From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 2 01:17:15 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 Jan 2008 09:17:15 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Peak Oil And Dunbar's Number Message-ID: <20080102091715.21033.qmail@resist.ca> Peak Oil And Dunbar's Number By Peter Goodchild 29 December, 2007 // Countercurrents.org [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-and-dunbar039s-number URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-and-dunbar039s-number From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 2 01:17:15 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 Jan 2008 09:17:15 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Top 10 Global Warming Stories of 2007 Message-ID: <20080102091715.21034.qmail@resist.ca> Top 10 Global Warming Stories of 2007 What events or actions had the most positive or negative impact on the likelihood that the nation and the world will act in time to avoid catastrophic warming? Here are my picks: [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/top-10-global-warming-stories-2007 URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/top-10-global-warming-stories-2007 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 2 02:17:19 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: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] More on the Social Meltdown of Fort McMurray Message-ID: <20080102101719.29315.qmail@resist.ca> Oilpatch braces for new arrivals Dec 04, 2007 09:07 AM // Dean Bennett THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT McMURRAY, Alta. ? Fifty-seven year old Gerald Morrison has only 18 months to go before he can "get out of Dodge" and retire to Port Hawkesbury, N.S. But until then, the Syncrude refinery technician has to get a roomie to meet the $2,950 monthly rent on a three-bedroom apartment north of the downtown core, which comes complete with leaks in the ceiling, frosted-over panes and window sills spongy with rot. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/more-social-meltdown-fort-mcmurray URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/more-social-meltdown-fort-mcmurray From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 2 02:17:19 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: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Kitimat: Enbridge Revives Gateway, Looking to Super Tanker Tar Sands Bitumen to Asia Message-ID: <20080102101720.29316.qmail@resist.ca> Pipeline to B.C. back on track Asian demand for Alberta crude makes 1,300-km route to B.C. port feasible, Enbridge president says Gordon Jaremko, The Edmonton Journal Published: Saturday, December 29 2007 Courses are being charted for supertankers to fetch Alberta oil for Asia from a new British Columbia terminal planned for Kitimat. Engineers are designing tunnels to put a new pipeline beneath the mountains between Edmonton and the Pacific Ocean without scarring alpine scenery or wildlife habitat. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/kitimat-enbridge-revives-gateway-looking-super-tanker-tar-sands-bitumen-asia URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/kitimat-enbridge-revives-gateway-looking-super-tanker-tar-sands-bitumen-asia From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 2 02:17:18 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 Jan 2008 10:17:18 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] North Dakota: TRANSCANADA KEYSTONE PIPELINE: Looking north Message-ID: <20080102101719.29314.qmail@resist.ca> A very significant statement, buried within the article below, produced for a North Dakota audience, in that is shows basically why EVERY SINGLE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT is a crock of doo-doo. Cumulative Impacts are measured, or there is nothing to look at within a report. It's really quite simple-- if the report does not factor in all the ways in which the environment is impacted by development, then you don't have an impact of development to the environment report. Everything else then, is a smoke and mirrors game. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/north-dakota-transcanada-keystone-pipeline-looking-north URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/north-dakota-transcanada-keystone-pipeline-looking-north From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 2 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: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Oil Hits $100 a Barrel for the First Time Message-ID: <20080103001705.6130.qmail@resist.ca> January 2, 2008 Oil Hits $100 a Barrel for the First Time By JAD MOUAWAD Oil prices reached the symbolic level of $100 a barrel for the first time on Wednesday, a long-awaited milestone in an era of rapidly escalating energy demand. Crude oil futures for February delivery hit $100 on the New York Mercantile Exchange shortly after noon New York time, before falling back slightly. Oil prices, which had fallen to a low of $50 a barrel at the beginning of 2007, have quadrupled since 2003. Futures settled at $99.62, up $3.64 on the day. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-hits-100-barrel-first-time URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-hits-100-barrel-first-time From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 3 12:17:29 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 Jan 2008 20:17:29 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Canada's forests aren't bailing us out, study says Message-ID: <20080103201730.16192.qmail@resist.ca> Canada's forests aren't bailing us out, study says Not getting better at absorbing gases. And longer growing seasons no help, after all Thursday ? January 3 ? 2008 TOM SPEARS CanWest News Service Last year brought glum news that Canada's forests are only a so-so defence against global warming. Today, it gets a little worse: We thought our forests were getting better at soaking up greenhouse gases, but they're not. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/canada039s-forests-aren039t-bailing-us-out-study-says URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/canada039s-forests-aren039t-bailing-us-out-study-says From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 3 12:17:29 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 Jan 2008 20:17:29 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] =?utf-8?q?B=E2=80=99y-gone?= Era Message-ID: <20080103201730.16195.qmail@resist.ca> B?y-gone ERA A story of over there, from over here PETER WORDEN Special to The Telegram Lonely and full of not-so-happy-go-lucky individualism, Alberta?s oil patch is a unique place. No doubt about that. No doubt, also, an important chapter in Newfoundland?s story is being written on the Prairies. Tired jokes float around about Newfoundland?s second-largest city being Fort McMurray; that Newfoundland?s Come Home Year is Alberta?s ?Go Home? Year; that Alberta is New Newfoundland. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/b%E2%80%99ygone-era URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/b%E2%80%99ygone-era From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 3 12:17:29 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 Jan 2008 20:17:29 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] What's new at the tar sands? Message-ID: <20080103201729.16191.qmail@resist.ca> What's new at the tar sands? by Dave Cohen _My neighbor has a circular driveway ... he can't get out. ?Steven Wright _ [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/what039s-new-tar-sands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/what039s-new-tar-sands From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 3 13:17:06 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: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:17:06 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Muslims drawn to Grande Prairie Message-ID: <20080103211707.8725.qmail@resist.ca> Muslims drawn to Grande Prairie Population surge puts strain on local services Tom McMillan, The Edmonton Journal Published: Wednesday, January 02 Grande Prairie's Muslim population is in the midst of a rapid growth spurt, leaving the community scrambling to find facilities for education and prayer. "A few years ago, there were eight or nine Muslim families here," said Edward Houssain, president of the Islamic Association of Grande Prairie and District. "Now, there are more than anyone knows." [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/muslims-drawn-grande-prairie URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/muslims-drawn-grande-prairie From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 3 13:17:07 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 Jan 2008 21:17:07 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] $100 oil puts a new shine on Alberta Message-ID: <20080103211707.8727.qmail@resist.ca> $100 oil puts a new shine on Alberta Record prices will fuel the world's interest in the oil sands, even as extraction costs soar DAVID PARKINSON // January 3, 2008 Deepening nervousness over long-term global energy supplies will put Canada's rich oil sands even more in the global energy spotlight, economists said yesterday as crude touched $100 (U.S.) a barrel for the first time. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/100-oil-puts-new-shine-alberta URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/100-oil-puts-new-shine-alberta From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 3 13:17:07 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 Jan 2008 21:17:07 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Industry refutes allegations of widespread mistreatment of temporary foreign workers" Message-ID: <20080103211707.8726.qmail@resist.ca> This article is put out by the "Journal of Commerce", and is a taste of the lengths that the system is going to in order to create the vast slavery pool that is the "Temporary Foreign Worker" program. Take note of their "explanations". Keep in mind that if the goals for production -- five times current levels, as spelled out by the Security and Prosperity Partnership [SPP]-- are to even be considered, TENS OF THOUSANDS of such workers will be needed for all aspects of tar sands 'development'. --M Industry refutes allegations of widespread mistreatment of temporary foreign workers [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotindustry-refutes-allegations-widespread-mistreatment-temporary-foreign-workersquot URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotindustry-refutes-allegations-widespread-mistreatment-temporary-foreign-workersquot From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 3 13:17:07 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 Jan 2008 21:17:07 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Sex workers cashing in on Alberta's oil boom Message-ID: <20080103211707.8728.qmail@resist.ca> Sex workers cashing in on Alberta's oil boom Last Updated: Monday, April 16, 2007 | 3:30 AM MT CBC News Alberta's red-hot economy appears to be fuelling a flourishing sex trade as prostitutes follow men to the oil and gas fields. And they're making big money when they get there, the sex-trade workers say. "Truckers are big business and they're on the road for long stretches of time and they want to have adult entertainment," says Chastity, one of the strippers frequently seen working the bars in small boomtowns such as High Level, Alta. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/sex-workers-cashing-alberta039s-oil-boom URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/sex-workers-cashing-alberta039s-oil-boom From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 3 14:17:32 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: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:17:32 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] AFL: Government foreign worker office long overdue - but still misses the point Message-ID: <20080103221733.19416.qmail@resist.ca> Government foreign worker office long overdue - but still misses the point Labour cautiously optimistic over government's foreign worker advocates EDMONTON, Dec. 10 /CNW/ - The Alberta Federation of Labour reacted with guarded optimism to the Government's new measures announced today to protect temporary foreign workers. The two special advisory offices for temporary foreign workers are a welcome - if long overdue - measure," says AFL President Gil McGowan. "The AFL had set up its own temporary foreign workers' advocate office last spring as a [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/afl-government-foreign-worker-office-long-overdue-still-misses-point URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/afl-government-foreign-worker-office-long-overdue-still-misses-point From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 4 10:17:10 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: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Court ruling means Alberta's recreational drug users risk their jobs Message-ID: <20080104181710.27524.qmail@resist.ca> Sobering thoughts Court ruling means Alberta's recreational drug users risk their jobs By MINDY JACOBS // Fri, January 4, 2008 Casual pot smokers in Alberta who want to work in safety-sensitive positions had better pack up and move to Ontario. They're no longer welcome in the oilpatch. A ruling by the Alberta Court of Appeal gives the green light to companies to fire -- or refuse to hire -- recreational pot users if they pose a potential safety risk. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/court-ruling-means-alberta039s-recreational-drug-users-risk-their-jobs URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/court-ruling-means-alberta039s-recreational-drug-users-risk-their-jobs From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 4 10:17:10 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: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Fuelling Disaster: Beyond =?utf-8?b?QWxiZXJ0YeKAmXM=?= Culture of Resource Dependence Message-ID: <20080104181710.27525.qmail@resist.ca> Fuelling Disaster: Beyond Alberta?s Culture of Resource Dependence by Gordon Laird, Parkland Institute Editorialist Alberta [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/fuelling-disaster-beyond-alberta%E2%80%99s-culture-resource-dependence URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/fuelling-disaster-beyond-alberta%E2%80%99s-culture-resource-dependence From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 4 11:17:08 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: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Utah: Tar Sands, Oil Shale best left in the ground Message-ID: <20080104191708.20064.qmail@resist.ca> Price too high: Weigh all costs of energy from oil shale, tar sands Salt Lake Tribune Editorial // 01/01/2008 02:13:04 PM MST It's obvious the Bush administration wants to go on record with the energy industry as having done everything it could to encourage development of oil deposits in the West, even those embedded in tar sands and shale, no matter the cost to the region's wild lands. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/utah-tar-sands-oil-shale-best-left-ground URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/utah-tar-sands-oil-shale-best-left-ground From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 4 11:17:08 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: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Liberal Opposition Criticize Alberta Inaction on Fort Chip Health Message-ID: <20080104191709.20066.qmail@resist.ca> Liberal Opposition Criticize Alberta Inaction on Fort Chip Health By LEA STORRY, SRJ Editor 17.DEC.07 Alberta Health and Wellness is not saying anything new in terms of a controversial report to come out of Fort Chipewyan. But the Alberta Liberal caucus thinks the Conservatives need to take a look at what they?re doing to the province. ?The government is not doing due diligence in Fort Chipewyan,? stated Laurie Blakeman, MLA Edmonton-Centre and Liberal shadow minister for health and wellness. ?The government tests the wrong thing at the wrong time for the wrong people.? [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/liberal-opposition-criticize-alberta-inaction-fort-chip-health URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/liberal-opposition-criticize-alberta-inaction-fort-chip-health From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 4 11:17:08 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: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Hear no peak"-- Letter to the Financial Times Message-ID: <20080104191708.20065.qmail@resist.ca> Hear no peak by David Strahan Letter to the Financial Times Sir: Just as the Financial Times? news coverage of oil was beginning to improve (?Oil watchdog reworks reserves forecasts?, 27.12.07), Lex goes and spoils it with a truly shoddy analysis: ?Peak no evil? (03.01.08) rehearsed all the old myths that have been comprehensively debunked in recent years. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quothear-no-peakquot-letter-financial-times URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quothear-no-peakquot-letter-financial-times From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 5 15:17:10 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: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:17:10 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Still no interest in exploring high Arctic": official Message-ID: <20080105231710.10564.qmail@resist.ca> Still no interest in exploring high Arctic: official Last Updated: Friday, January 4, 2008 | 9:36 AM CT CBC News Companies have yet to take up the federal government's invitation to explore the high Arctic for oil and gas, even though that invitation has been extended for the sixth year in a row. Richard Casey, an official with the federal Indian and Northern Affairs Department, told CBC News that there has been no interest from any company to explore for oil and gas around Axel Heiberg Island, located west of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, or in any surrounding areas. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotstill-no-interest-exploring-high-arcticquot-official URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotstill-no-interest-exploring-high-arcticquot-official From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 5 15:17:10 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: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:17:10 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] TransCanada wins bid to build natural gas pipeline out of Alaska Message-ID: <20080105231710.10563.qmail@resist.ca> TransCanada wins bid to build natural gas pipeline out of Alaska January 4, 2008 - 18:57 By: Jeannette Lee, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) has beat out four competitors in a bid to build a natural gas pipeline out of Alaska that would supply energy to millions of consumers throughout North America, state officials announced Friday. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/transcanada-wins-bid-build-natural-gas-pipeline-out-alaska URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/transcanada-wins-bid-build-natural-gas-pipeline-out-alaska From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 5 15:17:10 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: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:17:10 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Medicine at the crossroads of energy and climate change Message-ID: <20080105231710.10565.qmail@resist.ca> Medicine at the crossroads of energy and climate change by Dan Bednarz, Ph.D. and Kristin Bradford, M.D., M.P.H. [all citations listed can be found at the url posted at the end of the article] [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/medicine-crossroads-energy-and-climate-change URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/medicine-crossroads-energy-and-climate-change From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 9 20:17:08 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: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Gas producers await fate of Alaska pipeline Message-ID: <20080110041708.4050.qmail@resist.ca> Gas producers await fate of Alaska pipeline West at risk Jon Harding, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 CALGARY -- Almost half the natural gas pipeline capacity leaving Alberta today for markets across the continent could sit empty by 2018 unless an Alaska pipeline gets built and connects to the Alberta hub, says a new study by the Canadian Energy Research Institute. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/gas-producers-await-fate-alaska-pipeline URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/gas-producers-await-fate-alaska-pipeline From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 9 20:17:08 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: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Government Responsible for Sustainable Tar Sands Development Message-ID: <20080110041708.4053.qmail@resist.ca> January 6, 2008 Government Responsible for Sustainable Tar Sands Development by Rachel Penner de Waal The Dominion - [http://www.dominionpaper.ca][1] Alberta's current royalty regime has likely cost the province more in lost revenue than Trudeau's National Energy Program did, according to a senior policy analyst at the Pembina Institute. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.dominionpaper.ca (http://www.dominionpaper.ca) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/government-responsible-sustainable-tar-sands-development URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/government-responsible-sustainable-tar-sands-development From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 9 20:17:08 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: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] [Utah] BLM: Tar sand development may hurt parks Message-ID: <20080110041708.4051.qmail@resist.ca> BLM: Tar sand development may hurt parks By BOBBY MAGILL The Daily Sentinel Monday, January 07, 2008 Tar sands development could severely affect Utah?s Canyonlands National Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and a stretch of the San Rafael Swell along Interstate 70, according to a Bureau of Land Management report. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/utah-blm-tar-sand-development-may-hurt-parks URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/utah-blm-tar-sand-development-may-hurt-parks From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 9 20:17:08 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: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Impacting Unimpaired: The SPP and TILMA are aimed directly at unimpeded extraction in the tar sands Message-ID: <20080110041709.4054.qmail@resist.ca> January 7, 2008 Impacting Unimpaired New agreements like the SPP and TILMA are aimed directly at unimpeded extraction in the tar sands by Macdonald Stainsby The Dominion - [http://www.dominionpaper.ca][1] [read more][2] [1]: http://www.dominionpaper.ca (http://www.dominionpaper.ca) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/impacting-unimpaired-spp-and-tilma-are-aimed-directly-unimpeded-extraction-tar-sands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/impacting-unimpaired-spp-and-tilma-are-aimed-directly-unimpeded-extraction-tar-sands From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 9 20:17:08 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: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:17:08 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Action must be taken now to deal with peak of oil Message-ID: <20080110041709.4056.qmail@resist.ca> Action must be taken now to deal with peak of oil Jan 05, 2008 04:30 AM Tyler Hamilton raises three crucial points in his article: Gasoline prices, the Canadian-U.S. dollar exchange rate and crude oil have all passed a critical benchmark over a short period of time. Not only is this a sign of fundamental changes within our economy, it is unfortunately very much beyond control of the Canadian consumer. It is high time for the government to realize that the world oil peak is imminent and that necessary adjustments will require years to impact our energy economy. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/action-must-be-taken-now-deal-peak-oil URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/action-must-be-taken-now-deal-peak-oil From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 11 07:17:05 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: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Conservative Ploy to Neuter Canada's Nuclear Regulatory Agency to supply nuclear to the tarpits Message-ID: <20080111151706.4188.qmail@resist.ca> Conservative Ploy To Neuter Canada's Nuclear Regulatory Agency PEJ News - Al Rycroft - Under the guise of providing medical isotopes for the world the Conservative Government in Ottawa has initiated a high stakes game to neuter Canada's nuclear regulatory agency by threatening to fire its president. The ultimate goal of this game of chicken is to deliver a controllable "nuclear regulator" to the government to allow the unfettered re-development of nuclear power in Canada and the export of Candu reactors to the rest of the world - safety be damned... [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/conservative-ploy-neuter-canada039s-nuclear-regulatory-agency-supply-nuclear-tarpits URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/conservative-ploy-neuter-canada039s-nuclear-regulatory-agency-supply-nuclear-tarpits From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 11 07:17:05 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: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] A Kinder, Gentler Tar Sands, brought to you by the Pembina Institute and World Wildlife Fund Message-ID: <20080111151706.4187.qmail@resist.ca> What is it that prevents Pembina Institute and WWF from just saying "Stop!" to the tar sands instead of just lobbying to improve their "environmental performance." Maybe it is something to do with the fact that they both receive multi-million dollar funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts, whose parent companies Sun Oil/Sunoco built the first tar sands project in 1967 and who continue to refine large amounts of sythetic tar sands crude oil in Ohio and are planning to extend tar sands supply pipelines as far east as their refineries in Philadelphia. - Tarpit Pete [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/kinder-gentler-tar-sands-brought-you-pembina-institute-and-world-wildlife-fund URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/kinder-gentler-tar-sands-brought-you-pembina-institute-and-world-wildlife-fund From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 11 17:17:14 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, 12 Jan 2008 01:17:14 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Suncor production misses mark Message-ID: <20080112011715.7802.qmail@resist.ca> Suncor production misses mark Jan 11, 2008 04:30 AM CALGARY?Suncor Energy Inc. says its oil-sands production during 2007 averaged about 236,000 barrels per day, short of the target 240,000 to 245,000. In December, output at Suncor's oil-sands operation at Fort McMurray, Alta., averaged 234,000 barrels per day, down from 266,000 in November. Suncor reports production numbers monthly from its operations. The numbers are preliminary and subject to adjustment. Production volumes will be confirmed when fourth-quarter financial results are released Jan. 22. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/suncor-production-misses-mark URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/suncor-production-misses-mark From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 11 17:17:14 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, 12 Jan 2008 01:17:14 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] S.Dakota: Keystone Pipeline Passes Regulatory Hurdle Message-ID: <20080112011715.7803.qmail@resist.ca> Jan. 11, 2008, 12:08PM S.D.: Pipeline Passes Regulatory Hurdle By DIRK LAMMERS AP Business Writer SIOUX FALLS, S.D. ? A proposed oil pipeline that would deliver Canadian crude to U.S. refineries has passed another regulatory hurdle. TransCanada Corp. said Friday that it has received a Final Environmental Impact Statement from the U.S. State Department that says its planned Keystone Pipeline project would result in limited adverse environmental impacts. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/sdakota-keystone-pipeline-passes-regulatory-hurdle URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/sdakota-keystone-pipeline-passes-regulatory-hurdle From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 11 17:17:14 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, 12 Jan 2008 01:17:14 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Canada tar sands projects flunk green test-groups Message-ID: <20080112011715.7801.qmail@resist.ca> Canada oil sands projects flunk green test-groups By Jeffrey Jones CALGARY, Alberta, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Canadian oil sands mining projects, seen as a key source of North American energy supply for decades to come, have been given poor environmental marks in a report released on Thursday, with even the best performer barely garnering a passing grade. Environmental groups Pembina Institute and World Wildlife Fund surveyed 10 Alberta oil sands ventures, including seven yet to start producing, for attention to land, air emissions, water, climate change and overall environmental management. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/canada-oil-sands-projects-flunk-green-testgroups URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/canada-oil-sands-projects-flunk-green-testgroups From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 11 17:17:15 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, 12 Jan 2008 01:17:15 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] High oil prices? You =?utf-8?b?YWlu4oCZdA==?= seen nothing yet Message-ID: <20080112011715.7804.qmail@resist.ca> High oil prices? You ain?t seen nothing yet Week of January 13, 2008 // Petroleum News If you think $100 per barrel oil is costly, consider $180 per barrel oil. The former is here, while the latter may be in our not-too-distant future, according to two well-known oil industry analysts. While energy prices retreated during the second week of January amid continued signs of a slowing economy and forecasts for mild weather in the Northeast, crude oil prices are still hovering about 70 percent higher than year-ago levels. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/high-oil-prices-you-ain%E2%80%99t-seen-nothing-yet URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/high-oil-prices-you-ain%E2%80%99t-seen-nothing-yet From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 12 13:17:05 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, 12 Jan 2008 21:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Detroit: Say no to refinery expansion (for Albertan Tar Sands) Message-ID: <20080112211706.10522.qmail@resist.ca> Detroit: Say no to refinery expansion January 10, 2008 By ED McARDLE In the debate over record gas prices, some experts point to dwindling supplies unable to meet soaring demand, while others stress lack of refinery capacity in the United States. Marathon Oil believes it has the answer. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/detroit-say-no-refinery-expansion-albertan-tar-sands URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/detroit-say-no-refinery-expansion-albertan-tar-sands From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 13 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: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The Peak Oil Crisis: Storm of the Century Message-ID: <20080113201706.13364.qmail@resist.ca> The Peak Oil Crisis: Storm of the Century by Tom Whipple Falls Church News Press (December 27 2007) A "Perfect storm" refers to the simultaneous occurrence of events which, taken individually, would be far less powerful than the result of their chance combination. Such occurrences are rare by their very nature. -- Wikipedia In recent weeks we have been bombarded with reports of perturbations in the mortgage/liquidity crisis that is creating havoc in the financial world. The travails of the "financial industry", as it is called these days, [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-crisis-storm-century URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-crisis-storm-century From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 13 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: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:17:09 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] First Nations vow to occupy eastern Ont. site to block uranium mining Message-ID: <20080113211709.300.qmail@resist.ca> First Nations vow to occupy eastern Ont. site to block uranium mining Keith Leslie, THE CANADIAN PRESS Published Friday January 11th, 2008 TORONTO - Aboriginals in eastern Ontario warned Friday that they would ignore a court order and illegally occupy the site of a proposed uranium mine north of Kingston later this month unless the province calls a halt to the project. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/first-nations-vow-occupy-eastern-ont-site-block-uranium-mining URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/first-nations-vow-occupy-eastern-ont-site-block-uranium-mining From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 14 13:17:56 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 Jan 2008 21:17:56 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Big Oil's Profits and Plunder Message-ID: <20080114211756.27837.qmail@resist.ca> by Ralph Nader, Nader.org AlterNet (January 08 2008) While many impoverished American families are shivering in the winter cold for lack of money to pay the oil baron their exorbitant price for home heating oil, ex-oil man, George W Bush sleeps in a warm White House and relishes his defeat of the Congressional attempt to get rid of $15 billion in unconscionable tax breaks given those same profit-glutted oil companies like ExxonMobil when crude oil was half the price it is today. This is the same George W Bush who, calling himself a "compassionate [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/big-oil039s-profits-and-plunder URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/big-oil039s-profits-and-plunder From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 14 14:17:18 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 Jan 2008 22:17:18 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Hard Times Sold in Vending Machines Message-ID: <20080114221719.666.qmail@resist.ca> Hard Times Sold in Vending Machines Worker migration from Atlantic Canada to the tar sands January 8, 2008 by Stuart Neatby The Dominion - [http://www.dominionpaper.ca][1] [read more][2] [1]: http://www.dominionpaper.ca (http://www.dominionpaper.ca) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/hard-times-sold-vending-machines URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/hard-times-sold-vending-machines From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 14 14:17:19 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: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Stelmach Goes to Washington; Controversial Kearl Tar Sands Project Goes to Court Message-ID: <20080114221719.667.qmail@resist.ca> EcoJustice: Stelmach Goes to Washington; Controversial Kearl Tar Sands Project Goes to Court [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/stelmach-goes-washington-controversial-kearl-tar-sands-project-goes-court URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/stelmach-goes-washington-controversial-kearl-tar-sands-project-goes-court From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 14 15:17:12 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 Jan 2008 23:17:12 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Greenland Opens to Oil Firms Message-ID: <20080114231713.20785.qmail@resist.ca> Greenland Opens to Oil Firms Associated Press 01.14.08, 4:50 PM ET HOUSTON - Rising temperatures are giving Greenland the opportunity to tap into billions of barrels of oil and gas trapped under ice. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/greenland-opens-oil-firms URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/greenland-opens-oil-firms From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 14 15:17:12 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 Jan 2008 23:17:12 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Globalization is Fueling Global Warming Message-ID: <20080114231713.20786.qmail@resist.ca> Globalization is Fueling Global Warming by Les Leopold AlterNet (December 28 2007) As global warming negotiations move from Bali towards a worldwide treaty, it is important to address how global warming and global trade work hand-in-hand. Globalization is to global warming what warm water in the Gulf of Mexico waters was to Hurricane Katrina. And, unless we wisely limit rapidly accelerating global trade, we will see equally disastrous and deadly results - worsening global warming and a continued chemical poisoning of our world. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/globalization-fueling-global-warming URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/globalization-fueling-global-warming From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 14 15:17:13 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 Jan 2008 23:17:13 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The Dirty Dilemma of Canadian Crude... Message-ID: <20080114231713.20787.qmail@resist.ca> The Dirty Dilemma of Canadian Crude Tar sands oil comes at an environmental cost. But blocking it from the U.S. may make matters worse By Damian Joseph January 21, 2008 [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/dirty-dilemma-canadian-crude URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/dirty-dilemma-canadian-crude From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 20 00:17:20 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: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:17:20 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] N Dakota: Feds say Keystone =?utf-8?b?d29u4oCZdA==?= harm environment Message-ID: <20080120081720.8878.qmail@resist.ca> Feds say Keystone won?t harm environment Janell Cole N.D. Capitol Bureau Published Friday, January 18, 2008 BISMARCK ? The TransCanada Keystone Pipeline ?would result in limited adverse environmental impacts? in North Dakota and other states it will pass through, the U.S. government says. The State Department has released its final environmental impact statement on the project, though it will still accept public comment until approximately Feb. 11, then issue a final order, according to a cover letter to ?colleagues and stakeholders? dated Jan. 11. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/n-dakota-feds-say-keystone-won%E2%80%99t-harm-environment URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/n-dakota-feds-say-keystone-won%E2%80%99t-harm-environment From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 22 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: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Peak oil: Why is it so difficult to explain/understand? Message-ID: <20080122211721.32729.qmail@resist.ca> Published on 10 Jan 2008 by Energy Bulletin. Archived on 20 Jan 2008. Peak oil: Why is it so difficult to explain/understand? by Martin Payne After several years of partial success in explaining the physics-based phenomenon sometimes known as ?Peak Oil?, this author has come to one conclusion: Peak Oil is difficult to explain, and it is difficult for most people to understand. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-why-it-so-difficult-explainunderstand URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-why-it-so-difficult-explainunderstand From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 22 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: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Premier tells U.S. that environmental toll from tar sands is a "myth" Message-ID: <20080122211721.32730.qmail@resist.ca> Premier tells U.S. that environmental toll from oilsands is a "myth" 5 days ago WASHINGTON - Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach asked American business leaders Wednesday not to buy into the "myth" that oilsands production comes at too high an environmental cost, saying attempts to curtail it "don't make sense." But he faced disbelieving protesters at every turn on the first day of his trade visit to the United States, including about 35 environmentalists who passed out flyers to guests arriving at a Canadian embassy reception. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/premier-tells-us-environmental-toll-tar-sands-quotmythquot URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/premier-tells-us-environmental-toll-tar-sands-quotmythquot From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 22 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: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Selling out sovereignty in orbit and the North Message-ID: <20080122211721.32732.qmail@resist.ca> Selling out sovereignty in orbit and the North Jan 22, 2008 04:30 AM Michael Byers Stephen Harper talks a fine game on Arctic sovereignty. He's told Canadians that we need to "use it or lose it." He's publicly berated U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins over the status of the Northwest Passage. He's even promised to build a deepwater dock on northern Baffin Island and ice-strengthened patrol vessels for the Canadian Navy. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/selling-out-sovereignty-orbit-and-north URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/selling-out-sovereignty-orbit-and-north From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 22 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: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Time for us to say "No More Oil for War" to the US Message-ID: <20080122211722.32733.qmail@resist.ca> TIME FOR US TO SAY 'NO MORE OIL FOR WAR' TO US RICARDO ACU?A / ualberta.ca/parkland There are few things we progressive Albertans enjoy more than the opportunity to take a holier-than-thou attitude towards the United States. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/time-us-say-quotno-more-oil-warquot-us URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/time-us-say-quotno-more-oil-warquot-us From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 22 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: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:17:21 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] A different kind of climate politics is needed Message-ID: <20080122211722.32735.qmail@resist.ca> A different kind of climate politics is needed Environment Minister Baird even copied his Washington mentors by holding out to the last minute and then dramatically withdrawing his objections so that the vote could be unanimous. by Ian Angus January 16, 2008 ?We are ending up with something so watered down there was no need for 12,000 people to gather here in Bali to have a watered-down text. We could have done that by email.? ?Dr. Angus Friday, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/different-kind-climate-politics-needed URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/different-kind-climate-politics-needed From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 23 01:17:11 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, 23 Jan 2008 09:17:11 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] It will cost Suncor $200 Million to deal with the fact they literally stink Message-ID: <20080123091712.30886.qmail@resist.ca> Odour problem fix will cost $200M, Suncor says Firebag output to be expanded Reuters; With files from Canwest News Service CALGARY - Suncor Energy Inc. says clearing up odour problems at its Firebag thermal oilsands operations near Fort McMurray will cost about $200 million, but it hopes to complete the work later this year, allowing it to boost output at the site. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/it-will-cost-suncor-200-million-deal-fact-they-literally-stink URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/it-will-cost-suncor-200-million-deal-fact-they-literally-stink From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 23 01:17:11 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, 23 Jan 2008 09:17:11 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Deline says no to further uranium development Message-ID: <20080123091711.30885.qmail@resist.ca> Deline says no to further uranium development Guy Quenneville Northern News Services Published Monday, January 21, 2008 FORT FRANKLIN - The Deline Land Corp. will oppose all future uranium development in its district until outstanding issues having to do with the old Port Radium mine are resolved, the organization announced recently. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/deline-says-no-further-uranium-development URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/deline-says-no-further-uranium-development From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 23 01:17:11 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, 23 Jan 2008 09:17:11 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] McMurray Airport Passenger Numbers Still Growing Message-ID: <20080123091712.30887.qmail@resist.ca> Airport passenger numbers still growing By CHUCK CHIANG Today staff Tuesday January 22, 2008 If the Fort McMurray Airport seems more crowded than ever these days, it?s because that is exactly what?s happening, according to the latest passenger numbers. The airport saw 559,059 passengers either board or get off scheduled commercial flights last year, a record high and 34 per cent higher than 2006?s 415,965 figure. Airport officials said the pace of growth has surprised even them, noting that passenger numbers only reached 106,768 ten years ago. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/mcmurray-airport-passenger-numbers-still-growing URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/mcmurray-airport-passenger-numbers-still-growing From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 23 02:17:10 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: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:17:10 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Feds expand temporary foreign worker pilot project Message-ID: <20080123101710.5653.qmail@resist.ca> January 16, 2008 Feds expand temporary foreign worker pilot project 21 occupations added to expedited labour market opinion program PAID ADVERTISEMENT Custom Handbook The federal government has added 21 occupations to the expedited labour market opinion (E-LMO) pilot project, which makes it faster for employers in British Columbia and Alberta to hire foreign workers. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/feds-expand-temporary-foreign-worker-pilot-project URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/feds-expand-temporary-foreign-worker-pilot-project From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 25 19:17:04 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: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Prince Rupert Harbour development threatens 10, 000 years of Coast Tsimshian history and thousands of human remains Message-ID: <20080126031704.3754.qmail@resist.ca> Prince Rupert Harbour development threatens 10,000 years of Coast Tsimshian history and thousands of human remains PRINCE RUPERT (January 24, 2008) - The Allied Tribes of the Coast Tsimshian struggle to protect the 10,000 years of history and thousands of human remains that are threatened by development around the Prince Rupert Harbour, says the Honourable Iona Campagnolo. Campagnolo, the former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, who moderated a three-day seminar on Prince Rupert Harbour Archaeological [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/prince-rupert-harbour-development-threatens-10000-years-coast-tsimshian-history-and-thousands-human- URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/prince-rupert-harbour-development-threatens-10000-years-coast-tsimshian-history-and-thousands-human- From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 26 18:17:05 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, 27 Jan 2008 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] A licence to pollute dressed up in rhetorical petticoats Message-ID: <20080127021705.16401.qmail@resist.ca> Commentary A licence to pollute dressed up in rhetorical petticoats JEFFREY SIMPSON >From Saturday's Globe and Mail January 26, 2008 at 12:00 AM EST Canada's conventional oil supplies are running down. They are being replaced with oil from Alberta's tar sands. Each barrel of tar-sands oil produces two to three times more greenhouse-gas emissions than a barrel of conventional oil. The result is obvious: Greenhouse-gas emissions from Alberta oil have been rising. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/licence-pollute-dressed-rhetorical-petticoats URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/licence-pollute-dressed-rhetorical-petticoats From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 26 18:17:05 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, 27 Jan 2008 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Time has come to defend environment Message-ID: <20080127021705.16402.qmail@resist.ca> Time has come to defend environment Posted 1 day ago Sir: Are Canadians going to stand idly by while the American czars of the Alberta Oil Sands and our politicians play Russian Roulette with their health and their future? Will Vice-President Dick Cheney and the Americans continue to buy Canada's super dirty oil in desperation? Will the horrendous environmental destruction wreaked by the Alberta Tar Sands Projects and their colossal impact on climate change qualify as Canada's "Crime Against Humanity?" [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/time-has-come-defend-environment URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/time-has-come-defend-environment From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 26 18:17:05 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, 27 Jan 2008 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Oil Exec Explains the Hunt for Unconventional Oil in Lower 48 Message-ID: <20080127021705.16403.qmail@resist.ca> Five questions with George Stapleton Looking for oil where others don't Jan. 24, 2008, 10:50PM Moneymakers Brett Clanton Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle It's not Saudi Arabia. But there is oil in Kansas. In Montana and Missouri, too. In fact, the lower 48 U.S. states contain enough heavy crude oil deposits to power the nation's economy for several years. But they've been largely overlooked in favor of much bigger heavy oil deposits in Canada's oil sands and elsewhere. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-exec-explains-hunt-unconventional-oil-lower-48 URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/oil-exec-explains-hunt-unconventional-oil-lower-48 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 26 19:17:19 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, 27 Jan 2008 03:17:19 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "Re-learning" what we've forgotten Message-ID: <20080127031719.6803.qmail@resist.ca> by Chris Maser Culture Change (January 06 2008) Editor's note: This is Chris Maser's Part Three of his series for Culture Change. I ate this one up, because ever since I read a 1987 article in Discover magazine by Jared Diamond, about hunter-gatherers' working only a few hours a day a few days a week, I've been aware that our modern way of life is not what it's cracked up to be. In Maser's article there is solid anthropological insight applicable to our current challenge as a dysfunctional society facing extinction. In his eighteen [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotrelearningquot-what-we039ve-forgotten URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotrelearningquot-what-we039ve-forgotten From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 28 11:17:04 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, 28 Jan 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Energy hogs rule Message-ID: <20080128191704.30023.qmail@resist.ca> Energy hogs rule Elites love to pig out on energy. Dateline: Monday, January 21, 2008 "We use 30 percent of all the energy... That isn't bad; that is good. That means we are the richest, strongest people in the world and that we have the highest standard of living in the world. That is why we need so much energy, and may it always be that way." ? US president Richard Nixon, November 1973 Things have changed since Nixon proudly proclaimed America the world's biggest energy guzzler. Or have they? [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/energy-hogs-rule URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/energy-hogs-rule From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 28 11:17:04 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, 28 Jan 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Green groups rally against tar sands development Message-ID: <20080128191704.30024.qmail@resist.ca> Green groups rally against oil sands development ROBERT MATAS >From Monday's Globe and Mail January 28, 2008 at 5:09 AM EST VANCOUVER ? An environmental group that successfully shifted the buying power of Victoria's Secret, Home Depot and Staples in a campaign to protect British Columbia's old-growth forests has now turned its attention to Alberta's northern oil industry. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/green-groups-rally-against-tar-sands-development URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/green-groups-rally-against-tar-sands-development From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 28 11:17:04 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, 28 Jan 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Climate Neros fiddle while Rome burns Message-ID: <20080128191705.30025.qmail@resist.ca> Climate Neros fiddle while Rome burns Jan 28, 2008 04:30 AM Tyler Hamilton Energy Reporter Governments and industry love to talk about the things they plan to do, perhaps to detract attention away from what they haven't done or aren't doing. How many radio or television debates have shown an environmentalist pointing out the devastating effects of oil sands and power production in Alberta, only to have industry officials tout concepts like "clean coal" or "carbon capture and sequestration" ? as if the solution is here and the problem is being overcome as they speak? [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/climate-neros-fiddle-while-rome-burns URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/climate-neros-fiddle-while-rome-burns From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 28 11:17:04 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, 28 Jan 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] The Globe and Mail does Tar Sands for a week Message-ID: <20080128191705.30027.qmail@resist.ca> The Globe and Mail does Tar Sands for a week Dru Oja Jay-- The Dominion [http://dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/dru/1641][1] (blog) Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The first of the Globe and Mail's week-long series on the tar, I mean, oil sands has at least one interesting insight, though it'll be interesting to keep track of all the things that they don't mention. [read more][2] [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/dru/1641 (http://dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/dru/1641) [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/globe-and-mail-does-tar-sands-week URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/globe-and-mail-does-tar-sands-week From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 28 12:17:18 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, 28 Jan 2008 20:17:18 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] "The kinder, gentler energy superpower" Message-ID: <20080128201718.12961.qmail@resist.ca> While a few small nuggets of things are coming through in the Globe's series on the tar sands, the articles are not only omitting a lot of important facts, they are distorting others. When the articles talk about "Albertan" opinions on the tar sands, they omit/distort the fact that the province is really split into north and south-- and that a majority of those as far north as Edmonton, let alone south like in Medicine Hat, Calgary and Lethbridge, have never actually seen the tar sands mines (or in-situ operations). [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotthe-kinder-gentler-energy-superpowerquot URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotthe-kinder-gentler-energy-superpowerquot From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 30 14:17:05 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: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Gnostic insights illuminate Alberta Tar Sands prosperity as an apparent Manipulative Extraterrestrial Virtual Reality illusion Message-ID: <20080130221705.3617.qmail@resist.ca> Gnostic insights illuminate Alberta Tar Sands prosperity as an apparent Manipulative Extraterrestrial Virtual Reality illusion by Peter Tremblay [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/gnostic-insights-illuminate-alberta-tar-sands-prosperity-apparent-manipulative-extraterrestrial-virt URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/gnostic-insights-illuminate-alberta-tar-sands-prosperity-apparent-manipulative-extraterrestrial-virt From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 30 14:17:05 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: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Suncor announces $20.6 billion tar pit expansion Message-ID: <20080130221705.3616.qmail@resist.ca> Suncor announces $20.6 billion oil sands expansion Canwest News Service Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 OTTAWA - Oilsands producer Suncor Energy has approved a $20.6-billion expansion to boost crude oil production by 200,000 barrels at its facility north of Fort McMurray, Alta. The company said its board had approved the expenditure as part of its goal to increase output to 550,000 barrels per day in 2012. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/suncor-announces-206-billion-tar-pit-expansion URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/suncor-announces-206-billion-tar-pit-expansion From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 30 16:17:16 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, 31 Jan 2008 00:17:16 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Life on the cold side of the country's hottest economy Message-ID: <20080131001716.4068.qmail@resist.ca> Life on the cold side of the country's hottest economy The oil sands dominate Alberta's wealth and growth, but not all parts of the province are taking part ? including, surprisingly, the conventional oil industry GORDON PITTS >From Wednesday's Globe and Mail January 30, 2008 at 12:00 AM EST In the rolling farmland around Derwent, Alta., the fields are littered with what look like oversized pop cans. These stubby storage tanks contain heavy oil that has been pumped from the ground and is waiting to be trucked away ? much of it to the big Husky Oil upgrader in Lloydminster. [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/life-cold-side-country039s-hottest-economy URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/life-cold-side-country039s-hottest-economy From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 30 16:17:16 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, 31 Jan 2008 00:17:16 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Slavery and Fossil Fuels Message-ID: <20080131001717.4069.qmail@resist.ca> Slavery and Fossil Fuels Charles Justice The nineteenth century global economy was a like a small scale version of today's global economy. Trade in slaves, sugar, coffee, tobacco, and cotton were the drivers of global economic growth. But the growing trade in the above mentioned non-human commodities was first made possible by slave labour in plantations in the tropics and the American South. In our modern global economy, cheap fossil fuels have taken the place of slaves. Industrial farming, convenient travel by automobile, and the transportation of [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/slavery-and-fossil-fuels URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/slavery-and-fossil-fuels From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 31 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: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [Ost-news] Eastern Canada Vulnerable to Oil Shortages Message-ID: <20080131201705.7312.qmail@resist.ca> Eastern Canada Vulnerable to Oil Shortages New Report Calls for Canada to Set Up Strategic Petroleum Reserves EDMONTON ?Canada is currently the most vulnerable country in the industrial world to short-term oil supply crises, and we need to establish strategic petroleum reserves to remedy the problem. This is the key finding of a report released today by Alberta?s Parkland Institute in conjunction with the Polaris Institute. Freezing in the Dark: Why Canada Needs Strategic Petroleum Reserves points out [read more][1] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/eastern-canada-vulnerable-oil-shortages URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/eastern-canada-vulnerable-oil-shortages