Water

Alberta ground zero for green battle
Fight would divide nation, Lougheed says

Janice Tibbetts, with files from Jamie Komarnicki, Calgary Herald, CanWest
News Service
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=e242ed29-ec94-4259...

Published: Wednesday, August 15, 2007

CALGARY -- Canada is facing a bitter constitutional clash over the
environment and Alberta's oil industry that will threaten national unity and
eventually end up in the Supreme Court of Canada, former Alberta premier
Peter Lougheed warned Tuesday.

http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=410

Oil Sands Committee reports back

It is time for the Stelmach government to pick a side: public or industry.

Dateline: Tuesday, August 07, 2007

by Ricardo Acuna

Last week, the Alberta Government released the much anticipated final report and recommendations of the Oil Sands Multi-Stakeholder Committee — the committee charged with carrying out a broad-based consultation with Albertans and making recommendations on the future of the Alberta tar sands.

As always, the good news is that when such hate comes at you, it is part of a larger concern that the politics being brought forth by critics are harming "business as usual". As such, people concerned about traditional lands from Edmonton to Kitamaat Village and up and down the Inside Pasage of BC should take note, and perhaps a pat on the back. Fear them only when they ignore you.

--M

This MP should stay far away
By ROGER HARRIS
http://www.terracestandard.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=33&cat=48&id=...
Aug 08 2007

What you read here is a press release put out by the Tri-Valley corp. It is obviously full of self-promoting, you should-buy-our-stocks stuff-- where it announces the beginning of tar sands "extraction" experimentation with Californian "SagD" or in-situ "drilling" of massive energy and high cost tar sands bitumen. AS this is what most of the Orinoco Basin is made up of, it would be likely that there is ex-pat Venezuelan Gusano help in trying to undercut the Bolivarians with this technology.

In a sentence: Welcome California into the world of producing death from sand to get oil.

Snippets from the Business pages:
1 Enbridge Promises to build Gateway Pipeline without PetroChina & build Alberta Clipper
2 Largest Companies trying to get in on Expansion of Tar Sands
3 CP to further Expand in Tar Sands
4 Husky adding more Refineries
5 Imperial Oil buys huge exploration permit in Arctic /Beaufort Sea

These stories paint a collective picture of development of mock "oil" out of control.

As the article explains, this is not only Suncor but one of many new vast expansions being planned by the "major players". The upgrader facilities are essential and not hard to understand. All of this development is, as always, continuous and along side existing facilities and tar pits, none of it slowing down or remaining static at a certain speed but like a run-away freight train. This train loaded with gas is headed straight for the water.

--M

Suncor to expand tar sands mining operations
By Scott Haggett

Europe must do what it can to stop the rush for ‘bad oil’
http://www.transportenvironment.org/Article440.html
Jul 26, 2007
Editorial by Jos Dings

Bad oil? To some people familiar with the environmental movement, the term “bad oil” may sound odd. Isn’t all oil bad from an environmental perspective?

Everything is relative. Yes, the oil we use today is very bad for the climate. But the so-called “unconventional” oil the world is looking to use in increasing intensity is so bad for the climate that today’s oil actually looks good in comparison.

Energy Alberta's nuclear maverick revamping power plant application
http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=63520
Canadian Press, July 20, 2007

CALGARY (CP) - The head of Energy Alberta Corp., an upstart western company pushing nuclear power in the Prairies, isn't taking the summer off, as planned.

Instead, Wayne Henuset is revamping a site application to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission from his office in the suburbs of southeast Calgary.

Imperial, ExxonMobil to explore Beaufort Sea for oil, gas
Last Updated: Thursday, July 19, 2007 | 5:48 PM CT
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/07/19/nwt-imperial.html

Imperial Oil Ltd. and sister company ExxonMobil Canada have acquired an exploration licence from the federal government to look for oil and gas in a parcel of the Beaufort Sea, the two companies announced Thursday.

A great article and summation, though I believe that author Swanson is a tad too optimistic to suggest that the project looks dead. The plans for moving heavy bitumen [et al] to other markets-- with the US most likely demanding to be the first ones considered-- must happen in phases, because the recoverability/daily oil-producing capacity cannot be tripled overnight.