From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 2 12:17:04 2008 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, 02 Apr 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Imperial Oil Loses Tar-Sands Water Permit (Kearl Project), Globe and Mail Says Message-ID: <20080402191704.12116.qmail@resist.ca> Imperial Oil Loses Oil-Sands Water Permit, Globe and Mail Says By Sean B. Pasternak March 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Canadian government revoked a water permit that is key to Imperial Oil Ltd.'s C$8 billion ($7.8 billion) Kearl oil-sands project, the Globe and Mail reported. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/imperial-oil-loses-tarsands-water-permit-kearl-project-globe-and-mail-says URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/imperial-oil-loses-tarsands-water-permit-kearl-project-globe-and-mail-says From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 2 12:17:04 2008 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, 02 Apr 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Alberta hit with 800 complaints from foreign workers Message-ID: <20080402191704.12123.qmail@resist.ca> Alberta hit with 800 complaints from foreign workers Accommodation, unfair wage deductions cited Kelly Cryderman, Calgary Herald Published: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 Just a day before a House of Commons committee meets in Edmonton to discuss the issue of temporary foreign workers, the province revealed it has received more than 800 complaints from foreign labourers in the past 31/2 months. The most common complaints revolve around perceived unfair wage deductions, fees charged by recruitment agencies and accommodation issues. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-hit-800-complaints-foreign-workers URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-hit-800-complaints-foreign-workers From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 2 12:17:04 2008 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, 02 Apr 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Don't let tar sand oil slip away"-- American PR for the tar sands industry Message-ID: <20080402191704.12117.qmail@resist.ca> The war about what to do about the tar sands oil is well under way, and the article below is the kind of propaganda we should get used to about how much the US needs the tar sands product. In the case of the Michigan area, it should be noted that the expanding refinery capacity would include dumping into the Great Lakes. All of it increases the destruction in Northern Alberta. So these arguments are purely based (below) on a "so lifestyle and consumption patterns don't change" line of thinking. --M Don't let tar sand oil slip away BY MARK J. PERRY ? March 31, 2008 [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotdon039t-let-tar-sand-oil-slip-awayquot-american-pr-tar-sands-industry URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotdon039t-let-tar-sand-oil-slip-awayquot-american-pr-tar-sands-industry From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 2 12:17:04 2008 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, 02 Apr 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Tar Pits Tailings Mined for Minerals Message-ID: <20080402191704.12118.qmail@resist.ca> Oilsands tailings mined for minerals By CAROL CHRISTIAN Today staff Tuesday April 01, 2008 Mineral rich waste from oilsands mining may soon be the source used to produce a long list of manufactured products from ceramic tiles and paints to electronics and medical appliances. This could all come about thanks to a pilot project initiated by Titanium Corporation, and funded, in part, through Alberta Energy?s Innovation Fund. The Alberta grant is valued at $3.5 million, an amount being matched by the Toronto-based company. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-pits-tailings-mined-minerals URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-pits-tailings-mined-minerals From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 2 12:17:04 2008 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, 02 Apr 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Groups slam foreign worker program Message-ID: <20080402191705.12120.qmail@resist.ca> Groups slam foreign worker program By BROOKES MERRITT, SUN MEDIA Alberta's temporary foreign worker program has no oversight and is mired in so much bureaucracy that employers are allowed to treat hopeful immigrants like indentured labour. That's what a federal committee travelling Canada to examine immigration issues heard in Edmonton yesterday, during a lengthy meeting in which several interest groups blasted the provincial and federal governments. 'INHERENTLY EXPLOITIVE' [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/groups-slam-foreign-worker-program URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/groups-slam-foreign-worker-program From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 2 12:17:04 2008 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, 02 Apr 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Al-Jazeera: Alberta's heavy oil burden Message-ID: <20080402191705.12119.qmail@resist.ca> Alberta's heavy oil burden Alberta's oil reserves are seen as a long-term supply option for the United States Al Jazeera's People & Power programme recently visited the Candian province of Alberta where the region's vast oil reserves are provoking both prosperity and opposition. Much of the terrain is blanketed in trees but underneath the forests of the remote north of the Canadian province of Alberta are an estimated 174 billion barrels of heavy crude oil. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/aljazeera-alberta039s-heavy-oil-burden URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/aljazeera-alberta039s-heavy-oil-burden From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 3 16:17:19 2008 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 Apr 2008 23:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Don't let our country sink into this stuff Message-ID: <20080403231720.5543.qmail@resist.ca> Don't let our country sink into this stuff By WAYNE MADSEN Special to McClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON -- Anything that allows America to continue its narcotic-like dependence on carbon fossil fuels -- whether the sprawling tar sands of Canada or the petroleum pools under Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- misses the point about shifting to alternative energy. Alternative sources should be real energy alternatives such as wind, solar and geothermal power rather than alternative fossil fuel sources that often give off more greenhouse gases than conventional crude oil. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/don039t-let-our-country-sink-stuff URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/don039t-let-our-country-sink-stuff From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 3 16:17:19 2008 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 Apr 2008 23:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Stelmach named =?utf-8?b?4oCYQ2FuYWRpYW4=?= Fossil Fool of the =?utf-8?b?WWVhcuKAmQ==?= by environmental groups Message-ID: <20080403231720.5545.qmail@resist.ca> Stelmach named ?Canadian Fossil Fool of the Year? by environmental groups Award SCOTT HARRIS / [scott at vueweekly.com][1] Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has been crowned ?Canadian Fossil Fool of the Year? by a coalition of youth environmental organizations. Stelmach was given the award, also dubbed a ?Foolie,? for promoting increased production in Alberta?s tar sands and in recognition of the provincial government?s recent climate change plan, which focusses on intensity-based targets rather than absolute reductions in emissions. [read more][2] [1]: mailto:scott at vueweekly.com [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/stelmach-named-%E2%80%98canadian-fossil-fool-year%E2%80%99-environmental-groups URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/stelmach-named-%E2%80%98canadian-fossil-fool-year%E2%80%99-environmental-groups From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 3 16:17:20 2008 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 Apr 2008 23:17:20 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Tar Sands Exploration in Saskatchewan: The Environmental Impacts Message-ID: <20080403231721.5548.qmail@resist.ca> Tar Sands Exploration in Saskatchewan: The Environmental Impacts Global Research, March 31, 2008 Saskatchewan Environmental Society ENVIRONMENTALISTS CALL FOR FREEZE ON OIL SANDS EXPLORATION PERMITS [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-exploration-saskatchewan-environmental-impacts URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-exploration-saskatchewan-environmental-impacts From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 3 16:17:21 2008 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 Apr 2008 23:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Alaska Highway Pipeline path to Canada assailed Message-ID: <20080403231722.5566.qmail@resist.ca> As one can see by both crunching the numbers on energy input needs for tar sands expansion proposals or by glancing at the 2030 proposed pipelines map on the sidebar of this site, this gas is not destinted, for the large component, for Chicago. It would be destined for the Albertan energy grid to turn tar sands deposits into "oil". --M Pipeline path to Canada assailed ALASKA GAS: Critics of TransCanada's plan cite profit, exclusivity. By WESLEY LOY [wloy at adn.com][1] Published: March 25th, 2008 12:03 AM [read more][2] [1]: mailto:wloy at adn.com [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/alaska-highway-pipeline-path-canada-assailed URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/alaska-highway-pipeline-path-canada-assailed From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 3 16:17:20 2008 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 Apr 2008 23:17:20 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Contamination threatens the North Coast way of life Message-ID: <20080403231721.5550.qmail@resist.ca> Contamination threatens the North Coast way of life Iain Hunter, Special to Times Colonist Published: Saturday, March 29, 2008 I'm told that when other people in British Columbia turn off a few lights at 8 p.m. today to observe Earth Hour, the folks in Hartley Bay are making a bit more of a sacrifice by shutting down the town's only generator. It's said to be a dry run for the day when they can close the thing down for good and switch to greener and safer hydro generation, for they've been reminded what could lie ahead. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/contamination-threatens-north-coast-way-life URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/contamination-threatens-north-coast-way-life From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 3 16:17:20 2008 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 Apr 2008 23:17:20 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Outgoing CEO of Imperial Oil wants to Fast Track MGP, Greenwash Tar Sands Message-ID: <20080403231722.5551.qmail@resist.ca> Imperial CEO says oilsands needs to burnish its image Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post Published: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 When Tim Hearn started working at Imperial Oil Ltd. 41 years ago, oil was worth US$1.80 a barrel and natural gas 16? per thousand cubic feet. With oil prices nearing US$110 and gas prices US$10,Mr. Hearn, 64, is retiring on March 31 as CEO and chairman of Imperial, leaving behind a company with no debt and pushing forward some of Canada's largest oil and gas projects. Mr. Hearn will be replaced by Bruce March, 51, an Exxon Mobil Corp. refining executive. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/outgoing-ceo-imperial-oil-wants-fast-track-mgp-greenwash-tar-sands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/outgoing-ceo-imperial-oil-wants-fast-track-mgp-greenwash-tar-sands From news at resist.ca Sat Apr 5 16:17:05 2008 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, 05 Apr 2008 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Taking a bet on tar sands (from Malaysia) Message-ID: <20080405231706.2545.qmail@resist.ca> Taking a bet on oil sands WITH crude oil hitting a record price of US$108 per barrel recently, the search for oil and gas has been more intense than ever due to its high profit margin. In recent years, investing in the extraction of oil from sand or oil sands is gaining popularity because of the strong demand and high prices of oil. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/taking-bet-tar-sands-malaysia URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/taking-bet-tar-sands-malaysia From news at resist.ca Sat Apr 5 16:17:05 2008 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, 05 Apr 2008 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] UTS Energy, Teck Cominco plan new tar sands mine Message-ID: <20080405231706.2543.qmail@resist.ca> With each new project, the practical viability of a mere moratorium on tar sands production becomes ever more clear. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/uts-energy-teck-cominco-plan-new-tar-sands-mine URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/uts-energy-teck-cominco-plan-new-tar-sands-mine From news at resist.ca Sat Apr 5 16:17:05 2008 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, 05 Apr 2008 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Peak Oil May Worsen the Climate Crisis Message-ID: <20080405231706.2546.qmail@resist.ca> Peak Oil May Worsen the Climate Crisis April 02, 2008 10:45 AM ET | Marianne Lavelle It's hard to know whether we should be more worried that consuming oil is killing the planet or that there's way too little of this killer oil left. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-may-worsen-climate-crisis URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-may-worsen-climate-crisis From news at resist.ca Sat Apr 5 16:17:06 2008 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, 05 Apr 2008 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Utah: Oil-shale 'rush' is sparking concern Message-ID: <20080405231707.2547.qmail@resist.ca> Oil-shale 'rush' is sparking concern By Stephen Speckman Deseret Morning News Published: Saturday, March 22, 2008 With oil prices surpassing $100 per barrel, talk of extracting the black gold wherever it can be found in Utah and elsewhere is raising red flags for environmental groups. The most recent complaint came this week from 26 conservation groups that accuse the Bush administration of rushing to develop oil shale and tar sands and endangering communities and 2 million acres of wild lands in three states, including Utah. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/utah-oilshale-039rush039-sparking-concern URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/utah-oilshale-039rush039-sparking-concern From news at resist.ca Sat Apr 5 16:17:06 2008 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, 05 Apr 2008 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Foreign workers exploited by temporary job plan: critics Message-ID: <20080405231707.2549.qmail@resist.ca> Clip from the article below: He said Alberta, because of its ongoing labour woes, has become "ground zero" for the Temporary Foreign Worker program, which has expanded into "a huge social and economic experiment that's in the process of going horribly wrong." ** [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/foreign-workers-exploited-temporary-job-plan-critics URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/foreign-workers-exploited-temporary-job-plan-critics From news at resist.ca Sat Apr 5 16:17:06 2008 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, 05 Apr 2008 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Five years of war in Iraq have hit home in Edmonton Message-ID: <20080405231707.2554.qmail@resist.ca> Iraq War Five years of war in Iraq have hit home in Edmonton DAVID BERRY / [david at vueweekly.com][1] The further we get away from the actual date, the better Canada?s decision to not get involved with the US invasion of Iraq looks. Five years after the US launched its ill-conceived assault on the Middle Eastern nation, there aren?t many?except perhaps those in the highest offices of the American government?who consider the situation anything but a quagmire. [read more][2] [1]: mailto:david at vueweekly.com [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/five-years-war-iraq-have-hit-home-edmonton URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/five-years-war-iraq-have-hit-home-edmonton From news at resist.ca Sat Apr 5 17:17:05 2008 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 Apr 2008 00:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Saskatchewan Tar Sands Opponents Emerge Message-ID: <20080406001706.27418.qmail@resist.ca> Oilsands opponents emerge Group seeks exploration permit freeze; Environmental assessment needed during exploration phase, society says Cassandra Kyle, The StarPhoenix Published: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 A Saskatchewan environmental group has asked the provincial government to freeze oilsands exploration permits until a regional environmental assessment is completed in northwest Saskatchewan. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/saskatchewan-tar-sands-opponents-emerge URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/saskatchewan-tar-sands-opponents-emerge From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 8 15:17:06 2008 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 Apr 2008 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Whale risks rise in Robson Bight Message-ID: <20080408221706.30464.qmail@resist.ca> Whale risks rise in Robson Bight Times Colonist Monday, April 07, 2008 Governments' poor performance in dealing with a truck full of diesel fuel on the bottom of Robson Bight raises concerns about proposals for more tanker traffic and offshore oil and gas development. The federal and provincial governments have expressed support for both, although the Harper government has not lifted the offshore drilling moratorium in place since the early 1970s. Both governments promise tough environmental controls as part of any change. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/whale-risks-rise-robson-bight URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/whale-risks-rise-robson-bight From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 8 15:17:06 2008 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 Apr 2008 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Oil peak theorist warns of chaos, war Message-ID: <20080408221706.30465.qmail@resist.ca> Oil peak theorist warns of chaos, war SHAWN McCARTHY >From Tuesday's Globe and Mail WASHINGTON ? Matt Simmons sounds the alarm like the Cassandra of the oil industry, warning that crude production has peaked and that looming energy shortages could derail global growth and even spark armed conflict. As a prominent ?peak oil? theorist, the veteran oil industry financier paints a grim picture of a world facing resource scarcity. Still, it doesn't take a ?peak-ist? to conclude that the global oil producers [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-peak-theorist-warns-chaos-war URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-peak-theorist-warns-chaos-war From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 8 15:17:06 2008 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 Apr 2008 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Climate change =?utf-8?b?4oCYc2VyaW91c2x5dW5kZXJlc3RpbWF0ZWTigJk=?= by UN Message-ID: <20080408221707.30470.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver Sun April 3, 2008 Climate change ?seriously underestimated? by UN Curbing emissions more daunting than panel reported: study Margaret Munro The United Nations' celebrated climate change panel has "seriously underestimated" the challenge of curbing global CO2 emissions, say Canadian and U.S. researchers. Radical "decarbonization" of the global energy system is needed to stabilize emissions -- a task that is much more daunting than the panel has led the world to believe, the researchers report in journal Nature today. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/climate-change-%E2%80%98seriously-underestimated%E2%80%99-un URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/climate-change-%E2%80%98seriously-underestimated%E2%80%99-un From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 8 15:17:06 2008 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 Apr 2008 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The Peak Oil Crisis: Load shedding Message-ID: <20080408221707.30467.qmail@resist.ca> The Peak Oil Crisis: Load shedding by Tom Whipple Fall Church News-Press (March 27 2008) Largely unnoticed in America are the increasingly frequent electricity shortages developing around the world. Many of these are caused by shifting weather patterns that are leaving hydro-electric dams with insufficient water to produce at full capacity. While some aspects of global climate change are temporary, many, such as the melting of glaciers, seem destined to last for decades, or perhaps centuries, thereby depriving the world of some of the best sources of [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-crisis-load-shedding URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-crisis-load-shedding From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 8 15:17:06 2008 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 Apr 2008 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Lubicon fight proposed TransCanada pipeline Message-ID: <20080408221706.30466.qmail@resist.ca> Lubicon fight proposed TransCanada pipeline ? Indian Country Today April 04, 2008. All Rights Reserved April 04, 2008 by: Kate Harries TORONTO - The Lubicon Lake Indian Nation in northern Alberta is gearing up to fight a proposed jumbo pipeline that would carry natural gas from the Mackenzie Valley in the west to the oil sands developments to the east. The $983 million proposal follows a history of industrial development across the unceded Lubicon territory that has left the 500-member Cree nation impoverished, poisoned and disregarded by Canada and Alberta - [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/lubicon-fight-proposed-transcanada-pipeline URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/lubicon-fight-proposed-transcanada-pipeline From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 8 16:17:06 2008 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 Apr 2008 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The coming food catastrophe Message-ID: <20080408231706.7855.qmail@resist.ca> Georgia Straight April 3, 2008 The coming food catastrophe By Gwynne Dyer This is the new face of hunger, said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UNs World Food Programme, launching an appeal for an extra $500 million so it could continue supplying food aid to 73 million hungry people this year. People are simply being priced out of food marketsWe have never before had a situation where aggressive rises in food prices keep pricing our operations out of our reach. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/coming-food-catastrophe URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/coming-food-catastrophe From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 8 16:17:06 2008 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 Apr 2008 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] MSNBC: Canada is in the middle of a quiet oil boom Message-ID: <20080408231706.7856.qmail@resist.ca> Canada is in the middle of a quiet oil boom Tar sands, long too expensive to process, help make it major U.S. source By Peter Klein CNBC updated 2:29 p.m. MT, Mon., April. 7, 2008 Ft. McMurray, Alberta - With oil prices hovering near a hundred dollars a barrel, there?s a major oil boom underway. It?s not happening in the sweltering heat of Texas or the dry desert of Saudi Arabia, but on the frozen Canadian tundra where oil producers are developing a new source of fossil fuel. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/msnbc-canada-middle-quiet-oil-boom URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/msnbc-canada-middle-quiet-oil-boom From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 8 16:17:06 2008 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 Apr 2008 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] BP, ConocoPhillips team up on North Slope gas pipeline (Alaska Highway Pipeline) Message-ID: <20080408231706.7858.qmail@resist.ca> BP, ConocoPhillips team up on North Slope gas pipeline Last Updated: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 | 3:56 PM CT The Canadian Press Two of the world's largest oil companies announced plans Tuesday to jointly develop a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline to move North Slope natural gas to U.S. markets through Canada. Britain's BP PLC and ConocoPhillips, based in Houston, said they plan to spend $600 million US in the first phase of the project over the next three years. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/bp-conocophillips-team-north-slope-gas-pipeline-alaska-highway-pipeline URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/bp-conocophillips-team-north-slope-gas-pipeline-alaska-highway-pipeline From news at resist.ca Sun Apr 13 16:17:19 2008 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, 13 Apr 2008 23:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Tribes, landowners in the Dakotas face down giant pipeline Message-ID: <20080413231719.29667.qmail@resist.ca> Tribes, landowners in the Dakotas face down giant pipeline Posted: April 11, 2008 by: Stephanie Woodard State Department hands out tobacco, stirs anxiety STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Unease appears to be growing in North and South Dakota over imminent construction of the 2,000-mile Keystone Pipeline, which would transport oil from northern Canada across seven U.S. states from North Dakota to Oklahoma. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tribes-landowners-dakotas-face-down-giant-pipeline URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tribes-landowners-dakotas-face-down-giant-pipeline From news at resist.ca Sun Apr 13 21:17:04 2008 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, 14 Apr 2008 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Alberta Tar Sands affect the environment Message-ID: <20080414041705.25884.qmail@resist.ca> Alberta Oil Sands affect the environment COLBY STREAM News Writer "Problems don't stop at the border," Co-Director of Boise State Canadian Studies Lori Hausegger said. "They go across the border, so that's an issue everyone has to think about." Canada week, which takes place the first week of April every year, addresses some of these problems. "Canada week helps, I think, to educate folks and Boise State ? about Canada. People don't know a whole lot about the country," Co-Director of Boise State Canadian Studies Ross Burkhart said. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-tar-sands-affect-environment URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/alberta-tar-sands-affect-environment From news at resist.ca Sun Apr 13 21:17:04 2008 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, 14 Apr 2008 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Suncor Energy reports tar sands production numbers for March 2008 Message-ID: <20080414041704.25883.qmail@resist.ca> Suncor Energy reports oil sands production numbers for March 2008 CALGARY, April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Suncor Energy Inc. reported today that production at its oil sands facility during March averaged approximately 248,000 barrels per day (bpd). Year-to-date oil sands production at the end of March averaged approximately 247,000 bpd. Suncor is targeting average oil sands production of 275,000 to 300,000 bpd in 2008. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/suncor-energy-reports-tar-sands-production-numbers-march-2008 URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/suncor-energy-reports-tar-sands-production-numbers-march-2008 From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 16 11:17:32 2008 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 Apr 2008 18:17:32 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Enbridge gets approval to expand oil pipeline Message-ID: <20080416181732.2645.qmail@resist.ca> Enbridge gets approval to expand oil pipeline Apr 16, 2008 04:30 AM Enbridge Inc., Canada's largest pipeline company, has received regulatory approval to expand an existing oil pipeline in Alberta to reduce the chance of a bottleneck as tar-sands output rises. The expansion's capacity will be 880,000 barrels a day, Canada's National Energy Board said yesterday in a written decision on the agency's website. Attached to the approval were 15 conditions, including a requirement to file an environmental protection plan before starting work. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/enbridge-gets-approval-expand-oil-pipeline URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/enbridge-gets-approval-expand-oil-pipeline From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 16 11:17:32 2008 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 Apr 2008 18:17:32 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Enbridge gets approval to expand oil pipeline Message-ID: <20080416181733.2646.qmail@resist.ca> Enbridge gets approval to expand oil pipeline Apr 16, 2008 04:30 AM Enbridge Inc., Canada's largest pipeline company, has received regulatory approval to expand an existing oil pipeline in Alberta to reduce the chance of a bottleneck as tar-sands output rises. The expansion's capacity will be 880,000 barrels a day, Canada's National Energy Board said yesterday in a written decision on the agency's website. Attached to the approval were 15 conditions, including a requirement to file an environmental protection plan before starting work. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/enbridge-gets-approval-expand-oil-pipeline-0 URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/enbridge-gets-approval-expand-oil-pipeline-0 From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 16 11:17:32 2008 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 Apr 2008 18:17:32 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Oil prices hit 114 dollars a barrel Message-ID: <20080416181733.2647.qmail@resist.ca> Oil prices hit 114 dollars a barrel 5 hours ago Crude oil prices rose to a new record above 114 US dollars a barrel as investors opted for commodities over a weaker dollar. Light, sweet crude for May delivery reached 114.53 dollars in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange before falling back slightly. The latest spike followed on from Tuesday's record-breaking run above the 113-dollar mark. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-prices-hit-114-dollars-barrel URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-prices-hit-114-dollars-barrel From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 16 12:17:36 2008 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 Apr 2008 19:17:36 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The rise of the new energy world order Message-ID: <20080416191737.15895.qmail@resist.ca> The rise of the new energy world order Apr 17, 2008 By Michael T Klare [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/rise-new-energy-world-order URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/rise-new-energy-world-order From news at resist.ca Wed Apr 16 12:17:36 2008 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 Apr 2008 19:17:36 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] U.S. on 'monorail with a cliff at the end, ' UA prof warns Message-ID: <20080416191737.15901.qmail@resist.ca> U.S. on 'monorail with a cliff at the end,' UA prof warns The Arizona Republic Apr. 13, 2008 10:37 PM Guy R. McPherson is professor of conservation biology at the University of Arizona. McPherson was the guest last week on Live Talk Wednesday, discussing dwindling oil supplies and what awaits the American Empire. Here are excerpts from the interview, which can be found in its entirety at aztalk.azcentral.com. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/us-039monorail-cliff-end039-ua-prof-warns URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/us-039monorail-cliff-end039-ua-prof-warns From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 17 13:17:21 2008 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, 17 Apr 2008 20:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Lubicon Submission on North Central Corridor (April 14, 2008) Message-ID: <20080417201721.25758.qmail@resist.ca> STATEMENT OF THE LUBICON LAKE INDIAN NATION AT THE PREHEARING MEETING OF THE ALBERTA UTILITIES COMMISSION ON APPLICATION 1551990 OF NOVA GAS TRANSMISSION LTD, A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF THE TRANSCANADA CORPORATION, TO BUILD A 42-INCH DIAMETER GAS PIPELINE CALLED THE NORTH CENTRAL CORRIDOR PIPELINE ACROSS UNCEDED LUBICON LAND WITHOUT LUBICON CONSENT April 14, 2008 Introduction [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/lubicon-submission-north-central-corridor-april-14-2008 URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/lubicon-submission-north-central-corridor-april-14-2008 From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 17 13:17:21 2008 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, 17 Apr 2008 20:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Wake up America!" From the Rouseau River First Nation government. Message-ID: <20080417201722.25760.qmail@resist.ca> Here are the links to the videos PART 1: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyCeSgHbFbo][1] PART 2: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQqajcUCXI][2] Roseau River is serious about ensuring that the oil pipelines scheduled to pass through our territory do no pass without the government of Canada fulfilling it's lawful obligation to consult and accommodate the First Nation as set in many Supreme Court of Canada decisions. The Alberta Clipper and Keystone Project will pump $47 billion worth of crude oil to the US market every year. Ten years ago a group of us left to [read more][3] [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyCeSgHbFbo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyCeSgHbFbo) [2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQqajcUCXI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQqajcUCXI) [3]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotwake-americaquot-rouseau-river-first-nation-government URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotwake-americaquot-rouseau-river-first-nation-government From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 17 13:17:21 2008 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, 17 Apr 2008 20:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Pipeline race is on" (Mackenzie/ Alaska Highway) Message-ID: <20080417201722.25759.qmail@resist.ca> It's important to know their rhetoric, but given the lack of other natural gas sources available and the massive energy needs for the expansion of the tar sands as planned by the Governments of Alberta, Canada and the US (along with the major oil corporations and the Department of Energy) this is going to be used by one pipeline to prod the other, to get concessions, and to overall "grease the process" in order to make this pipeline or that pipeline happen faster. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotpipeline-race-onquot-mackenzie-alaska-highway URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotpipeline-race-onquot-mackenzie-alaska-highway From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 17 13:17:21 2008 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, 17 Apr 2008 20:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] [Keystone] Oil pipeline developers want ND route changes Message-ID: <20080417201722.25761.qmail@resist.ca> Oil pipeline developers want ND route changes By DALE WETZEL Associated Press Writer The Associated Press - Thursday, April 17, 2008 BISMARCK, N.D. State regulators will hold a hearing next month on 49 proposed changes in the North Dakota route of the Keystone oil pipeline, which is intended to bring crude from western Canada to Oklahoma and Illinois. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/keystone-oil-pipeline-developers-want-nd-route-changes URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/keystone-oil-pipeline-developers-want-nd-route-changes From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 17 14:17:10 2008 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, 17 Apr 2008 21:17:10 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Native chief seeks help of Venezuela's Chavez Message-ID: <20080417211710.3000.qmail@resist.ca> Native chief seeks help of Venezuela's Chavez He'll ask President to help stop profitable U.S.-bound oil pipelines JOE FRIESEN >From Thursday's Globe and Mail April 17, 2008 at 5:25 AM EDT WINNIPEG - An outspoken Canadian native leader is urging Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to throw his weight behind an attempt to block two multibillion-dollar pipelines that will transport oil from Alberta to the United States. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/native-chief-seeks-help-venezuela039s-chavez URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/native-chief-seeks-help-venezuela039s-chavez From news at resist.ca Thu Apr 17 22:17:09 2008 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 Apr 2008 05:17:09 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Lubicon's Walk Out of AUC Meeting Message-ID: <20080418051709.5922.qmail@resist.ca> [http://intercontinentalcry.org/lubicons-walk-out-of-auc-hearing/][1] ?If TransCanada tries to build this pipeline across unceded Lubicon Territory without Lubicon consent ? based on approval of an application to an Alberta Government regulatory agency that does not have legitimate authority in unceded Lubicon Territory ? the Lubicon people will oppose it every inch of the way, every way we can, for as long as TransCanada Pipelines tries to operate in Lubicon Territory.? [read more][2] [1]: http://intercontinentalcry.org/lubicons-walk-out-of-auc-hearing/ (http://intercontinentalcry.org/lubicons-walk-out-of-auc-hearing/) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/lubicon039s-walk-out-auc-meeting URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/lubicon039s-walk-out-auc-meeting From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 10:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Oil soars to record above $117 Message-ID: <20080421171705.16000.qmail@resist.ca> Oil soars to record above $117 Ikuko Kao, Reuters Published: 48 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - Crude oil prices surged above $117, setting a new record high on Monday because of worries of supply disruptions from major producers and comments by OPEC reiterating there is no need to raise output. U.S. light crude struck a record high of $117.40 a barrel. It was trading 27 cents higher at $116.96 by 1155 GMT (7:55 a.m. EDT). London Brent crude also struck its all time peak of $114.65. It was trading at $114.20, up by 28 cents. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-soars-record-above-117 URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-soars-record-above-117 From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 10:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Alberta plans to satisfy world's tar sands concerns" Message-ID: <20080421171705.16001.qmail@resist.ca> Alberta plans to satisfy world's oilsands concerns Expansion must be done responsibly, premier says RENATA D'ALIESIO, Calgary Herald Published: Friday, April 18, 2008 Alberta must develop its energy resources in a responsible and sustainable way because the eyes of the world are closely watching, Premier Ed Stelmach said Thursday. In particular, they're eyeing the oilsands and how the second-largest reserve in the world is developed. Stelmach noted $20 billion of new investment is projected for the oilsands this year, according to Statistics Canada. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotalberta-plans-satisfy-world039s-oilsands-concernsquot URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotalberta-plans-satisfy-world039s-oilsands-concernsquot From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 10:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Senator wants U.S. bill killed that limits tar sands imports Message-ID: <20080421171705.16002.qmail@resist.ca> Senator wants U.S. bill killed that limits oilsands imports Canadian energy key to security of America Dan Healing, With a file from Geoffrey Scotton, Calgary Herald Published: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 A U.S. senator called Tuesday for the repeal as soon as possible of an energy bill provision signed into law by President George W. Bush in December that could prevent government purchases of fuel originating in Alberta's oilsands. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/senator-wants-us-bill-killed-limits-tar-sands-imports URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/senator-wants-us-bill-killed-limits-tar-sands-imports From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 10:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] They Can't Just Walk All Over Us: Farmers Resiste a Pipeline Message-ID: <20080421171706.16003.qmail@resist.ca> They Can't Just Walk All Over Us: Farmers Resiste a Pipeline Kari Lydersen, April 2008, The Progressive Carlisle Kelly saved money from his Amtrak job for years to buy one of the last remaining wooded pieces of land in the expansive farm country of central Illinois . Because, as he tells it, "I'm crazy about the animals." An avid hunter and outdoorsman, he wanted to preserve the ancient oaks on a rare hilly, neverfarmed area near LeRoy, Illinois, and restore farmland back into native foliage for wild turkeys and deer. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/they-can039t-just-walk-all-over-us-farmers-resiste-pipeline URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/they-can039t-just-walk-all-over-us-farmers-resiste-pipeline From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 10:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] BP Sent Talking Points to Governor (Whiting Refinery Expansion, Indiana) Message-ID: <20080421171706.16010.qmail@resist.ca> Report: BP Sent Talking Points to Governor InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report The Office of Governor Mitch Daniels is denying any intervention on behalf of BP Whiting's request for an air permit after the Gary Post-Tribune reports that the company maintained contact with state officials. The Post-Tribune obtained materials include talking points, advance copies of newspaper ads and company responses to media inquiries. The Post-Tribune also reports that BP met with state officials prior to a public hearing on the air permit. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/bp-sent-talking-points-governor-whiting-refinery-expansion-indiana URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/bp-sent-talking-points-governor-whiting-refinery-expansion-indiana From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 10:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Rain doesn't halt BP protest (Whiting Indiana) Message-ID: <20080421171706.16009.qmail@resist.ca> Rain doesn't halt BP protest By Erik Potter (Chicago) Post-Tribune April 21, 2008 Mother Earth was feeling a little crabby on Saturday's Earth Day activities in Whiting. Rain pounded the area all day, but subsided long enough for the group of area residents and environmentalists to hold an outdoors rally at Whiting's Whihala County Park. The group was protesting the $3.8 billion expansion of the BP's Whiting Refinery facility, which will allow it to process crude oil extracted from Canadian tar sand. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/rain-doesn039t-halt-bp-protest-whiting-indiana URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/rain-doesn039t-halt-bp-protest-whiting-indiana From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 11:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] China's thirst for oil isn't being quenched by Albertan crude Message-ID: <20080421181705.10724.qmail@resist.ca> China's thirst for oil isn't being quenched by Albertan crude Relations between Canada and 'the dragon' are at a 30-year low, expert says Shaun Polczer, Canwest News Service April 21, 2008 Despite Asia's insatiable thirst for oil, the prospects for oil exports from Alberta to the Far East are growing more remote by the day, a leading China expert said in Calgary last week. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/china039s-thirst-oil-isn039t-being-quenched-albertan-crude URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/china039s-thirst-oil-isn039t-being-quenched-albertan-crude From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 11:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Poor leadership nudged push for eminent domain" [Keystone Pipeline] Message-ID: <20080421181705.10727.qmail@resist.ca> Poor leadership nudged push for eminent domain (S Dakota) Apr 20, 2008 Eminent domain is now front and center in the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline project. Eminent domain, according to library.findlaw.com, is sometimes called "condemnation," and is the legal process by which a public body (and certain private bodies, such as utility companies, railroads, redevelopment corporations and -- in this case -- a pipeline company) is given the legal power to acquire private property for a use that has been declared to be public by a constitution, statute or ordinance. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotpoor-leadership-nudged-push-eminent-domainquot-keystone-pipeline URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotpoor-leadership-nudged-push-eminent-domainquot-keystone-pipeline From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 12:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Signed, Sealed, Delivered [Keystone Pipeline] Message-ID: <20080421191705.22208.qmail@resist.ca> Signed, sealed, delivered Posted: April 21, 2008 // Indian Country Today by: Stephanie Woodard Environmental concerns plague fast-tracked oil pipeline STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - In March 2008, the U.S. Department of State issued a federal permit for the 2,000-mile TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, which would carry heavy crude oil from the oil sands of northern Alberta across seven U.S. states to Oklahoma. The document was signed, even though mandated government-to-government consultations with concerned Native nations were described as ''ongoing'' by the State Department. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/signed-sealed-delivered-keystone-pipeline URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/signed-sealed-delivered-keystone-pipeline From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 22 10:17:05 2008 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, 22 Apr 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The Political Economics of Greenwashing Message-ID: <20080422171705.9819.qmail@resist.ca> April 22, 2008 The Political Economics of Greenwashing Green as a Blackjack Table By STAN COX Hard times are looming. And in their desperation to keep the American economy afloat, government and business will be tossing overboard any proposals for real environmental protection. No time for such romantic foolishness when there are investments to be protected. Get those tax refunds back into retailers' registers, quick! [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/political-economics-greenwashing URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/political-economics-greenwashing From news at resist.ca Mon Apr 21 10:17:05 2008 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, 21 Apr 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Whiting Indiana hosts Earth Day event Message-ID: <20080421171706.16005.qmail@resist.ca> Whiting hosts Earth Day event BY DEBORAH LAVERTY Sunday, April 20, 2008 WHITING | A San Francisco-based environmentalist on Saturday encouraged a group gathered at an Earth Day event to get involved to make a difference. "Industry is unaccountable. ... On the other side we're seeing people stand up to them when they get organized and get educated. You're invincible," said Ruth Breech, of Global Community Monitor. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/whiting-indiana-hosts-earth-day-event URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/whiting-indiana-hosts-earth-day-event From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 22 12:17:28 2008 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, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:28 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Downstream from tarsands, Fort Smith worries over water Message-ID: <20080422191728.18515.qmail@resist.ca> Downstream from tarsands, Fort Smith worries over water Monday, April 21, 2008 CBC News Concerned residents in Fort Smith, N.W.T., met Saturday to talk about the water they drink, and how tarsands development south of the town may be affecting its quality. "We don't know the answers. We don't know what's in our water," resident Keith Hartery said at Saturday night's public meeting in Fort Smith, located on the N.W.T.-Alberta border. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/downstream-tarsands-fort-smith-worries-over-water URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/downstream-tarsands-fort-smith-worries-over-water From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 22 12:17:28 2008 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, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:28 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Foreign workers should ask boss for language help in order to file complaints: minister" Message-ID: <20080422191728.18516.qmail@resist.ca> I swear I'm not making this up. It's real. Got a problem employer in the Temporary Foreign Worker program where they can send you home tomorrow? Having trouble with English? The Alberta Government wants you to ask your boss to help translate a complaint against him/her. Isn't that wonderful? Problem solved, now go back to bed you idiots! I really, really wish I *were* making this up. -- M Foreign workers should ask boss for language help: minister April 22, 2008 // Edmonton Sun [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotforeign-workers-should-ask-boss-language-help-order-file-complaints-ministerquot URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotforeign-workers-should-ask-boss-language-help-order-file-complaints-ministerquot From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 22 13:17:09 2008 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, 22 Apr 2008 20:17:09 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Opponents line up against proposed Alberta Clipper tar sands oil pipeline (Minnesota) Message-ID: <20080422201709.17479.qmail@resist.ca> Opponents line up against proposed Canada oil pipeline by Bob Kelleher, Minnesota Public Radio April 22, 2008 A new oil pipeline proposed in northern Minnesota is getting resistance from an unusual direction. Opponents say the large pipeline would contribute significantly to global warming -- not so much from the oil itself, but for how the oil is extracted in Canada. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/opponents-line-against-proposed-alberta-clipper-tar-sands-oil-pipeline-minnesota URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/opponents-line-against-proposed-alberta-clipper-tar-sands-oil-pipeline-minnesota From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 22 13:17:08 2008 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, 22 Apr 2008 20:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The hottest housing market in North America, driven by tar sands oil Message-ID: <20080422201709.17478.qmail@resist.ca> The hottest housing market in North America, driven by oil By Marshall Loeb, MarketWatch Last update: 7:38 p.m. EDT April 21, 2008 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A boom of unprecedented dimensions is sweeping Canada's spectacularly scenic western province of Alberta, the Texas-sized territory with a population of 3 million that is home to a pair of world-class cities -- Calgary (population 1.2 million) and Edmonton (population 1.1 million). [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/hottest-housing-market-north-america-driven-tar-sands-oil URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/hottest-housing-market-north-america-driven-tar-sands-oil From news at resist.ca Tue Apr 22 13:17:09 2008 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, 22 Apr 2008 20:17:09 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Bolivian president proposes radical measures to save planet Message-ID: <20080422201709.17480.qmail@resist.ca> Bolivian president proposes radical measures to save planet Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/bolivian-president-proposes-radical-measures-save-planet URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/bolivian-president-proposes-radical-measures-save-planet