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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B.C. may face unprecedented native unrest if rights ignored

TEX ENEMARK,
VANCOUVER SUN
MARCH 3, 2011

In an article in The Sun Feb. 14, ("The Skeetchestn say enough already"),
Rich Deneault, the Skeetchestn Band chief served notice that the way
business and governments ride roughshod over native rights in British
Columbia has to come to an end, or face the consequences, which may not be
pretty.

He says, very bluntly, "In the days ahead, those companies and agencies
that have not acted honourably will be receiving letters from us, advising

Why the BBC's 'impartial' stance on climate science is irresponsible

Sceptics too often go unchallenged when they make inaccurate and misleading statements on BBC programmes
Bob Ward
Thursday 3 March 2011
guardian.co.uk

A bizarre performance by former TV presenter Johnny Ball on Wednesday's edition of The Daily Politics show has once again highlighted the BBC's unsuccessful struggle to balance accuracy and impartiality when it comes to climate change.

Government of Trinidad and Tobago are now hawking tar sands...

The government of T&T is now openly pushing the expansion of Tar Sands bitumen extraction to include their small island. The link below is to a pamphlet put out only a couple of weeks back. Anyone who knows people in T&T should immediately raise the alarm as to what is actually taking place, and not allow this development-- the most destructive in the world-- from entering through the backdoor on this spectacular island.

http://www.energy.gov.tt/content/244.pdf

What 'Peak Oil' Really Means for the Energy Sector

What 'Peak Oil' Really Means for the Energy Sector
by: Kenneth D. Worth February 23, 2011

Peak oil is here. Even the International Energy Agency (IEA) has admitted that production of conventional petroleum has peaked, although they forecast continued conventional production at 2011's reduced levels (down 2 million barrels per day from 2006) many years into the future.

Tar Sands "fetch premium price"

Oil sands crude fetches premium price
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Mar. 02, 2011

Synthetic crude – produced by oil sands companies such as Suncor Energy Inc., Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Nexen Inc. and Syncrude Canada Ltd. – is fetching a premium of more than $15 over West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude that closed above $100 yesterday for the first time since October, 2008. Historically, the price for synthetic crude has stayed roughly level with WTI.

Keystone’s tar sands pipeline concerns environmentalists

Keystone’s tar sands pipeline concerns environmentalists
2011-03-02 /
The Cherokeean Herald

TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline System is being heralded as one of the largest infrastructure projects ever undertaken by the United States and Canada – four times the length of the Alaska pipeline.

The 2,151-mile pipeline already connects Hardisty, Can. with Cushing, Ok. Lying in the path of the Keystone Gulf Coast Extension (Keystone XL) from Cushing, Ok. to Port Arthur is Cherokee County.

Disaster Capitalism at the Local Level: Tar Sands to Toledo

Disaster Capitalism at the Local Level
Tar Sands to Toledo
Weekend edition,
February 25 - 26, 2011
By TRUDY BOND

"I am extremely pleased with the announcement that BP has given the green light for the Sunrise project in Alberta."

-- Ohio Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur

Fracturing solidarity: The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement in context

Fracturing solidarity: The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement in context
February 22, 2011
By Dawn Paley
Briarpatch Magazine

EU to tackle Canadian tar sands in new law -sources

EU to tackle Canadian tar sands in new law -sources
Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:20pm GMT
Reuters

By Pete Harrison and Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck BRUSSELS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Europe's trade and climate chiefs are preparing to take a stand against imports of oil from Canada's polluting tar sands, despite fears the move might wreck a multi-billion dollar trade deal, according to EU sources and documents.

European Union sources said this week that Canada had threatened to pull out of trade talks because of the clash, but Ottawa has denied that. [ID:nLDE71H14V]

Madagascar Oil standoff with island government continues (corporate report)

[For background to this story, check here:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/devastation-madagascar/5524 ]

Madagascar Oil standoff with island government continues
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
by Andre Lamberti

Madagascar Oil’s standoff with the government is still continuing and the group said it remains extremely concerned by the delays that have been incurred since the initial meeting on December 16 2010 in which the island’s Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons (MMH) said it was interested in buying the company's licences.

The stock remains suspended at 75 pence.