Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

Land

Land, regardless of whether covered by forests, tundra or grasslands, is threatened by mining operations such as Alberta’s vast open tar pit operations, or through incredible networks of “right of way” cuts for pipelines that extend in the hundreds of thousands of miles, all told, and across the continent in four directions and to three oceans—either through feeding the tarsand operations with fossil fuel energy or through feeding energy markets from tarsand operations after production. In the case of pipeline right of ways, they can blast directly through mountains or be buried in permafrost if needed, to get the energy to move.

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Canadian Crude: Impact Felt 1,200 Miles Away

Canadian Crude: Impact Felt 1,200 Miles Away
- 11/12/2007

Canada produces two and a half million barrels of oil a day and production is expected to double over the next decade. So, energy companies are looking for ways to get a newly developed oil from Canada to refineries in North America. One option is TransCanada's proposed Keystone Pipeline that would run through South Dakota and it all would start in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

It's about as far north as any paved road in Alberta goes. Fort McMurray sits in the Athabasca River valley 275 miles north of Edmonton.

Fort McMurray of the Middle East

SAUDI ARABIA'S NEW MIGHT: ENERGY
Fort McMurray of the Middle East
As Saudi Arabia tries to extend its oil reach, it faces the same hurdles as Alberta

DAVID EBNER

November 13, 2007

RABIGH, SAUDI ARABIA -- It's 35 C and humid on the shore of the Rea Sea north of Jeddah as a sprawling industrial facility and construction cranes emerge through the bright haze in the near distance.

For Saudi Arabia, a crude oil producer and refiner, the site is a first step into a future of doing more with the black gold that lies in vast quantities beneath the desert kingdom.

Our Drinkable Water Supply is Vanishing

Thanks to global warming, pollution, population growth, and
privatization, we are teetering on the edge of a global crisis.

by Tara Lohan

AlterNet (October 11 2007)

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, the Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
for medicine once said, "Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and
medium. There is no life without water."

We depend on water for survival. It circulates through our bodies and
the land, replenishing nutrients and carrying away waste. It is passed
down like stories over generations - from ice-capped mountains to rivers
to oceans.

Total SA to Increase Strip Mining over In Situ

Total to alter Joslyn plans

NORVAL SCOTT

November 10, 2007

CALGARY -- French energy giant Total SA is re-evaluating strategy at its Joslyn oil sands development, with a view to doing more mining of the resource than previously expected, according to the junior partner in the project.

(Industry PR) Suncor Production Numbers-- Year to Date

Suncor Production Numbers-- Year to Date

CALGARY, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Suncor Energy Inc. reported today that production at its oil sands facility during October averaged approximately 260,000 barrels per day (bpd). Year-to-date oil sands production at the end of October averaged approximately 233,000 bpd. Suncor is targeting average oil sands production of 240,000 to 245,000 bpd in 2007.

Alberta's tar sands to supply South Dakota's oil projects

Alberta's tar sands to supply South Dakota's oil projects
Pipeline, refinery would tap into Canadian crude
Oct 23, 2007 04:30 AM
Dirk Lammers
ASSOCIATED PRESS

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.–As oil hovers around $90 (U.S.) a barrel, the race is on to tap more heavily into the world's second-largest oil reserve, and South Dakota – a major ethanol producer that typically sits on the alternative side of the fuel industry – is finding itself at the crossroads of two major oil projects.

PM takes a trip to Fort McMurray (2 articles)

PM hears frank concerns from locals in closed-door meeting

By CAROL CHRISTIAN
Fort McMurray Today staff
Tuesday November 06, 2007

There were no promises or money from Prime Minister Stephen Harper during his brief visit to Wood Buffalo Monday, and only vague answers about any tangible results of the visit from area MP Brian Jean.
But that didn’t stop some of those business leaders who participated in a roundtable discussion with the PM from calling it a success, especially when it came to raising awareness of issues faced by the region.

Keystone & 2 other international pipeline stories

Analysis: Oil and Gas Pipeline Watch
Nov. 5, 2007 at 6:24 PM
By SIOBHAN DEVINE
UPI Correspondent
China finishes construction of tunnel for Sichuan-Shanghai gas pipeline

On Monday, workers in China’s Hubei province completed construction of a 1,405 meter tunnel connecting the banks of the Yangtze River in Yichang City for a new gas pipeline to supply China’s energy-short east.

Greenpeace Opens Alberta Legislature Sitting with High Flying Protest

Edmonton, Canada — Four Greenpeace activists suspended their bodies 138 feet over the North Saskatchewan River today to hang two 23 x 50 foot banners from the High Level Bridge in Edmonton. The banners depict the areas under current and projected tar sands development with the message "Stop the Tar Sands." They hang in full view of the Alberta legislature, which opened today.

Six steps to “getting” the global ecological crisis

Posted by Prof. Goose on November 4, 2007 - 9:05am
John Feeney, Ph.D. Trained as a psychologist

Some of us who examine and discuss environmental matters are constantly puzzled and frustrated by the seeming inability of elected officials, environmental organizations, and environmental and political writers to “get” the nature of our ecological plight. Could it be they’re simply unaware of the ecological principles which enable one to understand it?