-box-critics-fear URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/yukon-uranium-exploration-could-open-pandora%E2%80%99s-box-critics-fear From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 2 20:17:32 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:17:32 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] NDP yet to break its silence on peak oil Message-ID: <20071203041733.14163.qmail@resist.ca> NDP yet to break its silence on peak oil News Features Publish Date: November 22, 2007 The federal Green party's B.C. organizer wonders how committed the NDP is to climate change and addressing peak oil, especially when its provincial leader, Carole James, drives a crossover SUV. Ben West told the Georgia Straight he was unaware that James owns a Subaru Forester?a cross between a regular car and an SUV?but said a "crossover" SUV sounds like the "definition of hypocrisy". "How often does she go off-roading? I'm curious," West said. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/ndp-yet-break-its-silence-peak-oil URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/ndp-yet-break-its-silence-peak-oil From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 3 15:17:05 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Settlers and natives, united against the government Message-ID: <20071203231705.13791.qmail@resist.ca> Settlers and natives, united against the government THIS COUNTRY: ONTARIO: URANIUM EXPLORATION Settlers and natives, united against the government ROY MacGREGOR December 3, 2007 Let us head down Snow Road on this morning when the plowed banks are higher than they have been any Dec. 3 for some time. Let us visit on a bitter weekend when Environment Canada has predicted the coldest winter in 15 years. And here let us talk about global warming - and the hints of heat to come in at least the next 15 years. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/settlers-and-natives-united-against-government URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/settlers-and-natives-united-against-government From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 3 15:17:05 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Hoaxers target Big Oil Message-ID: <20071203231705.13792.qmail@resist.ca> Hoaxers target Big Oil Monday December 3 2007 Environmental campaigners today appeared to have opened up a new front in the battle against Big Oil over climate change when they established a bogus website and sent out a press release committing BP, Shell and others to a 90% cut in carbon outputs by 2050 with no strings attached. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/hoaxers-target-big-oil URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/hoaxers-target-big-oil From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 3 15:40:23 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:40:23 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Akaicho Land Trust "Largest Ever" [Doesn't Include Entire Thelon Region] Message-ID: <20071203234023.17322.qmail@resist.ca> Akaicho Land Trust "Largest Ever" [Doesn't Include Entire Thelon Region] By LEA STORRY, SRJ Editor 30.NOV.07 Some historic and sacred places of the Akaitcho Dene First Nations have recently been protected for the time being by Ottawa. Approximately 62,000 sq km of land have been preserved from further development. ?It?s a good news story,? said Dennis Bevington, Western Arctic Member of Parliament (MP). ?It says a lot about the hard work and efforts the Akaitcho Dene First Nations have put into this.? [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/akaicho-land-trust-quotlargest-everquot-don039t-include-entire-thelon-region URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/akaicho-land-trust-quotlargest-everquot-don039t-include-entire-thelon-region From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 3 15:40:23 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:40:23 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Sharply drawn Journalism: Canadian Mining Comics Message-ID: <20071203234024.17323.qmail@resist.ca> Sharply drawn journalism Local publishers Cumulus Press combine reportage with comics to take a look at the mining industry TAR SANDS EXTRACTION PITS: >From Extraction! A ?Comix Reportage? by CHRISTOPHER HAZOU Local publishers Cumulus Press launch their first foray into the world of journalism and art this week with Extraction! A ?Comix Reportage? about the Canadian mining industry and its effects on people and the environment around the globe. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/sharply-drawn-journalism-canadian-mining-comics URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/sharply-drawn-journalism-canadian-mining-comics From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 3 15:40:23 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:40:23 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Royalties No Problem for Petro Can Message-ID: <20071203234024.17324.qmail@resist.ca> Petrocan chief backs oil sands despite royalties Overall viability won't be affected, says CEO Brenneman, but company's conventional oil and gas spending likely to be cut DAVID EBNER AND NORVAL SCOTT With files from Canadian Press November 29, 2007 CALGARY, EDMONTON -- Higher petroleum royalties in Alberta will not hurt the "overall viability" of Petro-Canada oil sands projects, but some planned investment in conventional oil and gas in the province will be affected, chief executive officer Ron Brenneman said yesterday. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/royalties-no-problem-petro-can URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/royalties-no-problem-petro-can From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 5 10:40:53 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, 05 Dec 2007 18:40:53 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] It's the Tar Sands, Stupid-- Canada home to global warming's new ground zero. Message-ID: <20071205184055.15387.qmail@resist.ca> It's the Tar Sands, Stupid PM Harper: Bali ballyhoo. Canada home to global warming's new ground zero. By Mitchell Anderson Published: December 4, 2007 email this article print this story TheTyee.ca 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. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/it039s-tar-sands-stupid-canada-home-global-warming039s-new-ground-zero URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/it039s-tar-sands-stupid-canada-home-global-warming039s-new-ground-zero From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 6 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, 06 Dec 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Rethinking the Implications of Climate Change and Peak Oil Message-ID: <20071206221705.24942.qmail@resist.ca> Rethinking the Implications of Climate Change and Peak Oil by Richard Heinberg MuseLetter #187 / November 2007 Environmental and development NGOs are now fixated on climate change to the exclusion of nearly every other topic. Discussions in and among these organizations center on capping carbon emissions and trading emissions rights, and doing this internationally in a way that will be deemed equitable by the global South and acceptable to the industrial Northern countries. Most of these policy organizations are seeking ways of implementing [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/rethinking-implications-climate-change-and-peak-oil URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/rethinking-implications-climate-change-and-peak-oil From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 6 23:17:06 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: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] UP IN SMOKE: a decade of Canadian inaction Message-ID: <20071207071707.19292.qmail@resist.ca> UP IN SMOKE Scott Harris / [scott at vueweekly.com][1] a decade of Canadian inaction [http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=7611][2] A decade after the international community agreed to the Kyoto Protocol, and five years since Parliament ratified the agreement, there isn?t a lot of good news about how Canada has done in living up to its international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [read more][3] [1]: mailto:scott at vueweekly.com [2]: http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=7611 (http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=7611) [3]: http://oilsandstruth.org/smoke-decade-canadian-inaction URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/smoke-decade-canadian-inaction From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 6 23:17:06 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: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Vancouver Launch of Dominion Special Tar Sands Issue Message-ID: <20071207071707.19293.qmail@resist.ca> What do you know about the largest industrial project in human history? EDUCATIONAL ON THE TAR SANDS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH 6:30 PM ROOM 2270 SFU HARBOUR CENTRE 515 WEST HASTINGS Come learn about the Alberta Oils Sands and its impact on indigenous rights, the environment, labour rights including migrant workers, as well as its global consequences in an era of oil-dependency, the War on Terror, and an expanding corporate regime through the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/vancouver-educational-tar-sands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/vancouver-educational-tar-sands From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 7 11:17:17 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: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:17:17 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] =?utf-8?b?4oCcVGhl?= oilsands will get their gas no matter what. =?utf-8?b?SXTigJhz?= =?iso-8859-1?q?everyone_else_who_needs_to_wo?= =?iso-8859-1?q?rry=2E=E2=80=98=E2=80=98?= Message-ID: <20071207191718.4322.qmail@resist.ca> Dec 6, 2007 1:00:00 PM MST TransCanada, Imperial led group to benefit from rumoured Mackenzie restructuring (TransCanada-Mackenzie) CALGARY _ Analysts say a reworking of the Mackenzie Gas Project will be a boon for all involved, with pipeline operator TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) likely to see major returns and the Imperial Oil-led consortium (TSX:IMO) of producers relieved of much of the cost burdens that have threatened to kill the entire energy project. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/%E2%80%9C-oilsands-will-get-their-gas-no-matter-what-it%E2%80%98s-everyone-else-who-needs-worry%E2%80%98%E2%80%98 URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/%E2%80%9C-oilsands-will-get-their-gas-no-matter-what-it%E2%80%98s-everyone-else-who-needs-worry%E2%80%98%E2%80%98 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 9 20:17:19 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: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) on "stemming" the tar sands Message-ID: <20071210041719.27573.qmail@resist.ca> The NRDC, another heavily Pew-funded member of Gang Green, makes these radical demands about the tar sands, in their fact sheet posted on the web-site of the Pew front-group, the International Boreal Conservation Campaign: "To immediately stem the development under way of tar sands projects in Canada?s Boreal forest, we should support conservation and environmentally sustainable development in the area, including: - Interconnected network of protected areas and corridors to maintain the ecological integrity of the Boreal forest and wildlife habitat. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/natural-resources-defence-council-nrdc-quotstemmingquot-tar-sands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/natural-resources-defence-council-nrdc-quotstemmingquot-tar-sands From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 9 20:17:19 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: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Pew Boreal Front Group Makes Non-Statement About the Tar Sands Message-ID: <20071210041719.27572.qmail@resist.ca> The International Boreal Conservation Campaign ([www.interboreal.org][1]) is another front group established by the Pew Charitable Trusts, much like the Canadian Boreal Initiative ([www.borealcanada.ca][2]). The Pew family built the original tar sands project, which became Suncor. Although the Pew family no longer owns Suncor, the family company Sunoco continues to refine much synthetic crude oil. This is their non-statement about the tar sands. Of course, no mention about a moratorium or a shut down. After all, Suncor is one of their partners in the Canadian Boreal Initiative..... [read more][3] [1]: http://www.interboreal.org (www.interboreal.org) [2]: http://www.borealcanada.ca (www.borealcanada.ca) [3]: http://oilsandstruth.org/pew-boreal-front-group-makes-nonstatement-about-tar-sands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/pew-boreal-front-group-makes-nonstatement-about-tar-sands From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 9 20:17:19 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: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The Pew goes to Bali to lobby for Boreal carbon credits at UN Climate Convention Message-ID: <20071210041719.27574.qmail@resist.ca> The Pew front groups and Gang Green are in Bali this week to lobby for boreal forest carbon credits. Faced with the unpleasant reality that the boreal forest is now likely a net carbon producer due to forest fires and insect outbreaks, all caused by global warming, the Pew are now lobbying to get the carbon stored in peatlands over thousands of years counted as carbon credits in the post-2012 Kyoto Treaty. If successful, this would set the Kyoto carbon emissions baseline back from 1990 to the time of the ice age! Please Join Us for a Forest Day Side-Event [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/pew-goes-bali-lobby-boreal-carbon-credits-un-climate-convention URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/pew-goes-bali-lobby-boreal-carbon-credits-un-climate-convention From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 10 22:17:04 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, 11 Dec 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The real answer to climate change is to leave fossil fuels in the ground Message-ID: <20071211061704.3708.qmail@resist.ca> Tuesday December 11, 2007 The Guardian [www.guardian.co.uk][1] The real answer to climate change is to leave fossil fuels in the ground All the talk in Bali about cutting carbon means nothing while ever more oil and coal is being extracted and burned By George Monbiot Ladies and gentlemen, I have the answer! Incredible as it might seem, I have stumbled across the single technology which will save us from runaway climate change! From the goodness of my heart, I offer it to you for free. No patents, no small print, no hidden clauses. Already this technology, a [read more][2] [1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk (www.guardian.co.uk) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/real-answer-climate-change-leave-fossil-fuels-ground URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/real-answer-climate-change-leave-fossil-fuels-ground From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 12 17:17:04 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, 13 Dec 2007 01:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The Pew Charitable Trusts want a kinder, gentler pipeline and tarsands Message-ID: <20071213011705.16124.qmail@resist.ca> The pipeline dream lurking in Canada's wild By Steve Kallick | December 10, 2007 ONE OF many ways to combat global warming is to replace our dirtiest, carbon-polluting fuels, especially coal and oil, with cleaner fuels like natural gas. So proponents of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, an 800-mile megaproject to tap into Canada's natural gas reserves, now say that's their plan. They want us to believe, somehow, that building this massive project through Canada's Boreal Forest wilderness will be good for the environment. Not surprisingly, a closer look at the facts suggests otherwise. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/pew-charitable-trusts-want-kinder-gentler-pipeline-and-tarsands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/pew-charitable-trusts-want-kinder-gentler-pipeline-and-tarsands From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 12 22:17:04 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, 13 Dec 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] CBC and more on the tar sands and Fort Chipewyan Message-ID: <20071213061705.18406.qmail@resist.ca> from George Poitras WELL. Below is a link of a documentary that was aired on this past Sunday's CBC News Sunday. I think its an excellent documentary for a number of reasons. The Fort Chipewyan residents including former Chief Archie Waquan, Donna Cyprien (Director of Nunee Health Authority), Georg Macdonald (Head of Nursing Station), Julie Mercredi (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Member) and Pat Marcel (Elder, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) did an awesome job of portraying the reality of our current situation. Thanks also to Dr. John [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/cbc-and-more-tar-sands-and-fort-chipewyan URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/cbc-and-more-tar-sands-and-fort-chipewyan From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 12 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, 13 Dec 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Tar Sands vs. Clean Water: Eating the Earth for Cars Message-ID: <20071213071704.25536.qmail@resist.ca> Tar Sands vs. Clean Water: Eating the Earth for Cars by Mark Robinowitz Global Research, December 11, 2007 oilempire.us The tar sands production center in northern Alberta in Canada is one of the clearest signs that the easy-to-get oil is on the wane. Tar sands are a low grade hydrocarbon deposit that requires enormous energy input to process and convert it into something resembling petroleum. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-vs-clean-water-eating-earth-cars URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-vs-clean-water-eating-earth-cars From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 12 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, 13 Dec 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Rigged Message-ID: <20071213071704.25537.qmail@resist.ca> The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply. by George Monbiot Published in the Guardian (December 11 2007) Ladies and gentlemen, I have the answer! Incredible as it might seem, I have stumbled across the single technology which will save us from runaway climate change! From the goodness of my heart I offer it to you for free. No patents, no small print, no hidden clauses. Already this technology, a radical new kind of carbon capture and storage, is causing a stir among scientists. It is cheap, it is efficient and it can be [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/rigged URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/rigged From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 12 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, 13 Dec 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Notes for the presidential candidates (Peak Oil) Message-ID: <20071213071704.25538.qmail@resist.ca> Notes for the presidential candidates by Dave Cohen The next president of the United States will have to confront the urgent problems attending rapid oil depletion in the OECD countries. The world's liquid fuels supply can no longer meet demand and global exports levels are set to decline. Oil prices are high, volatile and rising each year, which is likely a permanent condition in the markets while demand remains strong. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/notes-presidential-candidates-peak-oil URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/notes-presidential-candidates-peak-oil From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 12 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, 13 Dec 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] When $1.3-billion isn't that much Message-ID: <20071213071705.25540.qmail@resist.ca> When $1.3-billion isn't that much Dave Ebner, Globe and Mail December 12, 2007 at 6:39 PM EST The last sale of new oil and natural gas exploration rights in Alberta for the year was announced late Wednesday, with $68-million coming into the provincial treasury, boosting the total for the year to $1.29-billion. That?s the third-highest annual haul in the province?s history ? but it?s down more than 60 per cent from the record of $3.43-billion hit last year, and also lower than the $2.26-billion in 2005. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/when-13billion-isn039t-much URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/when-13billion-isn039t-much From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 14 13:17:03 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The Biggest Global Warming Crime in History Message-ID: <20071214211704.24344.qmail@resist.ca> The Biggest Global Warming Crime in History By Cahal Milmo, Independent UK. Posted December 13, 2007. The Canadian wilderness is set to be invaded by BP in an oil exploration project dubbed 'the biggest global warming crime' in history. BP, the British oil giant that pledged to move "Beyond Petroleum" by finding cleaner ways to produce fossil fuels, is being accused of abandoning its "green sheen" by investing nearly ?1.5bn to extract oil from the Canadian wilderness using methods which environmentalists say are part of the "biggest global warming crime" [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/biggest-global-warming-crime-history URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/biggest-global-warming-crime-history From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 14 13:17:03 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Petro-Canada increases investment in tar sands Message-ID: <20071214211704.24342.qmail@resist.ca> Petro-Canada increases investment in oil sands But company plans to lower its financial outlay for natural gas production in Western Canada NORVAL SCOTT December 14, 2007 CALGARY -- Petro-Canada has joined the parade of Canadian companies that are raising their total spending next year, but also cutting exploration in Alberta's conventional oil and gas sector. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/petrocanada-increases-investment-tar-sands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/petrocanada-increases-investment-tar-sands From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 14 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Kinder Morgan announces the "Chinook Pipeline" proposal to export bitumen to Texas Message-ID: <20071214211704.24345.qmail@resist.ca> Kinder joins Enbridge in race DAVID EBNER December 13, 2007 [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/kinder-morgan-announces-quotchinook-pipelinequot-proposal-export-bitumen-texas URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/kinder-morgan-announces-quotchinook-pipelinequot-proposal-export-bitumen-texas From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 14 13:17:03 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "B.C. shale gas set to be next generation's tar sands" Message-ID: <20071214211704.24343.qmail@resist.ca> B.C. shale gas set to be next generation's oil sands PATRICK BRETHOUR December 14, 2007 VANCOUVER -- In the remote north of the province, there is a vast warehouse of hydrocarbons lurking in difficult geology, waiting for the right combination of technology, economics and entrepreneurial guts to free them. A generation ago, that description applied to Alberta and its oil sands. Today, that scenario is playing out in British Columbia and its shale gas fields where trillions - yes, that is a T - of cubic feet of natural gas could be on their way to market. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotbc-shale-gas-set-be-next-generation039s-tar-sandsquot URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotbc-shale-gas-set-be-next-generation039s-tar-sandsquot From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 14 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "It's war on city crime dens"-- The other side of the Alberta Boom Message-ID: <20071214221704.32454.qmail@resist.ca> It's war on city crime dens Houses of drugs and prostitution to be targeted in new enforcement program By FRANK LANDRY, CITY HALL BUREAU Thu, December 6, 2007 Edmonton's top drug-house-busting cop welcomes the province's plan to crack down on crime dens. Sgt. Maurice Brodeur sees the initiative working hand in hand with the program he runs, the Edmonton Police Service's Report A Drug House program. "Too long, these little disorder houses ... have caused a lot of grief in neighbourhoods," Brodeur told Sun Media. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotit039s-war-city-crime-densquot-other-side-alberta-boom URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotit039s-war-city-crime-densquot-other-side-alberta-boom From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 14 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Bruce Power looks at Alberta facility (for Nuclear Reactors) Message-ID: <20071214221705.32455.qmail@resist.ca> Bruce Power looks at Alberta facility By The Canadian Press Published: 12/14/2007 - Vol. 3, No. 25 An Ontario-based company that operates Canada's first private nuclear electricity generating plant wants to build a similar facility in Alberta. Bruce Power has announced plans to buy Energy Alberta Corp., which has already begun preliminary work on a proposal to build a nuclear plant in the Peace River area about 350 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. The company says any decisions it makes will rely heavily on having a willing community. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/bruce-power-looks-alberta-facility URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/bruce-power-looks-alberta-facility From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 14 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Crude awakening: Why are environmentalists asleep at the tar sands wheel? Message-ID: <20071214221705.32456.qmail@resist.ca> Crude awakening Why are environmentalists asleep at the tar sands wheel? BY Dru Oja Jay Alberta?s tar sands are on pace to become the largest industrial project in human history. The development will arguably become the single most environmentally destructive undertaking in Canadian history. The response from environmental groups and progressives has been meek. St?phane Dion told The New York Times in 2005 that, ?There is no environmental minister on Earth who can stop the oil from coming out of the sand, because the money is too big.? [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/crude-awakening-why-are-environmentalists-asleep-tar-sands-wheel URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/crude-awakening-why-are-environmentalists-asleep-tar-sands-wheel From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 14 15:17:04 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Water becomes the new oil as world runs dry Message-ID: <20071214231704.22134.qmail@resist.ca> "At a City briefing by an international bank last week, a senior executive said: 'Today everyone is talking about global warming, but my prediction is that in two years water will move to the top of the geopolitical agenda.'" Water becomes the new oil as world runs dry Western companies have the know-how - and the financial incentive - to supply water to poor nations. But, as Richard Wachman reports, their involvement is already provoking unrest * Richard Wachman * The Observer, * Sunday December 9 2007 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/09/water.climatechange][1] [read more][2] [1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/09/water.climatechange (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/09/water.climatechange) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/water-becomes-new-oil-world-runs-dry URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/water-becomes-new-oil-world-runs-dry From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 14 17:17:07 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: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] our daughter DARINA WAS KILLED IN FORT MCMURRAY ON JUNE 30TH 2007. Message-ID: <20071215011708.20717.qmail@resist.ca> This email was sent to our contact form on December 13, 2007. I reproduce a copy of it unaltered below. --M ----------- our daughter DARINA WAS KILLED IN FORT MCMURRAY ON JUNE 30TH 2007. see google darina valentik THERE WAS A INVESTIGATION INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HER DEATH. HER DEATH IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE LACK OF SAFETY IN FORT MCMURRAY & THE OIL SANDS INDUSTRY. SHE WAS EMPLOYED BY CHIEF HAULING TRUCKING COMPANY, SUB CONTRACTORS TO ATHABASCA NORTHERN RAIL. (CANDO) SHE WAS IN TRAINING, NO SUPERVISOR, NO ONE AT THE CONTROLS, SHE WAS WORKING 16 HOUR DAYS. WHAT [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/our-daughter-darina-was-killed-fort-mcmurray-june-30th-2007 URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/our-daughter-darina-was-killed-fort-mcmurray-june-30th-2007 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 15 01:18:15 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: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:18:15 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] More Pew wishy washy cabbage talk about the tar sands: What is it about "STOP!" that they don't understand? Message-ID: <20071215091817.25130.qmail@resist.ca> The Pew has apparently launched an all-out international media blitz about the tar sands, yet their actual position on the tar sands becomes murkier day by day. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that the Pew family built the first tar sands project in 1967 and that the Pew family continues to refine large amounts of mock oil through its company Sunoco. And that Suncor is also a partner in the Canadian Boreal Initiative. - Tarpit Pete Green leaves, black gold By Sheila McNulty Financial Times London [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/more-pew-wishy-washy-cabbage-talk-about-tar-sands-what-it-about-quotstopquot-they-don039t-understand URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/more-pew-wishy-washy-cabbage-talk-about-tar-sands-what-it-about-quotstopquot-they-don039t-understand From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 16 18:17:23 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: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:17:23 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Canada's tar sands are fueling U.S. cars - but at what cost? Message-ID: <20071217021723.18595.qmail@resist.ca> Canada's oil sands are fueling U.S. cars - but at what cost? McClatchy Newspapers Published Sunday, December 16, 2007 FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alberta ? Like a great silver snake, the Athabasca River glides though a spongy-wet wilderness of spindly forests, lakes and marshes 650 miles north of the U.S.-Canada border. Breathe deeply, though, and you catch a whiff of fresh, hot tar. In the river, fish are speckled with shiny, wart-like blisters. And in the tiny Indian village of Fort Chipewyan, people are coming down with leukemia, bile duct cancer and other diseases. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/canada039s-tar-sands-are-fueling-us-cars-what-cost URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/canada039s-tar-sands-are-fueling-us-cars-what-cost From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 16 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: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Peak Phosphorus Message-ID: <20071217071704.8299.qmail@resist.ca> by Bill Totten (December 11 2007) In an article I posted here on December 9th entitled "What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?" Richard Heinberg refers to the peaking of another valuable, but finite, resource: "Phosphorus is set to become much more scarce and expensive, according to a study by Patrick Dery, a Canadian agriculture and environment analyst and consultant. Using data from the US Geological Survey, Dery performed a peaking analysis on phosphate rock, similar to the techniques used by petroleum geologists to forecast declines in production from oilfields. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-phosphorus URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-phosphorus From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 17 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: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Comments of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (Submission on the Alberta Clipper) Message-ID: <20071217211704.3522.qmail@resist.ca> December 7, 2007 BY ELECTRONIC AND U.S. MAIL Ms. Elizabeth Orlando OES/ENV Room 2657 U.S. Department of State Washington, D.C. 20520 Re: Enbridge Pipeline Projects; Alberta Clipper Comments of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy Dear Ms. Orlando: These comments are submitted on behalf of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (?MCEA?). MCEA is a Minnesota-based non-profit environmental organization whose mission is to use law, science, and research to preserve and protect Minnesota?s natural resources, wildlife, and the health of its [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/comments-minnesota-center-environmental-advocacy-submission-alberta-clipper URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/comments-minnesota-center-environmental-advocacy-submission-alberta-clipper From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 17 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: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Yikes! : "Prentice reviewing Mackenzie Valley pipeline financial plan" Message-ID: <20071217221704.12200.qmail@resist.ca> Prentice reviewing Mackenzie Valley pipeline financial plan Jon Harding, Financial Post Published: Sunday, December 16, 2007 The proposed pipeline would run through the Mackenzie Valley.HO/AFP/Getty ImagesThe proposed pipeline would run through the Mackenzie Valley. CALGARY -- Canada's Industry Minister Jim Prentice is reviewing a financial plan submitted to him Friday by the backers of the $16.2-billion Mackenzie Gas Project. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/yikes-quotprentice-reviewing-mackenzie-valley-pipeline-financial-planquot URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/yikes-quotprentice-reviewing-mackenzie-valley-pipeline-financial-planquot From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 17 15:17:27 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: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:17:27 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Walruses Die; Global Warming Blamed Message-ID: <20071217231730.7041.qmail@resist.ca> Walruses Die; Global Warming Blamed By DAN JOLING Associated Press Writer Dec 14th, 2007 | ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers. The deaths took place during the late summer and fall on the Russian side of the Bering Strait, which separates Alaska from Russia. "It was a pretty [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/walruses-die-global-warming-blamed URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/walruses-die-global-warming-blamed From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 18 13:17:18 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: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:17:18 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Feds to streamline entirely new Mackenzie Gas Project Message-ID: <20071218211719.16868.qmail@resist.ca> Prentice pledges speedy review of new gas project plan Last Updated: Monday, December 17, 2007 | 2:18 PM CT CBC News Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice has promised proponents of the beleaguered Mackenzie gas project he will review their latest financial plan as quickly as possible. Prentice met with representatives of Imperial Oil, its parent ExxonMobil, Shell Canada, ConocoPhillips and the Aboriginal Pipeline Group, composed of the Inuvialuit, the Gwich'in and the Sahtu First Nations in Calgary on Friday. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/feds-streamline-entirely-new-mackenzie-gas-project URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/feds-streamline-entirely-new-mackenzie-gas-project From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 18 15:17:05 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, 18 Dec 2007 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Fidel Castro Responds to the Bali Talks Message-ID: <20071218231705.20227.qmail@resist.ca> Fidel?s message to the Roundtable Havana, December 17, 2007 Dear Randy: I listened to the entire ?Roundtable? program on Thursday the 13th without missing a single second of it. The news about the Bali Conference highlighted by Rogelio Polanco, editor-in-chief of Juventud Rebelde, confirms the importance of the international agreements and why they must be taken very seriously. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/fidel-castro-responds-bali-talks URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/fidel-castro-responds-bali-talks From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 20 18:17:18 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: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:17:18 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Mackenzie partners see Ottawa aid Message-ID: <20071221021719.20465.qmail@resist.ca> Mackenzie partners see Ottawa aid But No Financial Pledge Jon Harding, Financial Post Published: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 CALGARY - Partners in the Mackenzie Gas Project have asked Ottawa to treat their stalled megaproject like Newfoundland's Hibernia project or the Syncrude Canada Ltd. oilsands mine in Alberta, both of which got federal support. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/mackenzie-partners-see-ottawa-aid URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/mackenzie-partners-see-ottawa-aid From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 20 18:17:18 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: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:17:18 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Fargo, North Dakota Approves Keystone Pipeline Message-ID: <20071221021719.20466.qmail@resist.ca> Fargo mayor says he had hoped for pipeline support from other cities Andrea Domaskin, The Forum Published Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Mayor Dennis Walaker says Fargo didn?t get much help from other cities when it protested an oil pipeline that would run near Lake Ashtabula and the Sheyenne River. ?I don?t want this thing to blow out of proportion by any stretch of the imagination,? Walaker said today. ?I was hoping we would get more support, but we didn?t.? Fargo city commissioners approved a settlement Monday with TransCanada Keystone Pipeline. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/fargo-north-dakota-approves-keystone-pipeline URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/fargo-north-dakota-approves-keystone-pipeline From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 20 18:17:19 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, 21 Dec 2007 02:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] [Yukon] Peel Plateau to be sacrficed for Mackenzie Gas Project? Message-ID: <20071221021719.20467.qmail@resist.ca> This region is one of the most spectacular, beautiful and nearly pristine regions I have ever seen in my life. Near the one gas pump and lodge on the 10 hour drive of the Dempster Highway called Eagle Plains, this place is one where the planet itself made me feel so tiny and insignificant, like an insect, a surreal experience that I have no parallel for. Now they want to plunder it for gas, gas they want to put into the Mackenzie Gas Project and send to Fort McMurray to make mock oil from tar and the devastation of more land than can be comprehended. Shall we let them? --M [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/yukon-peel-plateau-be-sacrficed-mackenzie-gas-project URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/yukon-peel-plateau-be-sacrficed-mackenzie-gas-project From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 21 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: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] RAMPANT DEVELOPMENT RAISES RESIDENTS' CONCERN ABOUT THE FUTURE IN THE HEARTLAND Message-ID: <20071221211704.20825.qmail@resist.ca> Samantha Power / [samantha at vueweekly.com][1] [http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=7708][2] Calculating the amount of sulfur dioxide in the air is not something many Edmontonians think to do. But Maureen and Dennis Chichak make sure they check it at their home on a daily basis. The Chichak home is located just outside of Fort Saskatchewan, in the 330 square kilometres known as the Industrial Heartland, and with their neighbours having grown over three decades to include Shell, Agrium and Dow, they?re regularly exposed to sulfur dioxide, benzene [read more][3] [1]: mailto:samantha at vueweekly.com [2]: http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=7708 (http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=7708) [3]: http://oilsandstruth.org/rampant-development-raises-residents039-concern-about-future-heartland URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/rampant-development-raises-residents039-concern-about-future-heartland From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 21 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: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] WHAT?? "'Over the top' pipeline could work for Alaska and Canada" Message-ID: <20071221211704.20826.qmail@resist.ca> This idea (and I use that term loosely) has been pushed for a long time, and is a disaster on so many levels. This was explicitly spelled out by Tom Berger himself 'back in the day' as a truly horrible idea. It is also illegal in Alaskan state law. The idea has not improved with age. --M 'Over the top' pipeline could work for Alaska and Canada COMPASS: Points of view from the community By MICHAEL KENNY Published: December 20th, 2007 06:44 AM [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/what-quot039over-top039-pipeline-could-work-alaska-and-canadaquot URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/what-quot039over-top039-pipeline-could-work-alaska-and-canadaquot From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 22 14:17:05 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: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Utah: BLM identifies oil shale-rich areas it would consider leasing Message-ID: <20071222221705.19976.qmail@resist.ca> Land has energy promise BLM identifies oil shale-rich areas it would consider leasing By Steven Oberbeck The Salt Lake Tribune 12/22/2007 02:42:48 AM MST Entrepreneurs who dream of reaping huge profits from Utah's extensive oil shale and tar sands deposits now have reason to hope that the opportunity to commercially develop those resources is a bit closer. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/utah-blm-identifies-oil-shalerich-areas-it-would-consider-leasing URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/utah-blm-identifies-oil-shalerich-areas-it-would-consider-leasing From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 22 14:17:05 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: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Shell Oil and the Institutions Greenwashing them feel the =?utf-8?b?4oCYSGVhdOKAmQ==?= Message-ID: <20071222221705.19978.qmail@resist.ca> [from: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/388120.html] It hasn?t been an easy week for the organisers of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award and the Bristol Museum, or their sponsor and proud wildlife destroyer? sugardaddy Shell Oil Company. All week, concerned individuals from around Bristol have been exposing the truth about Shell and the public institutions who are helping to greenwash them. $%@* SHELL! [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/shell-oil-and-institutions-greenwashing-them-feel-%E2%80%98heat%E2%80%99 URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/shell-oil-and-institutions-greenwashing-them-feel-%E2%80%98heat%E2%80%99 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 22 14:17:05 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: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Tories, Liberals hack each other, sell carbon credits and sacrifice planet Message-ID: <20071222221705.19977.qmail@resist.ca> Ottawa too partisan on emissions Dec 17, 2007 04:30 AM Ian Urquhart Under the proposed federal emissions trading program, tar sands developers will be eligible for up to $700 million in "carbon credits" ? even as they increase their greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, Ontario will get nothing for closing its coal-fired plants, thereby eliminating about half of the province's greenhouse gas emissions. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tories-liberals-hack-each-other-sell-carbon-credits-and-sacrifice-planet URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tories-liberals-hack-each-other-sell-carbon-credits-and-sacrifice-planet From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 22 15:17:07 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: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:17:07 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Albian to try and push production to physics limitations Message-ID: <20071222231707.10221.qmail@resist.ca> Translation, in short: Royal Dutch Shell (Albian Sands) plans to expand as much as the physics allows and beyond that which (current) labour markets have room for. This all well-timed to move along lock step with the expansion of Temporary Foreign Worker programs, and in tandem with the reduction in labour and environmental standards being "phased in" under the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement" [Tilma]. These plans are to create new vast mines, expand the upgraders, blow the Muskeg River Mine into the stratosphere and much, much more. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/albian-try-and-push-production-physics-limitations URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/albian-try-and-push-production-physics-limitations From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 23 19:17:19 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: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Aboriginal title at risk in British Columbia Message-ID: <20071224031719.7340.qmail@resist.ca> Aboriginal title at risk in British Columbia Ann Rogers Freedom Socialist Newspaper, Vol. 28, No. 6 December 2007 ? January, 2008 Almost all of British Columbia in Canada is unceded indigenous territory. Its land and resources have not been given up by treaty, but occupied and stolen. In recent decades, a growing sovereignty movement, especially among young people, has offered fierce resistance to the continued theft and corporate development that threatens Native peoples? means of survival and existence as nations. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/aboriginal-title-risk-british-columbia URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/aboriginal-title-risk-british-columbia From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 25 15:17:04 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, 25 Dec 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Temporary Labour or Disposable Workers? Message-ID: <20071225231704.2866.qmail@resist.ca> Temporary Labour or Disposable Workers? Foreign labourers are brought to the tar sands, but are easily sent home by Tim Murphy The Dominion - [http://www.dominionpaper.ca][1] "So you believe in the free market?" "Well, it's not so much that I believe in the free market, it's that I demand logical consistency out of those who demand the free market," answers Jason Foster, director of Policy Analysis for the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL). [read more][2] [1]: http://www.dominionpaper.ca (http://www.dominionpaper.ca) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/temporary-labour-or-disposable-workers URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/temporary-labour-or-disposable-workers From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 25 15:17:04 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, 25 Dec 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Alberta's Averted Energy Tradesworker General Strike and the Fall Wildcat Walk-Outs Message-ID: <20071225231705.2867.qmail@resist.ca> November 22, 2007 Letting the Wildcat Out of the Bag Alberta's Averted Energy Tradesworker General Strike and the Fall Wildcat Walk-Outs by Stuart Neatby The Dominion - [http://www.dominionpaper.ca][1] [read more][2] [1]: http://www.dominionpaper.ca (http://www.dominionpaper.ca) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta039s-averted-energy-tradesworker-general-strike-and-fall-wildcat-walkouts URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta039s-averted-energy-tradesworker-general-strike-and-fall-wildcat-walkouts From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 26 13:17:09 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: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:17:09 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] After The Techno-Fix Message-ID: <20071226211710.17160.qmail@resist.ca> After The Techno-Fix by Peter Goodchild Countercurrents.org (December 22 2007) "Even when grappling with the idea of economic disintegration, Americans attempt to cast it in terms of technological or economic progress: eco-villages, sustainable development, energy efficiency and so on. Under the circumstances, such compulsive techno-optimism seems maladaptive." -- Dmitry Orlov, "Our Village" The path beyond petroleum begins by considering five principles: that alternative sources of energy are insufficient; that hydrocarbons, [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/after-technofix URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/after-technofix From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 31 17:18:16 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, 01 Jan 2008 01:18:16 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Biofuels, the Biggest Scam Going Message-ID: <20080101011816.21721.qmail@resist.ca> December 28, 2007 Greenwashing Energy Crops Biofuels, the Biggest Scam Going By JIM GOODMAN [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/biofuels-biggest-scam-going URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/biofuels-biggest-scam-going From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 31 17:18:16 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, 01 Jan 2008 01:18:16 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] What the Tar Sands Need Message-ID: <20080101011816.21722.qmail@resist.ca> What the Tar Sands Need Processing requires massive inputs of water, energy, land, labour December 31, 2007 by Dru Oja Jay The Dominion - [http://www.dominionpaper.ca][1] Water For each barrel of oil produced from the tar sands, between two and 4.5 barrels of water is needed. The water is used in the process of extracting bitumen from the naturally occurring the tar sand. The bitumen is later "upgraded" into synthetic crude oil. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.dominionpaper.ca (http://www.dominionpaper.ca) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/what-tar-sands-need URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/what-tar-sands-need From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 31 17:18:16 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, 01 Jan 2008 01:18:16 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Canadian National acquires tar sands rail line Message-ID: <20080101011817.21723.qmail@resist.ca> Canadian National acquires oil sands rail line Canadian National Railway (CN) has acquired the Athabasca Northern Railway in Alberta for $25.3 million and plans to invest as much as $136 million to upgrade the rail link to the oil sands region of Northern Alberta. Athabasca Northern, which runs from Boyle, Alberta, to near Fort McMurray, Alberta, had been owned by Cando Contracting, but Reuters reports it was threatened with abandonment because of deteriorating tracks. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/canadian-national-acquires-tar-sands-rail-line URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/canadian-national-acquires-tar-sands-rail-line From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 31 19:17:56 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, 01 Jan 2008 03:17:56 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Alta. road dubbed Death Highway Message-ID: <20080101031756.14696.qmail@resist.ca> Alta. road dubbed Death Highway Jim Farrell, CanWest News Service Published: Friday, December 28, 2007 EDMONTON -- Lucille Cloutier says her brother would still be alive if the road to Fort McMurray, Alta. had been twinned in the past year. "Last year they only put one construction crew on to work on 240 kilometres of road," said Cloutier, whose 41-year-old brother Guy was killed Nov. 8 while trying to avoid an out-of-control vehicle. "If they had put 10 road crews on the job, it would be twinned by now and my brother would still be alive." [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/alta-road-dubbed-death-highway URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/alta-road-dubbed-death-highway