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My journey from tar sands consultant to carbon buster
By Peter Nix
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
By 1976, I had finished both grad school and a teaching job in Nigeria. And my best career opportunity appeared to be consulting for the rapidly growing Alberta Tar Sands project. The Suncor environmental manager gave me a $2,000 job to assess the effectiveness of a waste treatment pond. It turned out that the pond did more retention than treatment - an ominous start to 25 years of consulting work.
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No Tar Sands Pipeline Construction Until True Impacts are Clear
By Beth Wallace | National Wildlife Federation
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Last year I learned this lesson the hard way when parts of my hometown were devastated by a massive tar sands (diluted bitumen) pipeline oil spill caused by Enbridge Energy. Before Enbridge realized there was a spill, they had allowed their pipeline to spew nearly 1 million gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River watershed– sickening people, killing wildlife and devastating over 30 miles of river.
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Weekly Tar Sands Update
By Heather Moyer | Sierra Club
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
In tar sands oil news this week, we've got quite a few media hits. Let's start with an arrogant quip from Alberta, Canada, Energy Minister Ron Liepert:
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Hillary Clinton’s State Department Sued Over Failure To Reveal Contacts With TransCanada Lobbyist
By Brendan DeMelle's | DeSmogBlog
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Friends of the Earth, Corporate Ethics International, and the Center for International Environmental Law just filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department and Hillary Clinton (Friends of the Earth v. State Department) over the agency's controversial handling of the Keystone XL pipeline proposal.
Tagged with: keystone xl, state department, hillary clinton, corporate ethics international, friends of the earth, lobbying
Spill Baby Spill? The 5,000 Alberta Oil Spills Industry Would Prefer You Did Not Know About
By Emma Pullman | DeSmogBlog
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Right now, the oil and gas industry is holding its breath as the approval of two major tar sands pipelines hang in the balance. The $13 billion Keystone XL pipeline would significantly increase the Canadian export of of dirty tar sands bitumen to the U.S. by as much as 510,000 barrels a day. And, on this side of the border, the ferociously debated $5.5 billion, 1,170 kilometre Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline would carry dirty tar sands bitumen to Kitimat, B.C., where it would be loaded onto supertankers bound for growing energy markets in Asia.
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On Heels of Spill, Public Hearings for Keystone XL
By Heather Moyer, Sierra Club
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
"They said this could not happen and here it is right here in front of you."
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First Nations Hit Back Against Harper; Say Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Will Be Stopped
By Andrew Frank
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
"We are not in a negotiation. We are not here to get a better bargaining position. We are telling them that the project is not going to proceed within our territory," - Peter Erickson, councilor, Nak'azdli. Credit: Todd Korol / National Post
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What the 21,000 gallon Keystone spill tells us about the safety of tar sands bitumen pipeline
By NRDC blog
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Over the last year we've had many recent indications of the risks of tar sands diluted bitumen pipelines – an 840,000 gallon spill in Michigan, a 250,000 gallon spill outside Chicago, a 1.3 million gallon spill in Alberta, as well as our recent report examining the safety of tar sands pipelines. On May 7, the Keystone tar sands pipeline provided yet another warning when it spilled approximately 21,000 gallons of crude in North Dakota. This is its eleventh and most significant spill.
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Uhhh, About Those Pipeline Safety Claims: Bad week for Canadian Oilies
By NRDC blog
Monday, May 09, 2011
It has been a very bad couple of weeks for the Canadian oil and pipeline industries.
Photos of Alberta pipeline oil spill (Greenpeace)
By Greenpeace
Friday, May 06, 2011
Greenpeace has a photo gallery on its site showing images of the recent Rainbow Pipeline oil spill in Alberta.
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