The Tar Sands come to Kitimat
Charles Campbell//Mar 22, 2007
http://www.dogwoodinitiative.org/bulletins/tarsandstokitimat
Indigenous
Indigenous
Indigenous nations have protected the earth on their territories for thousands of years. With the government of Canada ignoring their sovereignty, nations not only see massive theft of resources that could help alleviate social problems, but their exacerbation through their further alienation from their own lands, often accompanying being overrun by development and southern workers, while having no self-determination during this process. In the south of Canada industrial farming displaced many nations with often genocidal results. In the north, a modern equivalent of that fate is only just beginning, wrought on by industrial oil and gas drilling schemes (among many industrial plans) that are condemning entire societies, languages and cultures to a precarious future, becoming minorities in their lands for the first time.
Indigenous nations have protected the earth on their territories for thousands of years. With the government of Canada ignoring their sovereignty, nations not only see massive theft of resources that could help alleviate social problems, but their exacerbation through their further alienation from their own lands, often accompanying being overrun by development and southern workers, while having no self-determination during this process. In the south of Canada industrial farming displaced many nations with often genocidal results. In the north, a modern equivalent of that fate is only just beginning, wrought on by industrial oil and gas drilling schemes (among many industrial plans) that are condemning entire societies, languages and cultures to a precarious future, becoming minorities in their lands for the first time.
The Tar Sands come to Kitimat
National Post: MGP Defeated, Alaskan Over-the-Top Pipeline an "optimistic scenario".
Clip:
"If the project in its current form is indeed on its last legs, it's nothing to be proud of. It would be one of the first energy megaprojects in Canada to fold at such an advanced stage due to cost increases, aboriginal sabotage and federal red tape.
Somba Ke: The Money Place
Somba Ke: The Money Place
by Macdonald Stainsby
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/stainsby031206.html
MRZine December 03/2006
Not many discuss contemporary geopolitics in a way that brings together both the Manhattan Project of the 1940s and today's global Risk-like die rolls for energy resources, but the producers of the documentary Somba Ke: The Money Place have made a film that does precisely that.
Telling the truth about Tar Sands cancers? Expect to fight...
The doctor who does not speak of treating both the symptom and the cause of disease is one who sees your lung cancer and does not tell you to quit smoking, or who offers you a beer while explaining you have liver failure.
Why Climate Change issues won't be solved by Politicians or Capitalism
Why Climate Change issues won't be solved by Politicians or Capitalism
Liberals and Conservatives demonstrate hypocrisy on redressing Global Warming
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/03/27/01446.html
Compiled by Super Canuck
Fort Chip Nations Quit Government "Oilsands Watchdog Group"
First Nation pulls out of oilsands watchdog group
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 | 10:46 AM MT
CBC News
The largest First Nations community in the Fort McMurray area has walked away from an organization set up to protect the environment from too much oilsands development.
Government and industry are not taking protection of the environment seriously, said Sherwin Sheh, who speaks for the Mikisew Cree of Fort Chipewyan.
The First Nation is following the lead of the Athabasca Chipewyan and pulling out of the Cumulative Environmental Management Association.
Ted Stevens Trying to Streamline Alaska Highway Pipeline
This pipeline will also, along with the Mackenzie Gas Project, be used at least in large part to feed the energy needs of the tarsands in Alberta. To state that since the energy would be consumed in the US means it really isn't shipping out American gas to non-American sources would be a direct admission of the irrational yet oil-dependant need to go after the tarsands, would it not?
That could go bad in a lot of ways. Let's just talk about something else, like sending the gas to the lower 48. We could believe them.
But that ignores the bidders public, "investor read here" plans:
Will an American Surge Win the War for Oil?
Will an American Surge Win the War for Oil?
by Macdonald Stainsby
March 25, 2007
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=102&ItemID=12415
Deh Cho wary of tar sands, demand action
N.W.T. fears toll from oilsands development
http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/Local%20News/295973.html
By RENATO GANDIA
staff// Fort McMurray Today
Friday March 23, 2007
Destruction of the Mackenzie River watershed, hundreds of dead adults and sick babies in the Deh Cho First Nation. That’s the scenario a Northwest Territories chief is predicting if oilsands development is not slowed.
Grand Chief Herb Norwegian wants immediate action from the Alberta and N.W.T. governments to protect the quality and quantity of water that flows downstream from the oilsands.
Mackenzie Gas Project to cost $16.2B: Imperial Oil
A few quick points.
With the recent holes in all of the so-called "action plans" on climate
change so big you could drive one of the tarsand trucks carrying 400
tonnes of earth through it, the updating of projected costs here is a
giant challenge-- a gauntlet drop, if you will-- at the feet of the
Federal government.
The MGP is now well known to be, despite being the largest industrial
project in settler Canada's history at the time it was first conceived,
just a mere inflow into the vast energy needs of the tarsands. As
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