Shell Withdraws From Largest Tar Sands Project Yet
by Ari Phillips Posted on February 25, 2015
"Shell Withdraws From Largest Tar Sands Project Yet"
Keystone XL is not the only deciding factor in the future of tar sands extraction.
Social Impacts
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.
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.
Anti-tar sands activists in the U.S. are getting visits from the FBI
Anti-oil sands activists in the U.S. are getting visits from the FBI
Alexander Panetta
WASHINGTON — The Canadian Press
Published Saturday, Feb. 07 2015
Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States — knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members.
The visitors are federal agents.
Opponents of Canadian oil say they’ve been contacted by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to Canada’s oilsands.
Shell shelves plan for Pierre River tar sands project in face of low oil prices
Shell shelves plan for tar sands project in face of low oil prices
Withdrawal from the Pierre River project is the latest in a series of blows to industry reliant on high cost production struggling with oil prices at six-year lows
Shell has shelved plans for a major new tar sands mine in Canada, the largest project yet to fall victim to low oil prices.
The company has withdrawn its application for the 200,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Pierre River project and will instead concentrate on boosting the profitability of its existing 255,000-bpd oil sands operations.
Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline bill
Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline bill
JACQUELYN MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Associated Press |
WASHINGTON—Defying the Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, wielding his veto power for only the third time in his presidency.
Shell hits back at 'carbon bubble' claims
Shell hits back at 'carbon bubble' claims
Oil and gas company publishes 20 page document telling investors that climate laws will not leave it with 'stranded assets'
John Vidal
theguardian.com, Tuesday 20 May 2014
Chicago's Petcoke Woes Are Far From Over
Chicago's Petcoke Woes Are Far From Over
Mayor Rahm Emanuel banned new or expanded refineries that produce the stuff, but the Southeast side is still dealing with what's already there.
Sarah Goodyear
May 19, 2014
Climate Change and Cultural Adaptation in Coastal Louisiana
Climate Change and Cultural Adaptation in Coastal Louisiana
Facing the Rising Tide
by JULIA KOPPEL MALDONADO
May 20, 2014
Protesters rally in Marktown against BP (Indiana)
Protesters rally in Marktown against BP
May 17, 2014
EAST CHICAGO — Michelle BarlondSmith of Battle Creek, Mich., has been living with the aftereffects of the Enbridge oil spill for three years, nine months and 24 days, and her community is still not whole.
Urgent: Enbridge Line 9 Site has been occupied close to Burlington (May 20, 2014)
Urgent: Enbridge Line 9 Site has been occupied close to Burlington, Ontario this morning
Krystalline Kraus
| May 20, 2014
Early this morning, anti-tar sands activists are currently blockading the access road to an exposed section of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline. They have pledged to remain on site for, “at least twelve hours, one hour for every thousand anomalies Enbridge has reported to exist on the line.”
The blockaders arrived on site at 7:00 am and began to turn Enbridge Oil employees as they began to arrive for their morning shift.
Canada’s $207,000 tar sands ad: Putting a price on deception
Canada’s $207,000 oil sands ad: Putting a price on deception
Eric Reguly
The Globe and Mail
Published Friday, May. 09 2014
The ad in The New Yorker is pretty, if not quite arresting. The full-page photo on the inside back cover – prime real estate in the United States’ leading upmarket magazine – features a pristine river meandering through a lush mountain valley, untouched by humanity. It is not a tourism ad. It is designed to convince influential Americans that the Keystone XL pipeline is environmentally safe, even desirable.
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