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Pressure Drops, But Not On Canada
By Kenny Bruno
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
The Enbridge tar sands oil spill in Michigan was a very dark cloud, especially coming on the heels of the BP Deepwater disaster. The on-land and at-sea one-two punch of the BP and Enbridge mega-spills put pressure on the oil company TransCanada to show that, unlike other oil pipelines, its proposed cross-continental Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is safe.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, oil spills
Enbridge issued final notice of trespass by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs
By Tyler McCreary
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
On Tuesday, August 24th, representatives of Enbridge, Michelle Perret and Kevin Brown, received formal notice from Wet'suweten hereditary chiefs Hagwilakw (Antoinette Austin) and Toghestiy (Warner Naziel) that Enbridge was trespassing on unceded Wet'suwet'en lands and did not have permission to build a pipeline on their lands.
Tagged with: pipeline, enbridge, indigenous, indigenous rights, northern gateway pipeline, wet'suwet'en
When it comes to enforcing its regulations, is the ERCB more bark than bite?
By Dan Woynillowicz
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tagged with: energy resource conservation board, tailings standards
Latest blowout shines spotlight on in situ’s impacts
By Terra Simieritsch
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
For 36 hours this past weekend, a stream of high-temperature water and oil shot 12 metres into the air after a wellhead blew out at an in situ oil sands site just eight kilometres from the town of Conklin in northeastern Alberta. This incident points to the fact that in situ, contrary to industry claims, is not a benign or risk-free extraction method.
Tagged with: devon energy, conklin, pembina
RBC Tables an Offer on Tar Sands
By Brant Olson | Rainforest Action Network
Monday, July 12, 2010
The tar sands tide may finally be turning at Canada’s biggest bank. RBC is among the largest financiers of Canada’s Tar Sands but so far lacks policies adopted by other banks that seek to limit harm to Indigenous rights, water quality and climate.
Tagged with: canada, rbc, unesco, rain forest action network
Dirty Tar Sands Draws Protests Around Nation
By Tony Lallonardo
Thursday, July 08, 2010
"Keep your tar sands in the soil, We don't want your dirty oil," was the chant of protesters outside of the Canadian embassy in Washington as they demanded Canada and the U.S. State Department cancel a proposed massive dirty fuels pipeline.
Tagged with: pipeline, keystone xl, national wildlife federation, secretary of state
U.S. uncertain about oil sands: How should Canada respond?
By Danielle Droitsch
Thursday, July 08, 2010
A vigorous debate is occurring in the U.S. over the use of oil from oil sands and particularly about a proposed pipeline, the Keystone, that would transport that oil from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf coast. As the debate unfolds, an appropriate question to be asking is: How should Canada respond?
Tagged with: keystone xl, secretary of state, oilsandswatch.org, pembina institue
Chair of Energy and Commerce Committee says tar sands pipeline “step in the wrong direction”
By Liz Barratt-Brown’s
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Today, the powerful Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and lead architect of the House’s climate legislation, Congressman Henry Waxman, weighed in on the Keystone XL pipeline in a letter to the State Department Secretary, Hillary Clinton, declaring that building the pipeline “would be a step in the wrong direction” and stating later in his letter that “this pipeline is a multi-billion dollar investment to expand our reliance on the dirtiest source of transportation fuel.” This dirty, high-carbon fuel is derived from tar sands, which are found in Alberta, Canada, underlying an area in the Boreal forest, wetlands, and peatlands about the size of Florida. The extraction, shipping, and refining of the tar sands into a usable product is already devastating the environment in both Canada, and the U.S., and is increasing climate change pollution at a time when we need to be stepping away from dirty fuels and moving towards clean energy solutions.
Tagged with: pipeline, keystone xl, secretary of state, nrdc
We can’t afford bad assessments of tar sands oil pipeline risks
By Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
Monday, July 05, 2010
The public comment period on the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline came to an end on July 2, 2010. The Natural Resources Defense Council joined with the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation, Earthjustice, the Western Organization of Resource Councils and Plains Justice in filing joint comments. Our comments provide detailed reasoning for what we have been saying publicly for some time now about the pipeline and about the draft environmental impact statement: the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline should not be built and the draft environmental impact statement is legally and technically flawed.
Tagged with: pipeline, keystone xl, secretary of state, nrdc
U.S. Congress Waking Up To Another Oil Disaster
By Kenny Bruno
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
On May 27, referring to the BP Deepwater disaster, President Obama said “where I was wrong was in my belief that the oil companies had their act together when it came to worst-case scenarios.” It’s good to have a president who can admit error, but wow, that’s a doozy of a mistaken belief. Unfortunately, there is another worst-case scenario looming, and again Big Oil does not have its act together. It’s the climate crisis. Oil is a major cause of global warming, yet if the industry has its way, the oil market will grow and climate change will accelerate.
Tagged with: climate change, obama, bp, global warming, new energy economy, gulf oil spill
