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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Canada dead last on climate change

Canada dead last on climate change
We can no longer use the U.S. as an excuse for inaction
GERALD BUTTS, Freelance
Published: Wednesday, July 08

Here is a sobering thought to consider as Canada prepares to assume the presidency of the G8 following this week's meeting in Italy: Canada has for the first time replaced the United States as the worst performer on tackling climate change among G8 nations. This was revealed in the recent G8 Climate Scorecard, released jointly by WWF, the global conservation organization, and the global insurance company Allianz.

Kinder Morgan pipes march through BC

West Coast oilsands exports at record

Shipments open new markets for Alberta crude

By Shaun Polczer, Calgary Herald
July 9, 2009

CALGARY - Exports of oilsands via tanker ships off the West Coast hit an all-time high this spring, the head of the only pipeline company to cross the Rocky Mountains said in Calgary Wednesday.

End of the US $ as Reserve Currency?

Globe and Mail July 6, 2009
Calls grow to supplant dollar as global currency

France joins China, India and Russia in calling for a new reserve standard on the eve of the G8 summit

Karim Bardeesy

The call to find an alternative to the U.S dollar as the global reserve currency is gaining momentum as France joined calls by China, India and Russia for a review of the world's currency practices.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde challenged the dollar's supremacy “in a world that has changed because of the crisis and the growing role of emerging countries.”

IEA still sees major role for Canadian tar sands

IEA still sees major role for Canadian oil sands

Peter O’Neil, Canwest News Europe Correspondent, Canwest News Service
Monday, June 29, 2009

The Canadian oil sands “appears to be the sector hardest hit by the recession and the sharp fall in oil prices,” the Paris-based agency said in a report assessing the impact of the economic crisis on the world’s oil and gas supplies.

PARIS -- The Canadian oil sands sector is "down but not out" in its role as a major and secure safety net in the global energy market, the International Energy Agency reported Monday.

Thunder Bay, On: Local work helping western tar sands

Local work helping western oil sands
By Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch // June 26, 2009

It’s big, it looks complicated, it’s worth a half a million dollars and it’s an integral part of Thunder Bay’s economic future.

On Friday Venshore Mechanical Ltd. unveiled one of two fuel offloading modules it has built – with the assistance of several other local-area companies – and plans to deliver to western Canada for use in the multi-billion oil sands project.

China's unquenchable thirst for oil

China's unquenchable thirst for oil
Despite recession, the Chinese are aggressively pursuing energy assets

Shawn McCarthy and Eric Reguly

Ottawa, Rome — Globe and Mail
Jun. 27, 2009

A refinery in Singapore. Oil and gas fields in Central Asia. A pipeline in Russia. Ultradeep crude deposits off Brazil. Production wells in Libya.

And now Toronto-listed Addax Petroleum Corp., (AXC-T49.930.180.36%) with its oil fields in western Africa and Iraq's Kurdistan.

Enbridge Gateway Pipeline proposal raises vexing questions

Pipeline proposal raises vexing questions
Written by Jeannette Paterson
Prince George
Thursday, 18 June 2009

Wanting to get a better sense of how or if the Enbridge pipeline would benefit the majority of British Columbians, I looked back at the Thomas Berger Inquiry held in the 1970s regarding the Mackenzie Delta natural gas pipeline.

It was, of course, recommended that a 10-year moratorium be put in place until the aboriginal people living in the area had completed their land claims and then, from a position of ownership and power, the project could be revisited.

Bin explodes near site of previous B.C. pipeline explosions

Bin explodes near site of previous B.C. pipeline explosions
Explosion near the site of 4 previous still under investigation

Canwest News Service
June 12, 2009

Police probe the site of an earlier explosion targeting a sour-gas well in the B.C. Interior. RCMP confirmed Friday they are investigating an explosion in a large bear-proof garbage bin near Dawson Creek sometime overnight.

Exxon joins TransCanada's Alaska pipeline project

Carrie Tait and Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post
Thursday, June 11, 2009

CALGARY -- The world's largest publicly owned energy company has thrown its weight behind TransCanada Corp.'s effort to build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska North Slope to the rest of the United States, a move which could jam a stake through the heart of a rival pipeline plan and further haunt Canada's stalled Mackenzie Valley pipeline.