Peak Oil is starting to be understood across a broad spectrum, but the direct connection between peak oil, climate change and the American market-led attempt to squeeze all energy out of Alberta cannot be overstated. The smaller the global supply of oil gets, the more CO2 has been emitted and the more climate change will have advanced. This leads to more interest in the tar sands—because the profit margin goes ever higher the fewer alternatives there are for petroleum. Without Peak Oil bearing down on humanity, no economical reason would exist to produce this energy intensive, low-output petrol.
Sunday, September 04, 2011
Koch Bros will be big winners if Keystone sludge-oil pipeline is approved
by Gaius Publius on 9/04/2011
America Blog
Well, there's a surprise. Obama's worst enemy, and the climate's as well, the ever-famous Koch Brothers and Koch Industries, are positioned to be big winners if (when) the Keystone Tar Sands pipeline is approved.
A Tar Sands Partnership Agreement in the Making?
Macdonald Stainsby | August 1st 2011
Campaigns against tar sands production have grown rapidly over the last four years. From the relative obscurity in Alberta to an international lightning rod for people trying to address all manner of concerns from indigenous and community self-determination to peak oil and climate change – criticisms of the largest industrial project in human history have gained a major voice. The voices are certainly not homogenous, but a large contingent of these voices call for a shut down of tar sands production and a move away from fossil fuels – if not an outright move away from market-led growth of any sort. But, in the language of the environmental elite, what are the “decision makers” preparing to do with all this anti-tar sands resistance?
Into the Muskeg Swamps of Northern Alberta
A Brief Ideological History of the Tar Sands
Earth First Journal
By Nickle
"This is not oil drilling. It's not even mining. It is
terrestrial skinning. Vast, vivid landscapes are being
gutted, left monochromatic gray." --NAOMI KLEIN
Canadian government accused of 'unprecedented' tar sands lobbying
Friends of the Earth Europe claims ministers have attempted to undermine European fuel legislation that would affect exports
Terry Macalister
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 August 2011
The Canadian government has been accused of an "unprecedented" lobbying effort involving 110 meetings in less than two years in Britain and Europe in a bid to derail new fuel legislation that could hit exports from its tar sands.
Resumption at CNRL project to lower prices for oil sands crude
nathan vanderklippe
CALGARY— From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Aug. 04, 2011 6:26AM EDT
The price of crude is likely to decline for a number of oil sands companies as Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNQ-T35.25-0.94-2.60%)brings back to life its fire-damaged Horizon project.
Following in the footsteps of Suncor, major players in tar sands production are now getting into conventional oil and gas elsewhere.
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Athabasca eyes higher conventional budget
By Dan Healing, Calgary Herald
August 4, 2011
CALGARY — Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. said Thursday it is considering increasing its budget to explore on its conventional Deep Basin oil and gas assets for the second time this year.
U.S. Oil Giants Poised to Gain on Keystone Pipeline
By Amy Harder
Updated: August 5, 2011
Three major American oil companies are poised to gain big if the Obama administration green-lights a controversial pipeline that would send 700,000 barrels of oil a day from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Texas.
Unist’hot’en Camp II
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August 12 – 15, 2011 in Wet’suwet’en Territory *
[ updates will be posted here: http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com
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Wet’suwet’en seeks to operate a second camp building further resistance
to the large influx of industrial activities in our Indigenous Lands and
Waters, often with no consent or consultation, or consultation as a
final stage of development. The major focus of this camp is largely
educational and hopefully strategic. Last year the major focus was Tar
Sands and Pipelines, and training for current and future activists to
operate as a larger body to resist Tar Sands and affiliated
infrastructure and systemic support of Tar Sands expansion.
Let's expose the structure of violence that keeps the world economy running.
With an entire planet being slaughtered before our eyes, it's
terrifying to watch the very culture responsible for this - the culture
of industrial civilization, fueled by a finite source of fossil fuels,
primarily a dwindling supply of oil - thrust forward wantonly to fuel
its insatiable appetite for "growth."
Deluded by myths of progress and suffering from the psychosis of
technomania complicated by addiction to depleting oil reserves,
Conflicting signals on pipeline expansion
Report suggests U.S. has 'tipped the scales' in favor of OKing permit for 2nd leg of Keystone project; not so, official says.
By Neela Banerjee • Tribune Newspapers STLtoday.com | Posted: Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:00 am
WASHINGTON • At a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania in early April, President Barack Obama was asked about a bitter fight between industry and environmentalists over a proposed $7 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline to ship crude from Alberta's oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries.
