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.
Syncrude ordered to cut emissions from smelly pond
Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:13 PM EDT143
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&stor...
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Syncrude Canada Ltd has been ordered to clean up a settling pond at its northern Alberta oil sands project after it began emitting ammonia and small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas, Alberta environmental regulators said on Tuesday.
Higher CO{-2} May Imperil Grasslands
Scientists warn of dire consequences for grazing areas
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3461/
by Alan Zarembo
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere might be contributing to the conversion of the world’s grasslands - critical for livestock grazing - into a landscape of useless woody shrubs, according to a study released Monday.
By artificially doubling carbon dioxide levels over enclosed sections of the Colorado prairie, researchers created a dramatic rise in Artemisia frigida, commonly known as fringed sage. 0828 03
Breaks a danger in proposed pipeline
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/08/27/news/opinion/letters/...
Aug 27, 2007 - 05:27:25 CDT
By RAMONA KLEIN
Oriska
Canada wants to build a 1,830-mile, 30-inch crude oil pipeline, pumping 435,000 barrels a day or more, across 218 miles of North Dakota. This directly affects about 600 landowners, neighbors and anybody using water in this part of the state.
Pollution roadblock may derail BP refinery of oilsands crude
Oil giant unable to strip out enough ammonia from wastewater
Joe Carroll, Bloomberg News //Thursday, August 23
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=23b91b...
BP Plc hasn't found a way to reduce water pollution that threatens to scuttle a $3.8 billion Indiana refinery expansion, the second-costliest project of its kind in the U.S.
As labour shortages are going to take a short while to be dealt with through the importation of "guest workers" on top of already getting Newfoundlanders to fly in weekly while energy throughout the province is already stretched to beyond capacity, the pipeline problem is the third de facto part of an existing physics-based moratorium. With all of these shortages and the US Dep't of Energy screaming for quadrupling tar sands bitumen production, our strategy to block new pipeline construction at the least slows down the entire project.
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Oilsands face pipeline space shortage
Tar sand mining growing at huge environmental cost
Posted: 23 Aug 2007
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3079
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).
Bob White, Emerado, N.D., letter: Pipeline, oil-sands oil not very good deal
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=174778§ion=Opinion&for...
Published Sunday, August 12, 2007
Landowner list in pipeline case sought
By Terry Woster
twoster@argusleader.com
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/NEWS/7080...
Published: August 8, 2007
PIERRE – South Dakota’s Public Utilities Commission will hear arguments later this month on a request to make public the names of landowners with property along the route of a proposed crude-oil pipeline.
Canadian energy company plans another pipeline in U.S.
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/08/06/pipeline-oil.html
Last Updated: Monday, August 6, 2007
The Canadian Press
TransCanada Corp. is joining with Northwest Natural Gas Company on a proposal to build a natural gas pipeline in Oregon that could cost the companies up to $700 million US.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=410
Oil Sands Committee reports back
It is time for the Stelmach government to pick a side: public or industry.
Dateline: Tuesday, August 07, 2007
by Ricardo Acuna
Last week, the Alberta Government released the much anticipated final report and recommendations of the Oil Sands Multi-Stakeholder Committee — the committee charged with carrying out a broad-based consultation with Albertans and making recommendations on the future of the Alberta tar sands.
