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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Council of Treaty 8 Chiefs Note Passage of Alaska Gasline Inducement Act

Council of Treaty 8 Chiefs Note Passage of Alaska Gasline Inducement Act
http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&sea...

AFL: Public hearings begin today to build "Mega Pipeline"-- Keystone

Public hearings begin today at National Energy Board on proposal to
build "mega-pipeline" to move unrefined oilsands from Alberta to
refineries in U.S.
Labour groups lead charge to keep value-added jobs in Alberta

CALGARY, June 4 /CNW/ - Hearings begin this week before the National
Energy Board in Calgary to determine whether or not the first of several
"mega-pipelines" designed to move unrefined bitumen from the Alberta's
oilsands to refineries in the United States will be allowed to proceed.
The pipeline under consideration is called the Keystone pipeline and is

Enbridge to build Alberta Clipper

June 4, 2007
Enbridge to build Alberta Clipper
http://dcnonl.com/article/id22587
Daily Construction News
CALGARY

Enbridge Inc. has filed an application with the National Energy Board for the construction and operation of the Canadian segment of the Alberta Clipper Project, a proposed 1,607-kilometre expansion project to provide greater access for Western Canadian crude oil to U.S. Midwest markets.

Anti-Tar Sands Boot Camp

Oilsands growth energizes activists
Environmentalists turn up pressure on 'unsustainable' development with training camp in non-violent protest tactics
Hanneke Brooymans, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Monday, June 04, 2007

EDMONTON - A group of frustrated environmentalists has gathered at a camp on the outskirts of Edmonton to learn eco-activist tactics for use against booming oilsands development.

Ottawa is missing the boat on climate change

Ottawa is missing the boat on climate change
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/221119
Jun 04, 2007 04:30 AM
David Crane

A key to dealing with climate change is to design new technologies, from innovations for energy efficiency, new forms of clean energy such as fuel cells, or ways to make energy products such as coal and oil "clean."

Hearings into Keystone pipeline resume

Media Advisory - Hearings into Keystone pipeline resume

CALGARY, June 4 /CNW Telbec/ - Phase 2 of hearings into the Keystone
Pipeline proposal -- plans by TransCanada Pipelines to export 500,000 barrels
of raw bitumen a day from Alberta's tar sands to the mid-west United States --
open today here before the National Energy Board. Phase 2 deals with a TCPL
application to build an extension to its existing pipeline in southern
Manitoba. Phase 1 hearings dealt with a TCPL application to convert the
existing pipeline from gas to crude oil transportation. A decision on that

Moratorium 'applies only to southbound oil-tanker traffic' (Yeah, right)

Ban doesn't apply in this case, ministers say
Moratorium 'applies only to southbound oil-tanker traffic'
Christina Montgomery, The Province
Published: Sunday, June 03, 2007
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=8eab3918-c7b2-49ca-...

When is a moratorium not a moratorium? Apparently, when governments decide it's just a "policy."

China warms to B.C. coal

China warms to B.C. coal
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=d73404f8-...

Transportation problems in Australia create opportunity for West Coast producers
Joanne Lee-Young, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, June 04, 2007

China's steel-makers are hungry for coal as the world's fastest-growing economy continues to overheat, and that is fuelling Chinese interest in B.C.'s coal resources, which have traditionally served Asian markets other than China.

Opinions differ on safety of possible nuclear plant

Opinions differ on safety of possible nuclear plant
Last Updated: Monday, May 28, 2007 | 11:42 AM MT
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/05/28/alberta-nuclear.html

A sustainable energy advocate is warning about the possible safety drawbacks of building a nuclear power plant in Alberta, but an engineering expert said the risks are small.

"There are all sorts of different ways in which material can leave the plant under both normal operating conditions, accident conditions or the possibility of a security incident," said Mark Winfield of the Pembina Institute.

Alberta finance minister feeling nervous about energy royalty review

Alberta finance minister feeling nervous about energy royalty review
Published: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | 9:31 PM ET
Canadian Press: JIM MACDONALD
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/070530/b0530128A.html

EDMONTON (CP) - With many Albertans feeling left in the dust by the current energy boom, Finance Minister Lyle Oberg says he's nervous about an ongoing review of billions of dollars in annual resource royalties.

Oberg concedes it's the kind of issue a government can get beaten over the head with, especially if voters don't have confidence in the way the review is handled.