Tar Sands 101
The Tar Sands "Gigaproject" is the largest industrial project in human history and likely also the most destructive. The tar sands mining procedure releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as regular oil production and is slated to become the single largest industrial contributor in North America to Climate Change.
The tar sands are already slated to be the cause of up to the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet behind the Amazon Rainforest Basin. Currently approved projects will see 3 million barrels of tar sands mock crude produced daily by 2018; for each barrel of oil up to as high as five barrels of water are used.
Human health in many communities has seriously taken a turn for the worse with many causes alleged to be from tar sands production. Tar sands production has led to many serious social issues throughout Alberta, from housing crises to the vast expansion of temporary foreign worker programs that racialize and exploit so-called non-citizens. Infrastructure from pipelines to refineries to super tanker oil traffic on the seas crosses the continent in all directions to allthree major oceans and the Gulf of Mexico.
The mock oil produced primarily is consumed in the United States and helps to subsidize continued wars of aggression against other oil producing nations such as Iraq, Venezuela and Iran.
To understand the tar sands in more depth, continue to our Tar Sands 101 reading list
Keystone Pipeline Bad For Canada, Lawyer Says
Keystone Pipeline Bad For Canada, Lawyer Says
Jun, 21 2007 - 2:30 PM
http://www.770chqr.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428436912&rem=68315&red=...
CALGARY/AM770CHQR - The lawyer representing Canada's largest energy workers union has told Calgary hearings on a massive pipeline project, it's a bad deal for Canada and Canadians.
The Keystone Pipeline would export half a million barrells per day of raw bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to the U.S.
South Dakota: Keystone Pipeline Hearings Begin Monday
Keystone Pipeline Hearings Begin Monday
http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=0,58147
06/22/2007
Plans to build a 220 mile underground oil pipeline in eastern South Dakota have unearthed plenty of questions from landowners affected by the project. They'll have a chance to get some answers during a series of public meetings next week.
Globe and Mail Blogger on China in the Tar Sands
Chinese dragons sniff around the oilpatch
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070621.WBwenergyblo...
Norval Scott, 21/06/07 at 1:21 PM EDT
Blog from Globe and Mail Report on Business
Inside Energy is on the road, finding out what there is to see and do in Edmonton at the 3rd Canada-China Economic Co-operation conference, which is being billed this time around as "Energy and beyond."
Chinese National Petroleum Corp. Admits to Owning leases in Tar Sands
China leases a bit of Alberta's oil patch
State-owned CNPC buys rights to develop oil sands properties
NORVAL SCOTT
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070622.RCNPC22/TPStor...
June 22, 2007
EDMONTON -- In a possible first step toward becoming a producer of Canadian crude, the Chinese National Petroleum Corp., China's largest oil company, revealed yesterday that it has acquired some land in Alberta, with the intention to eventually develop an oil sands project if possible.
Qatar/ Gulf Times on the Tar Sands going International
Canada oil sands lure global majors
Published: Thursday, 21 June, 2007, 01:45 AM Doha Time
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=156432...
FORT MCMURRAY, Canada: With world oil prices hovering at near nine-month highs and global energy firms flush with cash, analysts are predicting that control of Canada’s booming oil sands sector could soon fall into foreign hands.
Foreign bids worth tens of billions dollars are expected in the coming years as global oil companies look for new opportunities, say analysts.
Woodland Cree Challenges Shell Tar Sands Expansion--Seeks to Prevent Another Ft. McMurray Disaster
Woodland Cree First Nation
Jun 22, 2007
http://www.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=745361
Woodland Cree First Nation Challenges Shell Oil Sands Expansion-Seeks to Prevent Another Ft. McMurray Disaster
PEACE RIVER, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - June 22, 2007) - On June 25, 2007, the Woodland Cree First Nation ("WCFN") will file an intervention with the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board ("EUB") with regard to Shell Canada's Carmon Creek Oil Sands project located near Peace River, Alberta.
The Pentagon Vs. Peak Oil
How Wars of the Future May Be Fought ...
Just to Run the Machines That Fight Them
by Michael T Klare
WorkingForChange (June 14 2007)
Sixteen gallons of oil. That's how much the average American soldier in
Iraq and Afghanistan consumes on a daily basis - either directly,
through the use of Humvees, tanks, trucks, and helicopters, or
indirectly, by calling in air strikes. Multiply this figure by 162,000
soldiers in Iraq, 24,000 in Afghanistan, and 30,000 in the surrounding
region (including sailors aboard US warships in the Persian Gulf) and
Nuclear energy endorsement may be linked to tar sands and climate change pressure
Nuclear energy endorsement may be linked to tar sands and climate change pressure
Unresolved questions remain about environmental implications and costs.
http://www.harperindex.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=0057
Natural resources minister Gary Lunn - a longtime nuclear advocate - and his boss, Stephen HarperOttawa, June 18, 2007 — Why is the minority Conservative government proceeding on nuclear energy at a time when it is fighting to regain public support after a difficult spring?
Texas firm plans America's first new oil refinery in over 30 years
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
June 14, 2007 Thursday 5:26 PM GMT
SECTION: BUSINESS NEWS
Texas firm plans nation's first new oil refinery in over 30 years
By DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press Writer
ELK POINT S.D.
Thousands of acres of farmland in the southeastern tip of South Dakota could become
home to the nation's first new oil refinery since 1976.
Hyperion Resources Inc., a privately held Dallas-based energy company, is
considering Elk Point and several other Midwest sites for the $8 billion refinery,
The Pew works with Nuclear: "industry and environmental cooperation"
This has to stop! The "Pew Charitable Trusts" are NOT the allies of the earth. The Tar Pits are expanding, making MAJOR amounts of money and are doing so through the back door route of funding the Pew with money made from the Tar Pits. If this "trust" gives an organization you care about money, get them out. They are soaked in oil, they are from the Pew Family, who run Sunoco, who refine tar sand guck and more importantly INVENTED the process.
