Economics drive tar sands operations. Record highs in oil prices, though still fluctuating, will make tar sand oil ‘economical’ (read: profitable) well into the future. Government subsidies to this environmentally disastrous process remain in place from a time when the federal government was sponsoring research into the possibility of recovering this oil. Stock prices of tar sands developers grow the more conventional oil is scarce.
Earth Day rallies target politicians
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/206092
Apr 23, 2007 04:30 AM
Earth Day celebrations across the country yesterday turned the heat on politicians as environmentalists await the launch of a made-in-Canada global warming plan.
In Toronto, hundreds of people, carrying signs with slogans like "Earth to Harper – get your head out of the tar sands," paraded in the streets.
Pipeline oil spill raises questions among residents
Angela Hall, The Leader-Post
Published: Saturday, April 21, 2007
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/business_agriculture/story.h...
Even before an oil spill was detected near Glenavon last weekend, some area residents had questions about the underground pipelines that snake through their land.
Days before the spill from an Enbridge line on Sunday, the newly formed Saskatchewan Association of Pipeline Landowners had already scheduled Wednesday's meeting in Glenavon.
THE ONGOING CARBON AGE
BY DANIEL CASEY
APRIL 20, 2007
http://maisonneuve.org/index.php?&page_id=12&article_id=2714
Growing for black gold
http://www.canadianminingjournal.com/issues/ISarticle.asp?id=185949&stor...
By: Marilyn Scales
Price tag for all oil sands projects nears $100 billion
Canada's oil sands are the world's largest single petroleum resource, nearly 1.7 trillion barrels. Most of this country's recoverable reserves (175 billion out of 180 billion bbl) are found in the Athabasca oil sands.
Keystone pipeline will suck jobs, oil from Canada, AFL warns
Shaun Polczer, CanWest News Service; Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=9a3a1fcc-9278-40b9-9032...
April 17, 2007
CALGARY - The head of the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) says TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone pipeline to the U.S. is a "job killer" that needs to be stopped.
Unchecked global warming would spawn unparalleled depression, Suzuki warns
http://www.brooksbulletin.com/news/national_news.asp?itemid=62139
DENNIS BUECKERT
Friday, April 20, 2007
OTTAWA (CP) - David Suzuki says Canadians are ready to pay for fighting climate change so long as it's fair.
After a cross-country tour in which he heard from thousands of people in more than 40 cities, the veteran broadcaster and author says Canadians are ready for a carbon tax that would penalize wasteful use of energy and reward efficiency.
FYI for the non-Canadian located reader: The National Post is Canada's ultra right wing newspaper.
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Sands are shifting for oil supply
Expert says we should be ready for big jump in price
Diane Francis, Financial Post
Published: Saturday, April 21, 2007
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=b9a3434b-...
The world continues to run rapidly out of oil and natural gas, which points to dramatically higher prices in a handful of years.
Russia Plans World's Longest Tunnel, a Link to Alaska
By Yuriy Humber and Bradley Cook
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a5OJJzlp0xwM&refer=c...
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Russia plans to build the world's longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia.
The approval of the port in Gitimaat ["Kitimat"] needs to be rescinded. This port is completely useless if there is a shipping moratorium, and with a port approval it is politically much harder to imagine both the maintenance of the shipping ban (building a port is for use) and to prevent the construction of the Enbridge Gateway Pipeline.
"To hell with Al Gore’s inconvenient truths; to purgatory with quisling scientists and their voluminous reports stating that Alberta’s tar sands—whether the oil there is blasted by natural gas, exploded by nukes, or even extracted in some fashion palatable to those wearing hemp or burlap—are an environmental disaster zone that, if exploited, will (by themselves) render null and void Canada’s commitment to Kyoto. Never mind. On that midsummer night, Harper, in search of foreign direct investment, was flush with energy, industry, and economic-growth models.
