Social Impacts. Overnight injections of migrant workers will not build healthy communities and can have severely adverse impacts on existing communities, especially those of indigenous nations on their traditional lands. Such development brings vices and long term displacement too often. Drugs, alcohol and associated violence spreads. Hunting becomes difficult when the land is threatened, leading to a further loss of culture and tradition. In towns like Fort McMurray there is no planning for the future, but merely consumption in the present. However transient the individuals may be, the populations will not leave, as “development” takes on a logic all its own. All levels of run away development are subordinate to that development, not social need.
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HEADLINE: Canada's oilsands bear the burden
BYLINE: Deborah Yedlin, Calgary Herald
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Anyone sounding the warning bells about oil prices crashing to earth
in the wake of the ongoing liquidity crunch would be well advised to
Squeezing oil from stones
There are vast reserves of oil trapped within Alberta's rockbed - the trick is getting it out
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NORVAL SCOTT
August 22, 2007
CALGARY -- OSUM Oil Sands Corp. believes it might have the answer to one of the oil patch's most perplexing problems - extracting the billions of barrels of crude trapped in Alberta's limestone deposits.
Syncrude ordered to cut emissions from smelly pond
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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.
No security and no prosperity
The Leader-Post
Published: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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On Aug. 22, there was a community forum on George W. Bush and Stephen Harper's "Security and Prosperity Partnership". The guest speaker was Peter Julian, NDP member of Parliament for Burnaby-New Westminster and critic on international trade.
This "security and prosperity partnership" doesn't offer security or prosperity for the majority of Canadians -- quite the opposite.
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
Prentice to stay on Mackenzie pipeline project
Decision provides continuity on complex issue, say proponents
Last Updated: Friday, August 17, 2007 | 10:29 AM CT
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/08/17/nwt-prentice.html
Industry Minister Jim Prentice will continue working on the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline project, even though he is no longer Indian and northern affairs minister — a move that has pleased pipeline proponents and continued to frustrate critics.
Breaks a danger in proposed pipeline
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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.
When citizens are most vulnerable
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Fort Chip Doctor Still Under Scrutiny
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SRJ Staff 24.AUG.07
Oilsands workers rally in Fort McMurray
Protesting ongoing labour dispute
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2007/08/23/4441128.html
By CP
FORT MCMURRAY — Hundreds of workers fed up with an ongoing labour dispute in the oilsands rallied in Fort McMurray on Wednesday night.
The workers, many of them from the pipefitters and electrical workers unions, are not happy with a four-year contract offer, and say they’re disappointed in how their union leaders have negotiated.
