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Lobbyist appointed as Alberta’s new top energy regulator
By ANDREW NIKIFORUK | THE TYEE
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
The Alberta government has appointed the founding president of the Canada's most powerful oil and gas group as well as an active energy lobbyist to head its new energy regulator. Gerald Protti, a long-time senior executive for Encana from 1995 and 2009, served as the inaugural president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
Tagged with: alberta, oil, big oil, regulation, policy
Tar sands spill in Arkansas is a warning of the risks of tar sands pipelines
By Anthony Swift | Natural Resources Defense Council
Monday, April 01, 2013
On Friday afternoon, Exxon’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured, spilling between 80,000 and 420,000 gallons of tar sands diluted bitumen in a suburban neighborhood in Mayflower, Arkansas. In 2010, a similar tar sands diluted bitumen spill into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River watershed demonstrated that diluted bitumen spills were significantly more challenging to clean up and damaging to the environment, particularly water bodies, than conventional crude.
Tagged with: keystone xl, pipeline, oil spill, keystone, bitumen, spill, impact
Suncor Toxic Spill: A ten hour disaster
By Mike Hudema | Greenpeace Canada
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Yesterday night Suncor admitted that for 10-hrs on Monday, March 25th its pipe gushed, releasing toxic, chemically treated water into the environment and the Athabasca river, the drinking water supply for countless animals, birds and human populations like the downstream community of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.
Tagged with: suncor, athabasca river, spill, contamination, toxic, water
The Dirt :: March 19, 2013
By DirtyOilSands.org
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
In this issue of The Dirt, critics take the Alberta government to task for its inappropriate pro-Keystone ad in the New York Times, Ecojustice asks the Canadian government for a formal investigation into tar sands pollution that may contravene the Fisheries Act, and the environmental community is recognized for its success in the Keystone fight.
Tagged with: the dirt
Enbridge’s Nose Grows a lot Longer
By National Wildlife Federation
Thursday, March 14, 2013
In a recent hearing to determine the fate of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project, Enbridge told regulators, decision makers and the public that tar sands oil floats in water. This is according to an industry backed study conducted in a lab. The large problem for Enbridge is that they can't hide from the real-life facts. Enbridge has the best (and worst) "study" right here in the Kalamazoo River, where they spilled around a million gallons of tar sands crude into Michigan waters. This spill has proven the exact opposite: tar sands oil sinks in fresh water!
Tagged with: pipeline, enbridge, spill, lies, science, dilbit, water
Fact-checking Canada’s record on climate change and the oilsands
By Clare Demerse | Pembina Institute
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
The good news is that the recent visitors — from Premiers Redford and Wall to federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver — now acknowledge that Canada's environmental record is crucial to the upcoming U.S. decision. The bad news is that there are some gaping holes in that record.
Tagged with: climate change, oil sands, lies, policy, facts
The children: Why a generation is putting itself on the line for the climate
By Wen Stephenson | Grist
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
I recently picked up a book that's been sitting in my must-read pile for a long time: David Halberstam's The Children, a remarkable account of the African-American students who began the momentous lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville in February 1960 and went on to risk their lives as Freedom Riders and as movement leaders in Birmingham and Selma. Half a century on, it can be easy to forget that citizens of this country took such risks, and made such sacrifices, in order to gain basic human rights.
Tagged with: climate change, youth, action, resistance, children
The Dirt :: March 12, 2013
By DirtyOilSands.org
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
In this issue of The Dirt, the world's most influential newspaper says no to Keystone XL pipeline, Joe Oliver called out for his truthless tar sands propaganda, and mothers and Methodists hold future funeral at TransCanada offices.
Tagged with: the dirt
The State Department review shows Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not in our national interest
By Susan Casey-Lefkowitz | Natural Resources Defense Council
Monday, March 11, 2013
A deeper dive into the State Department draft environmental review shows that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not needed. The energy security argument for the pipeline, always dubious, has evaporated to the point where even the State Department cannot find a reason to build it.
Tagged with: keystone xl, keystone, jobs, environmental impact statement, emissions, climate, decision
On the wrong track: Rail is not an alternative to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
By Anthony Swift | Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
In its recently released draft environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring tar sands from Canada to the Gulf Coast for export, the State Department attempts to make the case that rail could be a viable alternative. The State Department argued that Keystone XL would have little effect on tar sands production because rail could provide an equally feasible and economic transportation option for tar sands. This is a critical element of the draft environmental review because while State determined that tar sands is dirtier than conventional oil, it concludes that Keystone XL would have little impact on the expansion of tar sands and therefore policymakers and the public needn't consider the impacts of that expansion.
Tagged with: keystone xl, pipeline, keystone, environmental impact statement, rail, alternative
