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Everyone should do his bit
By Alan Septoff
Monday, August 03, 2009
Why won't Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach? [image after the jump]
Tagged with: climate change, forestethics, ed stelmach
Please help us Mrs. Nixon
By Alan Septoff
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
With online videos and banner hangs, the Rainforest Action Network today asked Janet Nixon, the wife of the president of the Royal Bank of Canada, to help convince her husband to stop underwriting dirty oil sands development: pleasehelpusmrsnixon.com RBC is one of the largest financiers of oil sands extraction -- the dirtiest project on Earth.
Tagged with: rainforest action network, rbc
Clinton’s Big Decision on Tar Sands
By Kenny Bruno
Friday, July 24, 2009
Today, during the DC morning rush hour, activists with the Avaaz Action Factory headed to the State Department equipped with a kiddie pool of tar sands mixture, and a big banner stating: “Clinton be a Leader. Say No to Tar Sands, Stop Global Warming.” About 1000 State Department employees walked by a battle between Super Climate Clinton and the Tar Sands Monster on their way to work.
Tagged with: state department, hillary clinton, washington d.c., dc action factory, avaaz
Alberta Protests: Others Almost As Dirty As We
By Kenny Bruno
Friday, July 24, 2009
In the wake of accusations that tar sands oil is the dirtiest on earth, The Government of Alberta set out to prove that other oils, such as oil from Nigeria where natural gas is burned in wasteful disregard for public health, are just as dirty. The problem? It turns out that tar sands really are the highest carbon emitting oil of all!
Tagged with: pembina institute, sierra club canada, aeri, methodology
UK’s Ethical Consumer launches oil sands boycott campaign
By Alan Septoff
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Ethical Consumer, billed as the United Kingdom's leading alternative consumer organization, has launched an oil sands boycott campaign.
Tagged with: boycott, united kingdom, ethical consumer
Canada’s Michael Ignatieff is stuck in the tar sands
By Alan Septoff
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The Polaris Institute's Tar Sands Watch campaign is urging people to help Michael Ignatieff get "unstuck" from the tar sands. Ignatieff, the leader of Canada's Liberal Party and therefore the head of the opposition to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, has perplexed some by supporting increased oil sands development even as its environmental and climatological costs have become starkly clear.
Tagged with: polaris institute, michael ignatieff
Work with State Agencies in Advance on New Oil Sands Pipeline Proposals
By Mark Trechock, Dakota Resource Council
Friday, July 03, 2009
The Keystone pipeline is part of the expanding spiderweb of dirty oil sands pipelines that slowly but surely is increasing the United States dependence on the dirtiest oil currently produced. Keystone got some well-deserved negative press in North Dakota June 16 when Kevin Bonham of the Grand Forks Herald published a story entitled "Sinkholes surface along Keystone route."
Tagged with: keystone, dakota resource council
Hillary’s Choice: dirty oil sands or the new energy economy
By Kenny Bruno
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Hillary Clinton is about to face a surprisingly important decision in her short career as Secretary of State, and it's not about Iran, North Korea or Pakistan. It's about oil. Dirty oil from Canada.
Tagged with: pipeline, alberta clipper, hillarys choice
