It is falsely assumed that big projects equal lots of jobs and, by extension, labour peace if not outright satisfaction. The size and scope of the tarsands means for incredibly dangerous work conditions-- some fatalities at the plants have already occurred. The products seldom get their "value added" in union-run locations, instead the heavy bitumen can be shipped to many different locations across North America for refining, denying benefits to the union. However, the Union does not represent the "guest worker", now being imported in increasing numbers as legislation is changed to make access easier, the term of exploitation last longer, without any new efforts or pathways to deciding to stay after helping tear up the earth.
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.
The Republican Who Dared Tell the Truth About Oil
Matt Simmons understood the wages of addiction and wasn't afraid to sound warnings, even to George W. Bush.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, Today, TheTyee.ca
"A call to arms may be wrong. We may not even know who the enemy is. And maybe the enemy is us." -- Matt Simmons
Permits revoked for oversized shipments through ID
(AP) – August 25, 2010
LEWISTON, Idaho — A judge on Tuesday revoked special permits allowing a company to truck four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment through a federally protected river corridor, saying the state failed to address public concerns.
Second District Judge John Bradbury ordered the Idaho Transportation Department to review the request from ConocoPhillips again and to take action to ensure the safety and convenience of the public.
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
Exploitation pétrolière de Bemolanga : Un danger inévitable pour la population locale
Vendredi, 20 Août 2010
Midi Madagasikara
How the Tar Sands Threaten Canada's Economic Fate
A short course in Dutch Disease, deindustrialization and the Bitumen Curse.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, 13 Aug 2010, TheTyee.ca
Every week Canada's least favorite Emir, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, earnestly lectures Canadians that the mighty tar sands are a boon to the national economy because "Alberta's engine drives Canada."
Hunger strikers seek money for women’s shelter in Fort McMurray
Victims of domestic violence in the oil-sands boomtown have few places to go, forcing many to return home to their abusers
Josh Wingrove Edmonton— From Monday's Globe and Mail
Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010
When Fort McMurray’s only women’s shelter was built nearly 30 years ago, the city had a population of about 30,000 and oil sands production was in its infancy.
Unfortunately for all of us and not just the venerable Ms Yaffe, this is not in fact, true. The plans of Kinder Morgan, et al to pump more and more tar sands bitumen via a pipeline through the Rocky Mountains and down into Vancouver (Burnaby) to both bolster a Chevron and perhaps a Shell refinery there, while loading up tankers in the Vancouver Burrard Inlet to ship out to places both near (California) and far (Asia) has been touted as "making Gateway redundant". Tar Sands bitumen shipments from the Burrard Inlet is not a victory.
