Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

War and Security

The tarsands are only economical at a certain price per barrel. The attacks on Iraq and Somalia, along with threats against Venezuela, Iran and elsewhere all combine to drive that price up. This significantly leaves the US economic structures able to tighten their control on oil distribution around the world as they de-diversify their oil imports to heavy reliance on tarsand (mock) oil, growing in percentage at a incredible pace. Canada is ever more integrating this (mock) oil into the North American grid, at the behest of both Canadian and American corporations. While Iraq's oil is disrupted often, Canada has no national reserve system and the corporations are aiming to extract up to 25% of American economical daily requirements from the tarsands in less than a decade. With NAFTA Expanding into the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) more and more of these policies become removed from the public realm and help maintain exploitation and war on the planet and people within it by a tag team of nation-states from North America.

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Thailand's oil giant buys stake in Statoil Canada tar sands project

Thailand's oil giant buys stake in Statoil Canada oil sands project
MCOT.net

BANGKOK, Nov 23 - PTTEP Netherland Holding Limited (PTTEP NL) on Monday signed a partnership unit sale agreement with Statoil Canada Ltd and Statoil Canada Holdings Corp (subsidiaries of Statoil ASA or Statoil) for a 40 per cent stake in the Kai Kos Dehseh Oil Sands Project (KKD) in Canada.

PTTEP NL is a subsidiary of Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production, and Statoil a world leader in heavy oil and deep water exploration and production.

Tar sands execs set to hear from U.S. groups

Oilsands execs set to hear from U.S. groups

Updated: Sun Nov. 14 2010
The Canadian Press

CALGARY — Oilsands executives are heading to three U.S. cities this week to hear what environmental groups, business leaders, academics and others have to say about an industry heavily criticized for its environmental impact.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has been holding roundtable discussions in several Canadian cities since the summer.

Arctic seen as possible shipping route for massive industrial components

Arctic seen as possible shipping route for massive industrial components
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
CALGARY— Globe and Mail Update
Published Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010

As protesters clog a new corridor built to transport the massive building blocks of a new oil sands mine, a small Northwest Territories company has suddenly found itself showered with interest by Asian companies looking for an alternative.

US Tea Party's Deep Ties to Tar Sands Giant

US Tea Party's Deep Ties to Oil Sands Giant

Owners of Koch Industries, a major processor of Alberta crude, spent millions to foment and support a movement against Obama's climate change policies.

By Geoff Dembicki, November 1, 2010, TheTyee.ca

The Tea Party movement, poised to help shift the U.S. legislature to the right and stymie President Obama's green agenda, has financial and organizational ties to Koch Industries, one of America's biggest processors of Alberta oil sands crude.

Can the Canadian Economy Afford the Tar Sands?

Can the Canadian Economy Afford the Tar Sands?
Jeffrey Rubin
Economist // October 19, 2010

America is banking on a lot more Canadian bitumen exports to supply it with oil in the future. Already the single largest source of the US's imported oil, the Alberta tar sands' supply could soon comprise as much as almost a third of America's total oil imports -- apart from the fact that it's far from clear whether or not the rest of the Canadian economy could afford the consequences.

Imperial's tar sands modules traverse circuitous route

Imperial's oilsands modules traverse circuitous route

By Dave Cooper, Edmonton Journal October 16, 2010

With Imperial's $8-billion Kearl oilsands project now about 25 per cent complete, the first two South Koreanmade modules have arrived by barge in Lewiston, Idaho, after a 500-kilometre trip from the U.S. West Coast.

A shipload of modules arrived on Oct. 3 at the Port of Vancouver, Wash., across from Portland on the Columbia River. The units were loaded onto barges and towed up the Columbia and Snake rivers to Lewiston.

It goes against our nature; but the left has to start asserting its own values

The progressive attempt to appeal to self-interest has been a catastrophe. Empathy, not expediency, must drive our campaigns

o George Monbiot
o guardian.co.uk, Monday 11 October 2010

So here we are, forming an orderly queue at the slaughterhouse gate. The punishment of the poor for the errors of the rich, the abandonment of universalism, the dismantling of the shelter the state provides: apart from a few small protests, none of this has yet brought us out fighting.

NASA Scientist Urges Canada Not To Touch Tar Sands

NASA Scientist Urges Canada Not To Touch Oil Sands
October 6, 2010

AHN News Staff

Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada (AHN) - Another nail was driven into Alberta’s oil sands industry on Tuesday after a top NASA scientist advised the province to leave the tar fields alone. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies gave the advice to a panel reviewing the proposed Total E&P $9-billion plan to build the Joslyn North Mine.

Peak oil notes - Sept 9

Peak oil notes - Sept 9
by Staff

Prices and production

Protecting the Tar Sands, Protecting Capitalism

Whatever It Takes:
Protecting the Tar Sands, Protecting Capitalism
Ryan Katz-Rosene

Something is rotten in the province of Alberta! And it's not just the tar sands. It's the way political and corporate elites do whatever it takes to extinguish potential threats to the bituminous megaproject. The attempt to protect the tar sands from criticism can be framed as a part of a broader effort to protect the ‘rights’ of private interests to profit from bitumen production.