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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The Peak Oil Crisis: Twin problems

Written by Tom Whipple
http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1374&Itemi...
Thursday, 07 June 2007

Venezuelan Gusanos Flock to Fort McMurray

Fleeing Chavez, oil workers flock to frigid Alberta
By JOEL MILLMAN, The Wall Street Journal
Associated Press Financial Wire
June 26, 2007 Tuesday 2:10 PM GMT

FORT McMURRAY, Alberta Before he left Venezuela in April for this
petroleum outpost in northern Alberta, Freddy Mendez heard tales
about bone-chilling winter cold and lumbering moose. Since he's come
to town, he's seen two black bears in his neighborhood. Still, the
toughest adjustment is the late-night sun.

"You get a lot of work done when the sun doesn't set until 11," he

Nuclear CO2 warming costs-- Helen Caldicott

http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/05/21/ou...
Published: May 21, 2007 at 2:23 PM
Outside View: Nuclear CO2 warming costs

By HELEN CALDICOTT UPI
Outside View Commentator

MELBOURNE, May 21 (UPI) -- The fact is, it takes energy to make energy --
even nuclear energy. And the true "energetic costs" of making nuclear
energy -- the amounts of traditionally generated fuel it takes to create
"new" nuclear energy -- have not been tallied up until very recently.

What exactly is nuclear power? It is a very expensive, sophisticated and

After Venezuela, ConocoPhillips May Redouble Canada Efforts

June 26, 2007: 03:37 PM EST

CALGARY -(Dow Jones)- Venezuela's intransigence on its challenging crude-oil projects may send ConocoPhillips' (COP) into the arms of Canada's oil sands.

Venezuela confirmed Tuesday that ConocoPhillips would exit the Orinico river basin, home to ventures that produce low-quality, or heavy, oil, after the Houston-based energy company refused the terms covering a new ownership structure for its projects. Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) also said it wasn't able to reach agreement with Venezuela.

Keystone Pipeline Bad For Canada, Lawyer Says

Keystone Pipeline Bad For Canada, Lawyer Says
Jun, 21 2007 - 2:30 PM
http://www.770chqr.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428436912&rem=68315&red=...

CALGARY/AM770CHQR - The lawyer representing Canada's largest energy workers union has told Calgary hearings on a massive pipeline project, it's a bad deal for Canada and Canadians.

The Keystone Pipeline would export half a million barrells per day of raw bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to the U.S.

Qatar/ Gulf Times on the Tar Sands going International

Canada oil sands lure global majors
Published: Thursday, 21 June, 2007, 01:45 AM Doha Time
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=156432...

FORT MCMURRAY, Canada: With world oil prices hovering at near nine-month highs and global energy firms flush with cash, analysts are predicting that control of Canada’s booming oil sands sector could soon fall into foreign hands.
Foreign bids worth tens of billions dollars are expected in the coming years as global oil companies look for new opportunities, say analysts.

The Pentagon Vs. Peak Oil

How Wars of the Future May Be Fought ...
Just to Run the Machines That Fight Them

by Michael T Klare

WorkingForChange (June 14 2007)

Sixteen gallons of oil. That's how much the average American soldier in
Iraq and Afghanistan consumes on a daily basis - either directly,
through the use of Humvees, tanks, trucks, and helicopters, or
indirectly, by calling in air strikes. Multiply this figure by 162,000
soldiers in Iraq, 24,000 in Afghanistan, and 30,000 in the surrounding
region (including sailors aboard US warships in the Persian Gulf) and

Enbridge CEO Interview: Gateway, China, Canada and more

Enbridge CEO on what's wrong with Canada's DNA
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070611.RDANIEL11/TPSt...
GORDON PITTS

June 11, 2007

CALGARY -- Patrick Daniel has the classic CV of an energy CEO - prairie upbringing, strong engineering education, and a varied career amid the cycles of the oil patch. Now 60 and head of pipeline giant Enbridge Inc., he is a critical link in the supply chain between Canada's oil producers and major North American markets. Mr. Daniel talks about this role, and the challenges in pushing Canadian thinking beyond this continent.

Notes from the Tar Pits: From McMurray to MacKay

Notes from the Tarpits:
Between MacKay and McMurray, my run in with the Gigaproject
June 14, 2007

National Post doing Tar Sand Damage Control

Such damage control is very important to undertake, especially when sea-changes in public opinion are underway as they are. Many of the "inconvenient spew" of this articles "talking points" are ridiculous. The suggestion that "Americans" have asked for tarsands to be ramped up would convince me if I thought that the average American knew where the Tarsands even were, let alone that he or she wants more from them.

This is, bottom line, proof we are getting somewhere. Let's keep moving; where we are coming from holds nothing.

--M

Oilsands gain a dirty name