Forests lose more trees and habitat to pipeline “right of way” cuts and tar pit building than to clearcuts. With minor variation, pipelines go the direct route. Through the strip mining of the land that contains tarsand petroleum and through pipeline construction to accomodate, only the Amazon Basin in Brazil would see larger rates of deforestation than the Boreal forest cover surrendered to the tarsands. Roads often accompany pipelines, as do various other developments. Hundreds of thousands of miles of forests, all combined, have been lost to infrastructure built to accommodate tarsands operations. Now the industry wants to build two approximately 1200 km long Mackenzie and Gateway pipelines as well as 2700 km's from Alaska's North Slope to accomodate tarsand oil production.
Finding the right balance is tough...
http://www.thenorthernview.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=142&cat=48&id...
By - Brooke Ward
Sep 05 2007
Many of us here in the Northwest seem to know what we want: economic development and sustainability. And we also know what we don’t want: destruction of natural resources. Unfortunately, the Provincial Government seems convinced that we can’t have one without the other.
Canada's Top 40
http://www.canadianminingjournal.com/issues/ISarticle.asp?id=189929&stor...
By: Marilyn Scales
Oil sands miner Suncor leads pack
Any company with annual revenues of over $7.4 billion is a contender for the top spot on many lists. In the case of the largest 40 Canadian mining companies, the honour goes to Suncor Energy thanks to its oil sands income alone. The rising price of oil continues to bolster Suncor's bottom line. Last year the company ranked eighth on our list with almost $4.0 billion in revenue from its oil sands operations.
NEWS RELEASE 30/8/07
http://www.carc.org/pipeline_panel.php
CARC tells Pipeline Developers
“Beef Up Assessment of Pipeline Impacts”
Tar sand mining growing at huge environmental cost
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3079
Posted: 23 Aug 2007
Canadian tar sands deposits hold an estimated 1.7 trillion barrels of crude oil, second in the world only to Saudi Arabia, but the devastating environmental impact of mining them far exceeds that of conventional oil, says new research to be published next month (September 2007).
Mackenzie pipeline critics using wrong numbers: Imperial
Last Updated: Friday, August 31, 2007 | 10:39 AM CT
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/08/31/jrp-numbers.html
Critics of the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline have inflated some numbers related to the pipeline's impact on future development, an official with Imperial Oil told the joint review panel on Thursday.
Feds praise Alaska pipeline process
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8R1QE381.htm
By STEVE QUINN
JUNEAU, Alaska // The Associated Press August 15, 2007
Federal regulators on Wednesday praised Alaska's renewed attempts to get a natural gas pipeline built, a sharp contrast to a report earlier this year that said the process had "slipped considerably."
Updating the book on global warming
by George Monbiot
Here is a portion of George Monbiot's speech at the Camp for Climate
Change in London August 18 2007 {1}. He has been studying and writing
about global warming for over twenty years and is the Author of Heat
(South End Press, 2007) which is about climate change and what needs to
be done about it. He explains that because of recent scientific
discoveries the book needs an extreme update.
Indymedia.org.uk (August 31 2007)
I'm going to start with some bad news, and the bad news is this. Two
Proposed crude oil pipeline threatens land, wastes energy
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=176522§ion=Opinion&for...
By Janie Capp,
Published Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Regarding the proposed 1,830-mile, 30-inch crude oil pipeline coming from Alberta, Canada, across North Dakota, to Illinois and possibly farther.
Factoring Sustainability Into Alberta's Tar Sands Project
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007166.html
Mindy Lubber
August 24, 2007 11:26 AM
There's much talk these days of capitalism and sustainability being increasingly interrelated -- that environmental and social impacts need to be included along with quarterly sales projections in corporate strategies and the financial bottom line. But why is this still more a concept than a reality, especially when it comes to a sustainability crisis like global warming?
Green Groups Seek Freeze on Canada Arctic Pipelines
http://www.cnbc.com/id/20516662
30 Aug 2007 | 03:33 PM ET
Regulators should slap a moratorium on pipelines in Canada's North because governments and oil companies have not planned for long-term environmental impacts, a green-group representative said Thursday.
Several environmental and social activists began submissions Thursday to the regulatory panel probing the C$16.2 billion ($15.3 billion) Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline on the proposed development's cumulative effects.
