Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

Social Impacts

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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“The (labour) picture [in Fort Muck] isn’t getting any better – in fact it’s getting worse."

Fort Hills to cost $14-billion
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070628.WBwenergyblo...
Norval Scott, June 28, 2007 at 10:45 AM EDT

The Peak Oil Crisis: Twin problems

Written by Tom Whipple
http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1374&Itemi...
Thursday, 07 June 2007

Indigenous Nations Governments Challenging Tar Sands

Oilsands Facing Aboriginal Opposition

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A couple of First Nations groups are protesting oilsands operations
in their backyards.

The Woodland Cree First Nation (WCFN) says it intends to file an
intervention with the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board regarding
Shell Canada Limited's Carmon Creek oilsands project near Peace River.

Meanwhile the Clearwater River Dene Nation in northwest Saskatchewan

Call for Oil/Gas Traffic Ban on BC Coast

"The issue has gained prominence mainly because of several proposals
to construct pipelines linking Alberta with the coast at Prince
Rupert or Kitimat. Crude oil from the oil sands would be pumped west
for export, while "condensate" used to thin the thick crude in the
pipeline would be removed and sent back eastward along a parallel pipe."

The Globe and Mail (Canada)
June 25, 2007 Monday
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070625.BCTANKERS25/TP...

MPs call for Northern B.C. oil-tanker ban; Fear of spills could shut

Venezuelan Gusanos Flock to Fort McMurray

Fleeing Chavez, oil workers flock to frigid Alberta
By JOEL MILLMAN, The Wall Street Journal
Associated Press Financial Wire
June 26, 2007 Tuesday 2:10 PM GMT

FORT McMURRAY, Alberta Before he left Venezuela in April for this
petroleum outpost in northern Alberta, Freddy Mendez heard tales
about bone-chilling winter cold and lumbering moose. Since he's come
to town, he's seen two black bears in his neighborhood. Still, the
toughest adjustment is the late-night sun.

"You get a lot of work done when the sun doesn't set until 11," he

Panel: [Keystone] Pipeline may help stop jam

Panel: Pipeline may help stop jam
Janell Cole, Forum Communications Co.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=170417&section=News&forumc...
Published Saturday, June 30, 2007

BISMARCK – The North Dakota Industrial Commission is urging construction of the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, saying it has the potential to alleviate an international pipeline bottleneck that hurts the sale of North Dakota crude oil.

Fort McMurray: Boomtown on a bender

Boomtown on a bender

Jun 28th 2007 | FORT MCMURRAY
From The Economist print edition
The downside of explosive growth in northern Alberta

WITH C$36 billion ($25 billion) invested so far in its oil sands and another C$45 billion expected over the next decade, the Canadian province of Alberta is booming. Workers have flocked in, lured by wages of up to C$120,000 a year. The once sleepy town of Fort McMurray, at the centre of the bonanza, boasts a crowded casino and a busy airport. But big money has brought big problems, including overstretched infrastructure and soaring drug use.

US Refineries to Double Tar Sands intake by 2015: CAPP

As the first new refinery in the US for 30 years was announced recently, it is worthy to note the number of new ones that are planned for the future increase in tar sands production. They are needed, since the US sees the tarsands as "domestic" production.

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US refinery demand for Canadian crude to double by 2015: CAPP

BY JUDY MONCHUK, CP

CALGARY (CP) _ U.S. refinery demand for western Canadian crude oil is projected to almost double by 2015, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says in its annual outlook.

Fort MacKay to start Commerical Operation of Tar Sands Mining

As always, when it comes to writing these press releases the official Indian Act government of the population is considered and treated as the only voice that the nation should have. There are serious heath concerns, random violence and the worst environmental nightmare imaginable on this territory (misspelled in the article below) of Fort MacKay.

North Dakota: Walsh County couple challenging [Keystone] pipeline

Walsh County couple challenging pipeline
http://www.kxmc.com/News/138318.asp
Jun 26 2007 8:42AM
Associated Press

Bismarck, N.D. (AP) A Walsh County couple and the Dakota Resource Council are trying to stop part of a proposed two (b) billion-dollar crude oil pipeline from going through North Dakota.

John and Janie Capp of Lankin and the D-R-C have asked the state Public Service Commission for a hearing on whether the TransCanada Keystone pipeline is needed. They're citing a constitutional amendment approved by voters last fall.