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.

China's cash floods into Canadian energy sector

China's cash floods into Canadian energy sector
By Wenran Jiang
Asia Times

As China has become the world's second-largest economy, its demand for energy has caused it to become the world's biggest comprehensive energy consumer. Accompanying this process has been a sharp upward trend in Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) focused on energy and other resources.

Canada has become the latest addition to Beijing's FDI investment priority list with C$15 billion (US$15.2 billion) worth of Chinese capital pouring into the energy-rich province of Alberta in 2010. [1]

Keystone XL Pipeline Safety Standards Not as Rigorous as They Seem

Keystone XL Pipeline Safety Standards Not as Rigorous as They Seem
Monday 19 September 2011
by: Elizabeth McGowan, Truthout

Research by NRDC shows that only 12 of the 57 conditions set by federal regulators differ from the minimum standards already required for pipeline safety.

Washington - TransCanada and the U.S. State Department have repeatedly touted safety standards for the proposed Keystone XL heavy crude pipeline as robust and unparalleled. As proof, they point to 57 "special conditions" that the Alberta-based pipeline operator has agreed to follow.

Activists, company spar over controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline

Activists, company spar over controversial international oil pipeline
By the CNN Wire Staff
Mon September 19, 2011

(CNN) -- As the decision deadline on the controversial proposal to build a giant oil pipeline between Alberta, Canada, and Texas draws closer, activists and the company behind the project are ratcheting up their war of words.

Known as Keystone XL, the 1,700-mile pipeline has drawn fierce criticism from activists like Daryl Hannah, who spoke to CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Monday.

EIA sees huge oil hike by 2035

Oil production is set to soar by nearly 27 million barrels a day to meet booming demand from mainly non-OECD countries by 2035, the US Energy Information Administration claimed on Monday.

Eoin O'Cinneide
19 September 2011
Upstream Online

Iran and Qatar are also set to take centre stage in a jump in natural gas production in the next quarter of a century with the Middle East and Australia weighing-in heavily with increased LNG supply.

Can Israeli Oil Shale Outsize Saudi Arabia?

Maurice Picow
Can Israeli Oil Shale Outsize Saudi Arabia?
Maurice Picow | July 7th, 2011

Does Israel want its Negev and Galilee regions torn up for “black gold”?

Alberta Oil Mag on US Job creation, the recession, and the Keystone XL & Gateway Pipelines from tar sands.

Anemic U.S. job growth continues

Northern Gateway quietly gathers momentum amid stalled U.S. economy

By Jeff Lewis

September 04, 2011
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Keep an eye on U.S. President Barack Obama this week. The embattled president is set to announce his jobs package in a joint session of Congress Thursday against a backdrop of anemic U.S. job creation. A Labor Department report on Friday showed the American economy had failed to create jobs in August, putting an end to nearly a year of increases.

CTV Edmonton on Keystone XL Protests in DC

Backlash against Alta., Oil pipeline
Sat Sep. 03 2011 17:43:19

Nahreman Issa, ctvedmonton.ca

It's being called the largest act of civil disobedience in the US-environmental movement and it's directed at Alberta.

A two week "sit-in" outside the White House has come to an end Saturday, resulting in the arrests of more than 1200 people. They're calling on the government to quash the construction of an oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas.

They say despite the arrests, they are more demonstrations on the way.

Potential Enbridge Gateway Investors Grow

UPDATE 1-Enbridge pipe has 2nd China-related backer -report

Fri Sep 2, 2011 1:01pm EDT

CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 2 (Reuters) - MEG Energy Corp (MEG.TO), a small oil sands developer partly owned by China's CNOOC Ltd (0883.HK), is among financial backers of a planned pipeline to Canada's West Coast from Alberta, a newspaper reported on Friday.

Canadian government accused of 'unprecedented' tar sands lobbying

Friends of the Earth Europe claims ministers have attempted to undermine European fuel legislation that would affect exports

Terry Macalister
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 August 2011

The Canadian government has been accused of an "unprecedented" lobbying effort involving 110 meetings in less than two years in Britain and Europe in a bid to derail new fuel legislation that could hit exports from its tar sands.

U.S. Oil Giants Poised to Gain on Keystone Pipeline

By Amy Harder
Updated: August 5, 2011

Three major American oil companies are poised to gain big if the Obama administration green-lights a controversial pipeline that would send 700,000 barrels of oil a day from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Texas.