From ron at resist.ca  Wed May  2 15:01:35 2007
From: ron at resist.ca (ron)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:01:35 -0700
Subject: [Ost-news] test to news list
Message-ID: <46390A3F.9040708@resist.ca>

this "should just work".
-- 
http://mostlywater.org


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:15 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, 03 May 2007 01:17:15 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Sunoco Gives More to Democrats now than Republicans
Message-ID: <20070503011716.26447.qmail@resist.ca>

The tactic being assumed by all the major players in the tarsands as of late is to pretend to love the earth too, but just that they have a different idea of what it will take to save the atmosphere and, well, life. This is right up the alley of the Democratic Party, who have a long history of pretending to care about green causes while assassinating all legislative and participatory attempts to make them back it up. 

Nor is it at all surprising that Sunoco would be involved today. The story of Sunoco in tarsands?

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/sunoco-gives-more-democrats-now-republicans

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/sunoco-gives-more-democrats-now-republicans


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:15 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, 03 May 2007 01:17:15 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tar Sands Completely Untouched by "Green Plan"
Message-ID: <20070503011716.26448.qmail@resist.ca>

When we are able to chart where the tar sands are going, and by adding up the component plans that are already announced we can, the sheer size and scope makes ignoring them or allowing -- as the article says-- for "business as usual" a complete, total surrender to being decimated by climate change. Mr Harper has already had private meetings with the US Dep't of Energy and Natural Resources Canada, along with the oil executives.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-completely-untouched-green-plan

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-completely-untouched-green-plan


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:15 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, 03 May 2007 01:17:15 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Norway Buys Into Tar Sands
Message-ID: <20070503011716.26450.qmail@resist.ca>

It is going to be incredibly illustrative how Canadian elites treat this-- if it gets a mention in more than stating-the-facts ways such as this announcement below. Silence would be every bit as loud. A major, non-private oil corporation for a 'foreign' country (that is, not the United States or Canada) has purchased Calgary based North American Oil Sands. Will the same level of fear mongering that accompanied Chinese investments be unleashed, along with a 'white peril' thinly veiled reference to base reactions towards Norway? 

I seriously doubt it.

--M

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/norway-buys-tar-sands

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/norway-buys-tar-sands


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:16 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: Thu, 03 May 2007 01:17:16 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] TransCanada to extend reach of Keystone right to the
	East Coast
Message-ID: <20070503011717.26462.qmail@resist.ca>

Yet another great example of how impossible it is for a democratic discussion for the people of all of North America to be commenced without a realistic environmental impacts assessment from the tarsands-- an assessment that must take place for the entire continent, necessary components therein, and all of the "natural extensions" that will "guarantee the lifetime" of this or that pipeline (For example in the Mackenzie Valley-- stage one of the pipeline would ultimately lead to a decimation of the Colville Lake/Sahtu region through a gazillion and one gas pads).

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/transcanada-extend-reach-keystone-right-east-coast

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/transcanada-extend-reach-keystone-right-east-coast


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:15 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, 03 May 2007 01:17:15 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and Peak Oil
Message-ID: <20070503011716.26449.qmail@resist.ca>

Published on 24 Apr 2007 by Energy Bulletin / Whiskey & Gunpowder. Archived on 25 Apr 2007.  
Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and Peak Oil  
[http://www.energybulletin.net/29162.html][1]  
by Byron King

I HAVE RECEIVED more correspondence from Ali Samsam Bakhtiari of Tehran, Iran. I want to bring Dr. Bakhtiari's important work to the attention of the readers of Whiskey & Gunpowder.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.energybulletin.net/29162.html (http://www.energybulletin.net/29162.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/ali-samsam-bakhtiari-and-peak-oil

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/ali-samsam-bakhtiari-and-peak-oil


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:16 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: Thu, 03 May 2007 01:17:16 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Energy Alberta Announces Plans for Nuclear Plant near
	Whitecourt, Elsewhere
Message-ID: <20070503011717.26451.qmail@resist.ca>

Nuclear power plant proposed for Whitecourt

Energy Alberta Corporation, an Alberta-based energy company, is actively looking at the town of Whitecourt and other Alberta communities as a potential host for a nuclear power plant.  
[http://www.whitecourtstar.com/News/303973.html][1]  
Tuesday May 01, 2007

The company has said they expect the plant to be part of an exciting new venture that will benefit Alberta for decades to come and will provide clean, emission free power required by the ever-growing oil sands projects.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.whitecourtstar.com/News/303973.html (http://www.whitecourtstar.com/News/303973.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/energy-alberta-announces-plans-nuclear-plant-near-whitecourt-elsewhere

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/energy-alberta-announces-plans-nuclear-plant-near-whitecourt-elsewhere


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:16 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: Thu, 03 May 2007 01:17:16 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] [Tarsand Mock] Oiling up the Coast: Proposed tanker
	route into Kitimat.
Message-ID: <20070503011717.26455.qmail@resist.ca>

[Tarsand Mock] Oiling up the Coast  
Proposed tanker route into Kitimat.  
Harper shrugs off 35-year ban on risky tanker traffic.  
By David Beers April 30, 2007  
TheTyee.ca

People on British Columbia's north coast have come to rely on a couple of assumptions.

One, oil tankers are forbidden to sail close to their jagged shore. Too risky.

Two, Albertans and their oil schemes are a safe, comfortable distance away.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tarsand-mock-oiling-coast-proposed-tanker-route-kitimat

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tarsand-mock-oiling-coast-proposed-tanker-route-kitimat


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:16 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: Thu, 03 May 2007 01:17:16 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] TransCanada prefers Coal Power to Nuclear;
	Ruling nothing out for Tar Sands Power
Message-ID: <20070503011718.26463.qmail@resist.ca>

TransCanada considers Alberta nuclear source  
[http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/208153][1]  
Apr 27, 2007 07:02 PM  
Dina O'Meara  
Canadian press

CALGARY?Pipeline and power giant TransCanada Corp. (TSX: TRP) said today coal is still king in Alberta, but that building a nuclear power plant in Western Canada could be an option in the future.

"The way we look at it, nuclear is primarily an option for supplying electricity demand in Alberta, long-term" Hal Kvisle, president and chief executive said, following the company's annual meeting.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/208153 (http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/208153)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/transcanada-prefers-coal-power-nuclear-ruling-nothing-out-tar-sands-power

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/transcanada-prefers-coal-power-nuclear-ruling-nothing-out-tar-sands-power


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:16 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: Thu, 03 May 2007 01:17:16 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Dakotas look to Fast Track Keystone Pipeline from
	Tarsands
Message-ID: <20070503011718.26456.qmail@resist.ca>

Oil pipeline on fast track  
[http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070429/NEWS/7042...][1]  
Firm hopes to pump 435,000 barrels per day under S.D. by 2009  
By Peter Harriman  
[pharrima at argusleader.com][2]  
April 29, 2007

For South Dakotans used to seeing large projects such as the Dakota Minnesota & Eastern Railroad expansion toil for years to gain regulatory approval and fight legal challenges, a proposed oil pipeline through eastern South Dakota appears to be moving at astonishing speed.

[read more][3]

    [1]: http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070429/NEWS/704290324/1001 (http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070429/NEWS/704290324/1001)
    [2]: mailto:pharrima at argusleader.com
    [3]: http://oilsandstruth.org/dakotas-look-fast-track-keystone-pipeline-tarsands

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/dakotas-look-fast-track-keystone-pipeline-tarsands


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  2 18:17:17 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: Thu, 03 May 2007 01:17:17 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Coast Tsimshian to take 'Direct Action' against Port
	Construction in Prince Rupert
Message-ID: <20070503011718.26470.qmail@resist.ca>

This new port development, lauded as a part of a Canadian strategy to open up a Gateway to the Asia Pacific, is all a part of the new plans to make northern BC-- in Prince Rupert and further into the shoreline at what is commonly called Kitimat-- a major hub for bringing in diluent fuels from Russia while shipping Tarsand mock oil to China and California.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/coast-tsimshian-take-direct-action-against-port-construction-prince-rupert

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/coast-tsimshian-take-direct-action-against-port-construction-prince-rupert


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  3 11:17:25 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, 03 May 2007 18:17:25 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Grandmother from Colorado Versus Syncrude
Message-ID: <20070503181726.25991.qmail@resist.ca>

U.S. activist takes on Syncrude  
Colorado woman 'appalled' by the energy used at the Alberta tar sands operation  
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070503.OILSANDS03/TPS...][1]  
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT  
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER

Syncrude Canada Ltd. has picked an unlikely David-and-Goliath-type battle with a feisty 85-year-old Colorado grandmother over a website she created that portrays the giant energy company in an unflattering light over the environmental costs of the tar sands.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070503.OILSANDS03/TPStory/National (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070503.OILSANDS03/TPStory/National)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/grandmother-colorado-versus-syncrude

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/grandmother-colorado-versus-syncrude


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  3 11:17:26 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: Thu, 03 May 2007 18:17:26 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Nuclear Power for Alberta being labelled "Inevitable"
Message-ID: <20070503181728.25993.qmail@resist.ca>

The language of "inevitability" is the only thing that is truly inevitable. A rule of thumb for something that your instincts tell you may not be a good idea and perhaps might see opposition is that the moment it is treated as "inevitable" means that those who plan such things truly fear it is actually not at all inevitable.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/nuclear-power-alberta-being-labelled-inevitable

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/nuclear-power-alberta-being-labelled-inevitable


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  3 11:17:26 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: Thu, 03 May 2007 18:17:26 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] China's consul general flies to Fort McMurray
Message-ID: <20070503181727.25992.qmail@resist.ca>

China's consul general flies to Fort McMurray  
Meets with 120 Chinese workers after fatal accident  
[http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=0166748b-62c8-4...][1]  
Published: Friday, April 27, 2007

EDMONTON Chinas Calgary-based consul general flew to Fort McMurray Friday to meet with a group of Chinese workers based at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.s Horizon oilsands project in the wake of a workplace accident that left two men dead and four others injured.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=0166748b-62c8-45bf-8868-27e180f73938&k=81559 (http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=0166748b-62c8-45bf-8868-27e180f73938&k=81559)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/chinas-consul-general-flies-fort-mcmurray

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/chinas-consul-general-flies-fort-mcmurray


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  3 11:40:34 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, 03 May 2007 18:40:34 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] National Climate Change Plans Come Nowhere Near What We
	Need to Do
Message-ID: <20070503184037.31031.qmail@resist.ca>

"Meanwhile, Canada falls farther behind in its rail infrastructure, continues to build sprawling, car-dependent, single-family houses on local farmland, and continues to invest in the appallingly destructive Alberta Tar Sands, Harper's home turf and financial base.

Canada cannot do its part to save the lives of those millions of people who will be victims of climate change until it decarbonizes its economy. That means no more Tar Sands and no more automobile suburbs."

National Climate Change Plans Come Nowhere Near What We Need to Do  
Posted 2007/05/01 | By: Ryan McGreal

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/national-climate-change-plans-come-nowhere-near-what-we-need-do

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/national-climate-change-plans-come-nowhere-near-what-we-need-do


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  3 12:17:25 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, 03 May 2007 19:17:25 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] 'It doesn't feel the same'-- Oil Shale from the US
	Midwest
Message-ID: <20070503191726.6732.qmail@resist.ca>

The oilshale investors _should_ feel safe. The dwindling of energy reserves globally combined with the "instability" of the larger conventional oil fields left makes the price of petroleum safely unable to go down as it did in 1982 with the Saudis unleashing massive new volumes to undermine the USSR (it worked). That cannot happen today because the Saudis don't have such reserves.

So now, cutting the top off of Colorado, flipping it over and melting it down like lead is on the agenda. Good business sense is not necessarily good sense, and in this case it is suicide by petrol.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/it-doesnt-feel-same-oil-shale-us-midwest

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/it-doesnt-feel-same-oil-shale-us-midwest


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  4 11:40:30 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, 04 May 2007 18:40:30 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Colo. Grandmother tweaks energy giant
Message-ID: <20070504184031.17516.qmail@resist.ca>

Colo. woman tweaks energy giant  
Her website has prompted legal action from the Canadian company and increasing media attention.  
By Andy Vuong  
[http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_5813210][1]  
Denver Post Staff Writer  
Article Last Updated: 05/03/2007 11:00:24 PM MDT

A Lakewood woman has drawn the ire of a Canadian energy giant after creating a website that sheds an unfavorable light on the environmental impacts of the company's oil-sands production.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_5813210 (http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_5813210)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/colo-grandmother-tweaks-energy-giant

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/colo-grandmother-tweaks-energy-giant


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  4 11:40:31 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: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:40:31 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Suzuki: Too few bright ideas
Message-ID: <20070504184032.17522.qmail@resist.ca>

Too few bright ideas  
David Suzuki  
Editorial - Friday, May 04, 2007  
[http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?cont...][1]

When Environment Minister Baird announced his government's new climate change plan, I was in Toronto, getting ready to shoot some television commercials promoting energy conservation. I volunteered to do the commercials because I believe that everyone has to do his fair share in reducing the threat of global warming. Mr. Baird and Prime Minister Harper apparently disagree.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=514631&catname=Editorial&classif= (http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=514631&catname=Editorial&classif=)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/suzuki-too-few-bright-ideas

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/suzuki-too-few-bright-ideas


From news at resist.ca  Sat May  5 22:40:29 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, 06 May 2007 05:40:29 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Whitecourt bids for nuclear plant
Message-ID: <20070506054030.11181.qmail@resist.ca>

Whitecourt bids for nuclear plant  
Upstart Calgary firm prepares to file applications for $6.2-billion Candu project  
Jason Markusoff, The Edmonton Journal  
[http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=24103fc4-5cc5-4...][1]  
May 04, 2007

EDMONTON - An upstart Calgary energy firm is thrusting Alberta headlong into the nuclear debate, with plans to apply next month to build a $6.2-billion twin reactor in northern Alberta that would become the largest -- and most controversial -- power plant in the province.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=24103fc4-5cc5-4161-894c-de070a035c77&k=98326 (http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=24103fc4-5cc5-4161-894c-de070a035c77&k=98326)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/whitecourt-bids-nuclear-plant

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/whitecourt-bids-nuclear-plant


From news at resist.ca  Tue May  8 09:40:21 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, 08 May 2007 16:40:21 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] The Unexplored Geothermal Silence: Neither Nukes nor Gas?
Message-ID: <20070508164022.6610.qmail@resist.ca>

The point of this article is, unfortunately, to give advice to major corporations who are decimating nature at a nearly unparalleled rate a way to do so less horridly (like a smart bomb, the terminology is far more distracting than illuminating). Nonetheless, the developers who look at the single largest industrial project in history are salivating at ways to expand it into their own realm.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/unexplored-geothermal-silence-neither-nukes-nor-gas

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/unexplored-geothermal-silence-neither-nukes-nor-gas


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 15 10:17:11 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:17:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tories Storm out of Hearing when Confronted on Tarsands
	Energy Policy
Message-ID: <20070515171712.1706.qmail@resist.ca>

Tory MPs storm out of meeting on energy sharing; Canada left short to aid U.S., says professor  
The Edmonton Journal (A6) The Ottawa Citizen (A3) The Montreal Gazette (A12)  
Fri 11 May 2007 

OTTAWA - Amid heated charges of a coverup, Tory MPs on Thursday abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tories-storm-out-hearing-when-confronted-tarsands-energy-policy

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tories-storm-out-hearing-when-confronted-tarsands-energy-policy


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 15 10:17:11 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:17:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] EUB Exonerates Pipeline Spill near Lesser Slave Lake
Message-ID: <20070515171712.1707.qmail@resist.ca>

A press release below from the EUB-- the same people telling us that Nuclear Powerplants that take years to construct, and then more years of operation to start being a reduction in Greenhouse gas emissions, are an "environmental benefit". Their track record is no longer credible. Here below, spilling oil is not dangerous to your health. So says the EUB.

--M

EUB Completes Investigation Into Rainbow Pipeline Failure Near Slave Lake

Calgary, Alberta (May 9, 2007) The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board  
(EUB) has completed its investigation into a pipeline leak that

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/eub-exonerates-pipeline-spill-near-lesser-slave-lake

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/eub-exonerates-pipeline-spill-near-lesser-slave-lake


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 15 10:17:11 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:17:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Rigged to Blow
Message-ID: <20070515171713.1708.qmail@resist.ca>

clip:  
"The Alberta tar sands are big, but even the Canadian government does not project them paying out much more than three million barrels a day when they reach maximum production in five or ten years, and the process will probably poison all the groundwater east of the Canadian Rockies."

Rigged to Blow

Tuesday, 15 May 2007  
by James Kunstler  
[http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1579/81/][1]

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1579/81/ (http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1579/81/)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/rigged-blow

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/rigged-blow


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 15 10:40:49 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, 15 May 2007 17:40:49 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] MSNBC: Scientists Urge Protection of 50% of Canada's
	Boreal Forest
Message-ID: <20070515174051.17909.qmail@resist.ca>

To achieve the goals being set out by these scientists-- who are perhaps still acting *conservatively* in what they collectively state needs to be done to achieve a healthy biosphere-- we need to speak as plain as day:

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/msnbc-scientists-urge-protection-50-canadas-boreal-forest

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/msnbc-scientists-urge-protection-50-canadas-boreal-forest


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 15 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 20:17:09 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] National Energy Board: Six fold increase in hearings
	related to energy sector
Message-ID: <20070515201710.7230.qmail@resist.ca>

Signs of out-of-control growth...

May 1, 2007 6:37:00 PM MST  
National Energy Board says hot energy climate means six fold increase in hearings (NEB-Hearings)  
[http://www.oilweek.com/news.asp?ID=8834][1]

CALGARY (CP) _ The National Energy Board, Canada?s federal energy regulator, says its hearings days increased six-fold last year thanks to a hot energy sector.

The NEB Annual reports says the regulator spent 141 days last year hearing applications for development to Canada?s energy sector; nearly one-third devoted to the multi-billion dollar Mackenzie Gas Project.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.oilweek.com/news.asp?ID=8834 (http://www.oilweek.com/news.asp?ID=8834)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/national-energy-board-six-fold-increase-hearings-related-energy-sector

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/national-energy-board-six-fold-increase-hearings-related-energy-sector


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 15 13:40:22 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 20:40:22 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Second Storage Tank Collapses at Canadian Natural Oil
	Sands Site
Message-ID: <20070515204023.12075.qmail@resist.ca>

After the killing of two non-Canadian "guest workers" from China only weeks ago, a second part of the same structures has collapsed, only thanks to a stop work order was life loss averted. This scenario will play out over and again as the rush to work has people who have no training working on the job and learning at the same time. They want to quintuple production and are out of "domestic labour sources" already. What to do? Kill a few people who aren't even allowed to apply to stay past their temporary work.

--M

Second Storage Tank Collapses at Canadian Natural Oil Sands Site

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/second-storage-tank-collapses-canadian-natural-oil-sands-site

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/second-storage-tank-collapses-canadian-natural-oil-sands-site


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 15 13:40:23 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 20:40:23 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Want your Kids Working out of Fort McMurray?
Message-ID: <20070515204024.12091.qmail@resist.ca>

Teenagers should be working in the land of cocaine, fake pee, escorts for everyone, and live only for today in a small town with smog greater than a big city.

I'm sending my kids right now!

--M

Teens wooed by Fort McMurray employers  
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 | 12:05 PM MT  
CBC News  
[http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/05/15/teens-fortmcmurray.ht...][1]

Teenagers looking for summer work in Fort McMurray, Alta., are being wooed with fat wages, big bonuses and even housing allowances.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/05/15/teens-fortmcmurray.html (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/05/15/teens-fortmcmurray.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/want-your-kids-working-out-fort-mcmurray

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/want-your-kids-working-out-fort-mcmurray


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 15 13:40:22 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 20:40:22 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Fidel Castro on the Lie of Ethanol Production as an
	Alternative Energy Source
Message-ID: <20070515204024.12052.qmail@resist.ca>

[http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2007/ing/f140507i.html][1]  
Fidel Castro  
May 14, 2007

Mar?a Luisa Mendon?a brought to the meeting in Havana, a powerful documentary film on the subject of manual sugarcane cutting in Brazil.

As I did in my previous reflection, I have written a summary using Mar?a Luisa?s own paragraphs and phrases. It goes as follows:

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2007/ing/f140507i.html (http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2007/ing/f140507i.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/fidel-castro-lie-ethanol-production-alternative-energy-source

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/fidel-castro-lie-ethanol-production-alternative-energy-source


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 15 15:17:06 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 22:17:06 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] The Peace may become home to nuclear power plant
Message-ID: <20070515221706.16036.qmail@resist.ca>

The Peace may become home to nuclear power plant  
[http://www.prrecordgazette.com/News/305593.html][1]  
By Kristy Lesh  
Peace River//Record-Gazette Editor  
Tuesday May 08, 2007

An Alberta-based energy company is eyeing Peace River to be home to a nuclear power plant to provide clean, emission-free power for the growing oilsands.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.prrecordgazette.com/News/305593.html (http://www.prrecordgazette.com/News/305593.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/peace-may-become-home-nuclear-power-plant

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/peace-may-become-home-nuclear-power-plant


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 16 10:17:08 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: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:17:08 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Presentation on the SPP to the International Trade
	Committee [Parkland Institute]
Message-ID: <20070516171709.15626.qmail@resist.ca>

Gordon Laxer  
Political Economy Professor, and The Director  
Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta  
May 10, 2007

Introduction  
Parkland Institute is an Alberta-wide research network at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. We are supported by over 600 individual members and dozens of progressive organizations. Parkland Institute conducts research and education for the public good.

My remarks are on the energy and climate change implications of the SPP.

Why No Energy Security for Canadians?

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/presentation-spp-international-trade-committee-parkland-institute

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/presentation-spp-international-trade-committee-parkland-institute


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 16 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: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] CEP on Keystone Pipeline: "Canada gets pollution,
	US gets oil and jobs"
Message-ID: <20070516211704.4259.qmail@resist.ca>

"Canada gets pollution, US gets oil and jobs":  
Critical questions need to be answered on Keystone, energy union tells NEB

EDMONTON, AB, May 16 /CNW Telbec/ - The entire oil and gas industry is  
being restructured with the construction of the Keystone pipeline, and neither  
the National Energy Board, nor the provincial or federal governments  
understand the implications for oil and gas supply, jobs, the environment and  
more.

That statement from Canada's largest union of energy workers today as it  
joins with the Alberta Federation of Labour, the Parkland Institute and Dr.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/cep-keystone-pipeline-canada-gets-pollution-us-gets-oil-and-jobs

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/cep-keystone-pipeline-canada-gets-pollution-us-gets-oil-and-jobs


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 17 17:17:05 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: Fri, 18 May 2007 00:17:05 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Federal Money to save a dying Mackenzie Gas Project?
Message-ID: <20070518001706.26920.qmail@resist.ca>

Federal government money-- as a means to destroying the Mackenzie Valley and many of the nations who live within it-- in order to send the gas south to Alberta to (stop me if you've heard this one) destroy the livable biosphere and the people living within it. This is the "alternative" to letting what should die die, i.e., the Mackenzie Gas Project, if left to its own market based devices.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/federal-money-save-dying-mackenzie-gas-project

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/federal-money-save-dying-mackenzie-gas-project


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 17 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, 18 May 2007 00:40:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] OST Statement on Housing Rally at the Legislature:
	Edmonton, Alberta.
Message-ID: <20070518004012.31014.qmail@resist.ca>

Today, May 17, 2007 there was an emergency rally held in Edmonton in support of those who are increasingly being blown away by Alberta?s ?boom?. As housing prices continue to skyrocket while available housing plummets, workers can no longer even find places to live right at the ?Ground Zero? of the operations of the Tar sands near Fort McMurray.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/ost-statement-housing-rally-legislature-edmonton-alberta

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/ost-statement-housing-rally-legislature-edmonton-alberta


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 17 19:17:04 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, 18 May 2007 02:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Is the Impact of the Tarsands on Water Worse than on
	Climate Change?
Message-ID: <20070518021705.30850.qmail@resist.ca>

Choke point for oil sands may be water shortage  
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT  
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER  
May 11, 2007  
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070511.TARSANDS11/TPS...][1]

The amount of water available in Northern Alberta isn't sufficient to accommodate both the needs of burgeoning oil sands development and preserve the Athabasca River, contends a study issued jointly yesterday by the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070511.TARSANDS11/TPStory/National (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070511.TARSANDS11/TPStory/National)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/impact-tarsands-water-worse-climate-change

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/impact-tarsands-water-worse-climate-change


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 18 11:40:12 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: Fri, 18 May 2007 18:40:12 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Tarsand Tankers and Pipelines on BC's Coast to be
	Discussed at Victoria Forum
Message-ID: <20070518184013.6705.qmail@resist.ca>

TANKER TRAFFIC TALKED ABOUT

A public forum being held in Victoria on Tuesday, May 22 will examine the impact of oil tanker traffic in B.C. waters.  
By Thomas Winterhoff  
News staff  
[http://www.vicnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=36&cat=23&id=986802&m...][1]  
May 18 2007

May 22 public forum  
will examine tanker traffic off B.C.?s coast

With Alberta?s tar sands fueling Canada?s booming oil industry, domestic and international energy companies are looking for better and faster ways to transport raw petroleum products to world markets.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.vicnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=36&cat=23&id=986802&more= (http://www.vicnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=36&cat=23&id=986802&more=)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tarsand-tankers-and-pipelines-bcs-coast-be-discussed-victoria-forum

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tarsand-tankers-and-pipelines-bcs-coast-be-discussed-victoria-forum


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 19 14:40:15 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 21:40:15 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Government of Canada Announces: "[N]ot considering
	ownership of the Mackenzie Gas Project"
Message-ID: <20070519214016.19076.qmail@resist.ca>

Statement - Mackenzie Gas Project  
[http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/May2007/18/c3025.html][1]

OTTAWA, May 18 /CNW Telbec/ - The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of  
Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for M?tis and  
Non-Status Indians issued the following statement today regarding the  
Mackenzie Gas Project:

In response to recent media coverage on the Mackenzie Gas Project, I  
would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight on the federal  
government's position on the project.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/May2007/18/c3025.html (http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/May2007/18/c3025.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/government-canada-announces-n-ot-considering-ownership-mackenzie-gas-project

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/government-canada-announces-n-ot-considering-ownership-mackenzie-gas-project


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 19 14:40:15 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 21:40:15 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Harper and Bush "Under Fire From Environmentalists"
Message-ID: <20070519214016.19084.qmail@resist.ca>

Harper and Bush under fire from environmentalists  
Mike De Souza, CanWest News Service  
[http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=80120b49-2802-4...][1]  
Published: Saturday, May 19, 2007

OTTAWA -- Canadian and American politicians renewed attacks on their respective governments Friday over concerns the Harper and Bush administrations are cooking up a scheme to undermine international action on climate change.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=80120b49-2802-4286-9ae8-15a9538fda9b&k=10814 (http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=80120b49-2802-4286-9ae8-15a9538fda9b&k=10814)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/harper-and-bush-under-fire-environmentalists

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/harper-and-bush-under-fire-environmentalists


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 19 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Changes in the Tarpit Mining Procedure
Message-ID: <20070519221704.25683.qmail@resist.ca>

Note the source: "Oilsands Review", so take not too much comfort in their pronunciations nor forget that much isn't spoken of in the article on the "improvements" in procedure just yet. Nonetheless, it's worth reading and familiarizing ourselves with.

--M

The changing face of oilsands mining  
Mobile crushing systems on the way  
[http://www.oilsandsreview.com/articles.asp?ID=401][1]  
Diane L.M. Cook  
Jun 2007

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.oilsandsreview.com/articles.asp?ID=401 (http://www.oilsandsreview.com/articles.asp?ID=401)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/changes-tarpit-mining-procedure

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/changes-tarpit-mining-procedure


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 19 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] SPP "Could Dwarf NAFTA"
Message-ID: <20070519221705.25684.qmail@resist.ca>

The SPP, let us not over-state things, is designed to allow the fastest use of tarsands oil while moving goods and other trasport items, including 'temporary workers' across borders that are no longer free for travel minus a passport. One giant set of rules built up to achieve the maximum flow of goods, in particular energy, while restricting the same among people. 

The sovereignty of energy and capital.

--M

Wide-ranging accord with U.S., Mexico could dwarf NAFTA, MPs hear  
[http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/270407_dwarf_nafta.html][1]  
Don Butler / CanWest News | April 27, 2007

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/270407_dwarf_nafta.html (http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/270407_dwarf_nafta.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/spp-could-dwarf-nafta

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/spp-could-dwarf-nafta


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 19 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] South Dakota Hearings on Keystone Pieline to Begin
Message-ID: <20070519221705.25685.qmail@resist.ca>

PUC To Hear Oil Pipeline Proposal  
[http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=0,56895][1]  
05/09/2007

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission has scheduled four public hearings in June along the route of a proposed oil pipeline that would run through the eastern part of the state.

The TransCanada Keystone Pipeline would carry oil from a terminal at Hardisty, Alberta, to Illinois to supply US refineries. The 1,800-mile pipeline would enter the United States in North Dakota and also cross South Dakota, Nebraska, a corner of Kansas, and Missouri before reaching Illinois.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=0,56895 (http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=0,56895)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/south-dakota-hearings-keystone-pieline-begin

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/south-dakota-hearings-keystone-pieline-begin


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 19 15:40:11 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:40:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] More Firms moving into the Tarsands
Message-ID: <20070519224011.29247.qmail@resist.ca>

This article is quite notable in that it comes from Qatar, and it is basically a Middle Eastern tip of the hat to peak oil. As the world continues to search for new sources of bitumen to make [mock] oil from the tarsands, this description of the mini rush for nation-states and companies to diversify their portfolios to include tarsands oil is yet more indication less and less people in positions to know about it believe that oil prices will drop below "economical levels" for the tarsands. That is roughly $30 barrels.

--M

More firms moving into costly oil sands

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/more-firms-moving-tarsands

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/more-firms-moving-tarsands


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 26 18:17:25 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, 27 May 2007 01:17:25 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Whitecourt, used as a 'thin wedge',
	begins consultations with Nuke Proponents
Message-ID: <20070527011725.2451.qmail@resist.ca>

Whitecourt is a small town near massive (mock) oil development. It's also a town known for helping establish the "precedent" of industrial development. If the nuclear proponents get one reactor approved somewhere to feed their insatiable drive for (tar sands mock) oil, then it will grow politically available ten thousand times higher, and our job gets worse.

What shall we do?

--M

Energy Alberta talks nuclear power with Whitecourt residents

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/whitecourt-used-thin-wedge-begins-consultations-nuke-proponents

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/whitecourt-used-thin-wedge-begins-consultations-nuke-proponents


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 27 02:17:16 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: Sun, 27 May 2007 09:17:16 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Ottawa Strong Armed Akaitcho into Relinquishing Valuable
	Lands
Message-ID: <20070527091716.10524.qmail@resist.ca>

Ottawa 'strong-armed' Akaitcho in land claim: Bevington

Last Updated: Thursday, May 17, 2007 | 3:16 PM CT

CBC News

The federal government forced the Akaitcho Dene First Nations into not claiming areas where exploration companies want to look for uranium, Western Arctic NDP MP Dennis Bevington alleged Thursday.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/ottawa-strong-armed-akaitcho-relinquishing-valuable-lands

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/ottawa-strong-armed-akaitcho-relinquishing-valuable-lands


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 27 02:17:16 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: Sun, 27 May 2007 09:17:16 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] "Orinoco Seizure by Hugo Chavez Threatens Global Oil
	Stability"
Message-ID: <20070527091716.10525.qmail@resist.ca>

It should come as no surprise that this move is "welcomed" in such reactionary fashion; radicals act, reactionary anti-movements react. Here is just such an ideological reaction below.

Orinoco Seizure by Hugo Chavez Threatens Global Oil Stability  
Martin Hutchinson on May 18th, 2007  
[http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/orinoco/2007/05/18/][1]

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/orinoco/2007/05/18/ (http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/orinoco/2007/05/18/)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/orinoco-seizure-hugo-chavez-threatens-global-oil-stability

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/orinoco-seizure-hugo-chavez-threatens-global-oil-stability


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 27 03:17:09 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: Sun, 27 May 2007 10:17:09 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Backlash against a whistle-blower
Message-ID: <20070527101710.2361.qmail@resist.ca>

GLOBE & MAIL, MAY 19th by Andrew Nikiforuk 

THE ENVIRONMENT: HEALTH AND SAFETY  
Backlash against a whistle-blower  
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070519.DOCTOR19/TPSto...][1] nvironment 

For years, Dr. John O'Connor has made headlines by continually asking why natives near the oil sands have so much cancer.  
But that's not the only reason he's in such hot water now. Andrew Nikiforuk reports ANDREW NIKIFORUK May 19, 2007.  
The Globe and Mail.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070519.DOCTOR19/TPStory/E (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070519.DOCTOR19/TPStory/E)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/backlash-against-whistle-blower

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/backlash-against-whistle-blower


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 27 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: Sun, 27 May 2007 20:17:04 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Why Whitecourt or Peace River for Nukes? It's the In
	Situ, stupid!
Message-ID: <20070527201705.14424.qmail@resist.ca>

Shell eyes nuclear power in oil sands  
New technology that extracts bitumen from limestone demands huge quantities of electricity  
DAVID EBNER  
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070521.wxrnuclear22...][1]  
Globe and Mail  
May 21, 2007

Calgary ? ? Royal Dutch Shell PLC [RDS.B-N]is looking at nuclear power to support its experimental oil sands ambitions, on which it has already placed a bet of more than half a billion dollars.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070521.wxrnuclear22/BNStory/Front/home (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070521.wxrnuclear22/BNStory/Front/home)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/why-whitecourt-or-peace-river-nukes-its-situ-stupid

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/why-whitecourt-or-peace-river-nukes-its-situ-stupid


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 27 16:17:07 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, 27 May 2007 23:17:07 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Move over Fort Mac, a new boomtown is born
Message-ID: <20070527231707.27793.qmail@resist.ca>

Move over Fort Mac, a new boomtown is born  
On the surface Grande Prairie looks unremarkable, but its riches of oil and gas have brought roaring growth  
DAVID EBNER  
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070521.RGRANDEPRAIRIE...][1]  
May 21, 2007

GRANDE PRAIRIE, ALTA. -- On the surface, Grande Prairie, with a population nearing 50,000, looks unremarkable. Most buildings are a couple of storeys high, and the only striking feature of the richest neighbourhood in town - called Wedgewood - is the number of three-vehicle garages.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070521.RGRANDEPRAIRIE21/TPStory/Business (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070521.RGRANDEPRAIRIE21/TPStory/Business)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/move-over-fort-mac-new-boomtown-born

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/move-over-fort-mac-new-boomtown-born


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 27 16:40:11 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: Sun, 27 May 2007 23:40:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] American Immigration Reform: Born in Canada
Message-ID: <20070527234012.14031.qmail@resist.ca>

Sun, May 27, 2007  
U.S. scores points with new immigration bill  
[http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2007/05/27/4211962-sun.html][1]  
By DONNA MARIE ARTUSO

WASHINGTON -- A colossal immigration bill, backed by a bipartisan coalition, is lurching its way through the U.S. Senate -- amendment by cumbersome amendment -- in an attempt to comprehensively reform a system that has been in place for more than 40 years.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2007/05/27/4211962-sun.html (http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2007/05/27/4211962-sun.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/american-immigration-reform-born-canada

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/american-immigration-reform-born-canada


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 27 16:40:11 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: Sun, 27 May 2007 23:40:11 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Canadians need to "reel in" Big Oil: The Need for Law
	Reform
Message-ID: <20070527234012.14034.qmail@resist.ca>

Canadians need to "reel in" Big Oil: The Need for Law Reform  
[http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20070526122247132][1]  
by PatriotPete/bcpolitics.ca Peter Dimitrov, May 26, 2007

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20070526122247132 (http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20070526122247132)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/canadians-need-reel-big-oil-need-law-reform

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/canadians-need-reel-big-oil-need-law-reform


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 27 17:17:05 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, 28 May 2007 00:17:05 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Press Release: Oil Prices Rise,
	Tar Sands Making Massive Growth
Message-ID: <20070528001705.19901.qmail@resist.ca>

Oil Sands Gaining Ground With Rising Costs Of Crude Oil  
5/21/2007  
[http://www.oilandgasonline.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B3902492...][1]

Palo Alto, CA - As prices and global demand for crude oil continue to increase, the North American oil sands market is poised for remarkable growth. Recent technological developments have considerably reduced the extraction and upgrading costs of bitumen. This, along with high crude oil prices, has made oil sands an attractive proposition for oil companies.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.oilandgasonline.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B3902492D-9899-4CDB-89AB-1F8457B4FA33%7D&Bucket=Current+Headlines&VNETCOOKIE=NO (http://www.oilandgasonline.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B3902492D-9899-4CDB-89AB-1F8457B4FA33%7D&Bucket=Current+Headlines&VNETCOOKIE=NO)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/press-release-oil-prices-rise-tar-sands-making-massive-growth

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/press-release-oil-prices-rise-tar-sands-making-massive-growth


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 27 18:17:07 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: Mon, 28 May 2007 01:17:07 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] The Ecology of Work
Message-ID: <20070528011707.29972.qmail@resist.ca>

Environmentalism can't succeed until it confronts the destructive nature of  
modern work - and supplants it. (Last of a two-part series)  
by Curtis White  
Orion magazine (May / June 2007)

Environmentalists see the asphalting of the country as a sin against the world  
of nature, but we should also see in it a kind of damage that has been done to  
humans, for what precedes environmental degradation is the debasement of the  
human world. I would go so far as to say that there is no solution for  
environmental destruction that isn't first a healing of the damage that has been

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/ecology-work

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/ecology-work


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 28 11:17:05 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, 28 May 2007 18:17:05 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Too Good to Be True
Message-ID: <20070528181705.20738.qmail@resist.ca>

Too Good to Be True  
Certain organizations--Pew is one--are routinely treated as benign and neutral, beyond partisan politics. They're not.  
[http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006499][1]  
BY MARTIN MORSE WOOSTER  
Friday, April 1, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006499 (http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006499)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/too-good-be-true

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/too-good-be-true


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 28 14:17:08 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: Mon, 28 May 2007 21:17:08 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Enbridge pipeline project facing complaints (Wisconsin)
Message-ID: <20070528211708.9431.qmail@resist.ca>

Enbridge pipeline project facing complaints (Wisconsin)  
[http://www.wiscnews.com/pdr/news/133887][1]  
The Associated Press

WAUSAU ? The pay for trees being cut is unfair. Some trees shouldn't be chopped down ? like 100-year-old oaks. There are threats. Even human waste was left behind from earlier work.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.wiscnews.com/pdr/news/133887 (http://www.wiscnews.com/pdr/news/133887)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/enbridge-pipeline-project-facing-complaints-wisconsin

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/enbridge-pipeline-project-facing-complaints-wisconsin


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 29 14:17:16 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, 29 May 2007 21:17:16 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Secret South Dakota Project Makes National Headlines
Message-ID: <20070529211717.5950.qmail@resist.ca>

Secret South Dakota Project Makes National Headlines  
May 25, 2007  
[http://www.ktiv.com/News/index.php?ID=13386][1]

It's been the talk of South Dakota. What's the big... "super secret" project in the works for Union County? That question is now in the national spotlight... after making the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

Check out this headline in Friday's Wall Street Journal. It reads... "In South Dakota, Farming Community Tracks a Gorilla."

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.ktiv.com/News/index.php?ID=13386 (http://www.ktiv.com/News/index.php?ID=13386)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/secret-south-dakota-project-makes-national-headlines

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/secret-south-dakota-project-makes-national-headlines


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 30 15:17:06 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: Wed, 30 May 2007 22:17:06 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Harper embraces the nuclear future
Message-ID: <20070530221706.4414.qmail@resist.ca>

CANOE -- CNEWS: Macleans - Harper embraces the nuclear future Page 1  
[http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Rogers/Macleans/2007/05/03/pf-4150972.html][1]  
May 3, 2007

Harper embraces the nuclear future  
Climate-change anxiety breathes new life into nuclear power,  
and shifts Ottawa's plans

By JOHN GEDDES -- Maclean's

Stephen Harper would seem an unlikely pitchman for nuclear  
power. When the Prime Minister launches into his familiar spiel  
about Canada as an emerging "energy superpower," we all think  
we know what he's talking about - he's an Alberta MP, after all, and

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Rogers/Macleans/2007/05/03/pf-4150972.html (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Rogers/Macleans/2007/05/03/pf-4150972.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/harper-embraces-nuclear-future

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/harper-embraces-nuclear-future


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 31 14:40:19 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: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:40:19 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Mackenie Gas Project: Now more than ever: "It's not
	economical"-- So Let's Kill it.
Message-ID: <20070531214019.21606.qmail@resist.ca>

Now more than ever: Don't negotiate the pipeline, stop it. We have the best political environment, using their financial environment, to help protect the Deh Cho Valley environment from being used to kill the Athabascan environment. in other words, not since Thomas Berger was in the Valley has their been such coherent, palpable opposition to the construction of the MGP. People in the north know that climate change is real; their neighbours houses are washing into the Arctic Ocean and birds such as robins and barn owls that have never been in the north before are flying about these days.

[read more][1]

    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/mackenie-gas-project-now-more-ever-its-not-economical-so-lets-kill-it

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/mackenie-gas-project-now-more-ever-its-not-economical-so-lets-kill-it


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 31 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: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:17:07 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] The Shocking Price of Using Up Fossil Fuels
Message-ID: <20070531221707.30858.qmail@resist.ca>

The shocking price of using up fossil fuels  
Emissions would stay in the atmosphere for more than 5,000 years, scientist says  
Margaret Munro, CanWest News Service  
[http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=e605ed94-9c7f-42fa...][1]  
Published: Thursday, May 31, 2007

Burning all known reserves of fossil fuels, from Alberta's tarsands to China's vast stores of coal, would have much graver long-term consequences than previously thought, according to climate scientists.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=e605ed94-9c7f-42fa-85cf-5b689abc39ce (http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=e605ed94-9c7f-42fa-85cf-5b689abc39ce)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/shocking-price-using-fossil-fuels

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/shocking-price-using-fossil-fuels


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 31 15:40:26 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: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:40:26 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Alberta finance minister feeling nervous about energy
	royalty review
Message-ID: <20070531224027.2845.qmail@resist.ca>

Alberta finance minister feeling nervous about energy royalty review  
Published: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | 9:31 PM ET  
Canadian Press: JIM MACDONALD  
[http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/070530/b0530128A.html][1]

EDMONTON (CP) - With many Albertans feeling left in the dust by the current energy boom, Finance Minister Lyle Oberg says he's nervous about an ongoing review of billions of dollars in annual resource royalties.

Oberg concedes it's the kind of issue a government can get beaten over the head with, especially if voters don't have confidence in the way the review is handled.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/070530/b0530128A.html (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/070530/b0530128A.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-finance-minister-feeling-nervous-about-energy-royalty-review

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-finance-minister-feeling-nervous-about-energy-royalty-review


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 31 15:40:27 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: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:40:27 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Nuclear Power Alternative in Alberta Raising Questions
	of Appropriateness
Message-ID: <20070531224028.2849.qmail@resist.ca>

Nuclear Power Alternative in Alberta Raising Questions of Appropriateness  
[http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=32318][1]  
By Dina O'Meara  
27 May 2007 at 09:02 PM GMT-04:00

CALGARY (CP) -- Nuclear power might be all the rage for some interested parties in Alberta's oil patch, but others question the need for such controversial power generation in an industry that requires more steam than electricity.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=32318 (http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=32318)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/nuclear-power-alternative-alberta-raising-questions-appropriateness

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/nuclear-power-alternative-alberta-raising-questions-appropriateness


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 31 15:40:27 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: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:40:27 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Opinions differ on safety of possible nuclear plant
Message-ID: <20070531224028.2850.qmail@resist.ca>

Opinions differ on safety of possible nuclear plant  
Last Updated: Monday, May 28, 2007 | 11:42 AM MT  
CBC News  
[http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/05/28/alberta-nuclear.html][1]

A sustainable energy advocate is warning about the possible safety drawbacks of building a nuclear power plant in Alberta, but an engineering expert said the risks are small.

"There are all sorts of different ways in which material can leave the plant under both normal operating conditions, accident conditions or the possibility of a security incident," said Mark Winfield of the Pembina Institute.

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/05/28/alberta-nuclear.html (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/05/28/alberta-nuclear.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/opinions-differ-safety-possible-nuclear-plant

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/opinions-differ-safety-possible-nuclear-plant


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 31 16:17:05 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, 31 May 2007 23:17:05 -0000
Subject: [Ost-news] Baghdad Burns, Calgary Booms
Message-ID: <20070531231705.10993.qmail@resist.ca>

Baghdad Burns, Calgary Booms  
By Naomi Klein // The Nation  
[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070618/klein][1]

The invasion of Iraq has set off what could be the largest oil boom in  
history. All the signs are there: multinationals free to gobble up  
national firms at will, ship unlimited profits home, enjoy leisurely  
"tax holidays" and pay a laughable 1 percent in royalties to the  
government.

This isn't the boom in Iraq sparked by the proposed new oil law--that  
will come later. This boom is already in full swing, and it is

[read more][2]

    [1]: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070618/klein (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070618/klein)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/baghdad-burns-calgary-booms

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/baghdad-burns-calgary-booms