Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

Climate Change / Emissions

Climate Change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon. 40% of Canada’s emissions already come from Alberta alone, not counting the entire tar sands infrastructure across North America nor counting the projected increase in tar sands production or the infrastructure built across the continent to accommodate such increases in production. Factor it all in and you get the picture. You haven’t even burned the petrol yet.

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Saying no to tar sands pipelines

Saying no to oil sands pipelines

Rex Weyler says the pipeline expansion will "change the entire channel".
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By Lindsay O’Donnell, August 30, 2011

The marchers chanted "No tar sands, no pipeline".

Koch Bros will be big winners if Keystone sludge-oil pipeline is approved

Sunday, September 04, 2011
Koch Bros will be big winners if Keystone sludge-oil pipeline is approved
by Gaius Publius on 9/04/2011
America Blog

Well, there's a surprise. Obama's worst enemy, and the climate's as well, the ever-famous Koch Brothers and Koch Industries, are positioned to be big winners if (when) the Keystone Tar Sands pipeline is approved.

Trailbreaker Pipeline through Montréal back on?

Pipeline plan back on tap: opponents

By MICHELLE LALONDE,
The Gazette,
August 26, 2011

Enbridge seeks transit to Maine

Enbridge Pipelines Inc. is quietly trying to make an end run around a proper
assessment of its controversial Trailbreaker project to pipe tarsands oil across Canada to Montreal and then on to the United States, according to three Canadian and two U.S. environmental groups.

Enbridge Trailbreaker Project

The groups are filing a complaint with the National Energy Board on Friday

A Tar Sands Partnership Agreement in the Making?

Macdonald Stainsby | August 1st 2011

Campaigns against tar sands production have grown rapidly over the last four years. From the relative obscurity in Alberta to an international lightning rod for people trying to address all manner of concerns from indigenous and community self-determination to peak oil and climate change – criticisms of the largest industrial project in human history have gained a major voice. The voices are certainly not homogenous, but a large contingent of these voices call for a shut down of tar sands production and a move away from fossil fuels – if not an outright move away from market-led growth of any sort. But, in the language of the environmental elite, what are the “decision makers” preparing to do with all this anti-tar sands resistance?

Into the Muskeg Swamps of Northern Alberta

A Brief Ideological History of the Tar Sands

Earth First Journal

By Nickle

"This is not oil drilling. It's not even mining. It is
terrestrial skinning. Vast, vivid landscapes are being
gutted, left monochromatic gray." --NAOMI KLEIN

Canadian government accused of 'unprecedented' tar sands lobbying

Friends of the Earth Europe claims ministers have attempted to undermine European fuel legislation that would affect exports

Terry Macalister
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 August 2011

The Canadian government has been accused of an "unprecedented" lobbying effort involving 110 meetings in less than two years in Britain and Europe in a bid to derail new fuel legislation that could hit exports from its tar sands.

CNRL resumes production, price of crude drops

Resumption at CNRL project to lower prices for oil sands crude
nathan vanderklippe
CALGARY— From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Aug. 04, 2011 6:26AM EDT

The price of crude is likely to decline for a number of oil sands companies as Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNQ-T35.25-0.94-2.60%)brings back to life its fire-damaged Horizon project.

Athabasca eyes higher conventional budget

Following in the footsteps of Suncor, major players in tar sands production are now getting into conventional oil and gas elsewhere.

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Athabasca eyes higher conventional budget

By Dan Healing, Calgary Herald
August 4, 2011

CALGARY — Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. said Thursday it is considering increasing its budget to explore on its conventional Deep Basin oil and gas assets for the second time this year.

U.S. Oil Giants Poised to Gain on Keystone Pipeline

By Amy Harder
Updated: August 5, 2011

Three major American oil companies are poised to gain big if the Obama administration green-lights a controversial pipeline that would send 700,000 barrels of oil a day from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Texas.

Unist’hot’en Camp II

Unist’hot’en Camp II
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August 12 – 15, 2011 in Wet’suwet’en Territory *

[ updates will be posted here: http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com
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Wet’suwet’en seeks to operate a second camp building further resistance
to the large influx of industrial activities in our Indigenous Lands and
Waters, often with no consent or consultation, or consultation as a
final stage of development. The major focus of this camp is largely
educational and hopefully strategic. Last year the major focus was Tar
Sands and Pipelines, and training for current and future activists to
operate as a larger body to resist Tar Sands and affiliated
infrastructure and systemic support of Tar Sands expansion.