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Oil Change: North America’s oil industry is downsizing
By Alan Septoff
Monday, February 08, 2010
Two stories from Canada’s Globe and Mail this week highlight the emerging reality that the oil industry in North America is downsizing; although the commentary mostly misses the underlying trend that is staring it in the face.
Tagged with: alberta clipper, pipeline, enbridge, suncor, keystone xl, transcanada, peak oil, imperial, oil change international
Oil Change: “Shock waves of anxiety” over Shell’s tar sands move
By Alan Septoff
Friday, January 29, 2010
A few days ago, Shell made news by announcing in the Financial Times that they were scaling back their plans in the Alberta tar sands. That one of the world's largest oil companies sees reason to reduce investment in the tar sands calls into question the long-term profitability of the tar sands. It also weakens arguments that unconventional oil deposits, like the tar sands, are the way to solve U.S. energy security problems.
Tagged with: shell, investor risk, investment, financial times, oil change international
Satellite images of tailings ponds—Environmental Defence
By Alan Septoff
Monday, January 25, 2010
Environmental Defence Canada has posted satellite images published in association with their astonishing report 11 Million Litres a Day: The Tar Sands' Leaking Legacy.
Tagged with: environmental defence, tailings pond leakage
New Science Report - Tar Sands Industry Big Polluter = major oil spill a year
By Lisa McCrummen
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Canada continues to show the world that it will protect Tar Sands at any cost.
Tagged with: suncor, syncrude, water pollution, david schindler, national academy of sciences
The world has lost patience with Canada. Finally.
By Lisa McCrummen
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
George Monbiot, a columnist for the Guardian newspaper and the author of Heat, a bestselling book on climate change spelled it out for the world in his column yesterday: "Canada is now to Climate What Japan is to Whaling." He said that Canada's climate bullying tactics to ensure that it expands its dirty oil that have caused "shock and revulsion everywhere.
Tagged with: copenhagen, whaling
UK Bank & WWF Report: CCS can’t significantly reduce tar sands emissions
By Lisa McCrummen
Monday, October 26, 2009
Today a damning new report from the Co-operative Financial Services and WWF-UK debunks the idea, that carbon capture and storage (CCS) will significantly counter the high levels of greenhouse gases emitted in the production of oil from tar sands deposits in Alberta, Canada.
Tagged with: greenhouse gases, carbon capture and storage, wwf-uk
Global Economic Opinion: Canada’s Oil Sands Even Higher Risk
By Lisa McRummen
Thursday, October 08, 2009
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Lax oversight not enough. Oil sands miners want to skip environmental assessments.
By Alan Septoff
Friday, October 02, 2009
Tagged with: alberta, regulation
Greenpeace shuts down Suncor
By Alan Septoff
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
We have word from Greepeace Canada that 10 activists have successfully shut down two bitumen conveyor belts at Suncor's massive tar sands facility north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Tagged with: greenpeace canada, suncor, fort mcmurray
IPCC to Canada: shut down the tar sands
By Lisa McCrummen
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Yesterday, the head of IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, made a bold statement : Canada's oil sands should be shut down.
Tagged with: national security, ipcc
