Climate Change / Emissions

Johann Hari: How much proof do the global warming deniers need?

Everything the climate scientists said would happen - with their pesky graphs and studies and computers - is coming to pass. This is proving the hottest year ever

Friday, 27 August 2010

Whatever It Takes:
Protecting the Tar Sands, Protecting Capitalism
Ryan Katz-Rosene

Something is rotten in the province of Alberta! And it's not just the tar sands. It's the way political and corporate elites do whatever it takes to extinguish potential threats to the bituminous megaproject. The attempt to protect the tar sands from criticism can be framed as a part of a broader effort to protect the ‘rights’ of private interests to profit from bitumen production.

September 27, 1962
Tar Sand Project Approval Starts New Era For Canadian Oil

BY: CARL O. NICKLE, Publisher of the Daily Oil Bulletin & Oil In Canada

In recommending approval of the application of GREAT CANADIAN OIL SANDS LIMITED for the first commercialscale development of Alberta's famed Athabaska Tar Sands, the Alberta Oil & Gas Conservation Board has made a vital and far reaching decision.

Pilot makes comment to passengers about tar sands.

American Airlines says it is looking into allegations against one of its pilots.

Bradley Everett was shocked with comments the pilot made on his American Airlines flight.

Updated: Thu Aug. 26 2010
ctv calgary

A Calgary couple is outraged after a comment an American Airlines pilot allegedly made over the intercom when they landed in Calgary.

Huffington Post
Posted: August 25, 2010 03:42 PM
Patrick McCully

Kyoto's Carbon Offsetting Moves from Tragedy to Farce

The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has long been known to be a honey pot of carbon credit income for cheating project developers. But a recent investigation commissioned by German NGO CDMWatch shows that the problem is even worse than many critics had feared.

British oil company's Arctic find fuels hope of huge new reserves
By Daily Mail Reporter

25th August 2010

The Arctic is set to become the world's last dash for oil after a British energy company reported a discovery off the coast of Greenland.

Cairn Energy said it had found oil and gas bearing sands in one of its exploration wells, indicting there was an ‘active hydrocarbon system’ there.

The Edinburgh-based company is drilling in a basin the size of the North Sea, meaning the find is potentially of enormous significance.

Canada Insists Oil-Rich Tar Sands Are Sustainable
By Leon Kaye | August 25th, 2010
Triple Pundit

Some of Canada’s most stunning natural beauty is in the prosperous province of Alberta. Walk through downtown Calgary and you get the vibe that it is the true economic center of Canada. Banff and Jasper National Parks boast incredible scenery and awe-inspiring wildlife. About 275 miles and a nine-hour drive away, the landscape changes, and displays the driver behind Alberta’s economic success.

Of the three supposed most incorrect statements listed here in this Tait article, I would assume that since the 3rd one is word for word lifted off of the front page of OilSandsTruth.org it deserves response.

However, since it is clearly designed to mock the tar sands critics, and to do so with the most far reaching split hairs, let us take up the first two points she critiques:

Peak oil is the villain governments need

Using the threat of a high oil prices is a sell the public will buy into – unlike intangible arguments over climate change

o Graham Wayne
o guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 11 August 2010

Oilsands proposal draws protest
Joslyn North mine. Total E&P makes green promises

By MIKE DE SOUZA, Postmedia News August 24, 2010

A battle is brewing over a proposed oilsands project by a French-based company that has drawn more than two dozen opponents from Canada, the U.S. and France at today's deadline for submissions to a joint federal-provincial environmental review panel.