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Energy giants battle over costs of oil sands pipeline
News Articles Featured | Globe and Mail | Nathan VanderKlippe | Thursday, February 04, 2010
Suncor and Imperial Oil launch legal effort in the U.S. against Enbridge over new pipeline that they say is not needed and will increase tolls
U.S. warned not to punish oilsands
News Articles | Canwest News Service | Sheldon Alberts | Thursday, February 04, 2010
Canadian ambassador Gary Doer cautioned United States policy-makers on Wednesday against imposing punitive climate-change measures against Alberta's oilsands. Doer said Ottawa's decision to adopt identical greenhouse-gas emissions targets has strengthened Canada's opposition to American states planning to target carbon-intensive fuels.
Canada should take page out of South Korea’s green playbook
Opinion | Toronto Star | Keith Stewart | Thursday, February 04, 2010
We're falling behind on building a national strategy that will set the table for a low-carbon economy
Demand for oil will peak by 2030 – BP chief
News Articles | news.scotsman.com | Alastair Dalton | Wednesday, February 03, 2010
GLOBAL demand for oil will peak within the next two decades, the chief executive of Europe's largest oil company has said.
Martin: Ottawa fires warning past oilsands
News Articles | Calgary Herald | Don Martin | Tuesday, February 02, 2010
In the fight against climate change, doing nothing may yet become an option for Canada.
Oil demand has peaked in developed world: IEA
News Articles Featured | Reuters | Friday, January 29, 2010
Oil use in rich industrialized countries will never return to 2006 and 2007 levels because of more fuel efficiency and the use of alternatives, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.
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News Articles | Alex Lawler | Financial Post | Thursday, January 28, 2010
Oil demand has peaked in developed world, IEA says
Shock waves of anxiety” over Shell’s tar sands move
News Articles | Lorne Stockman | Oil Change International | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Remarks made by Shell CEO, Peter Voser to the Financial Times Energy Editor that his company has “clearly scaled down” its plans for a massive expansion of tar sands production should send waves of anxiety through the Canadian oil industry and a serious rethink among energy security hawks in Washington.
Court asked to overturn air permit for SD refinery
News Articles | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Chet Brokaw | Tuesday, January 26, 2010
PIERRE, S.D. -- Three groups opposed to a $10 billion oil refinery planned for southeastern South Dakota have asked a judge to overturn a state board's decision to grant the project an air quality permit.
Outspoken chief was once ‘quiet kid’
News Articles | Edmonton Journal | Monday, January 25, 2010
George Poitras looked out the window of his Fort McMurray office and saw opportunity. Outside the restaurant across the street was Premier Ed Stelmach's face beaming at him from the side of a bus.
Shell to look beyond tar sands
News Articles Featured | Financial Times | Ed Crooks | Sunday, January 24, 2010
Royal Dutch Shell’s expansion in Canada’s controversial tar sands will be “very much slower” than in recent years, the company’s new chief executive has said, as the group makes a strategic shift away from high-cost “unconventional” oil production.
Pembina report faults pipeline to West Coast
News Articles | Calgary Herald | Shaun Polczer | Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Oilsands line would have 'upstream impacts'
Manufacturing in trouble? You can thank the tar sands
Opinion | Toronto Star | Gillian McEachern | Monday, January 18, 2010
Hitching the economy to dirty oil production turns our dollar into a petro-loonie, which hurts manufacturing
B.C. aboriginal group says review process for pipeline doesn’t recognize rights
News Articles | Canadian Press | Lauren Krugel | Monday, January 18, 2010
Shell faces shareholder revolt over Canadian tar sands project
News Articles Featured | guardian.co.uk | Terry Macalister | Monday, January 18, 2010
Shell under attack from shareholders
News Articles | Interactive Investor | Fiona Bond | Monday, January 18, 2010
BC First Nation Puts Albertan, Asian Oil Companies On Notice
Media Releases | Office of the Wet'suewet'en | Friday, January 15, 2010
Canada should consider slowing oil sands boom: official
News Articles Featured | Agence France Presse | Friday, January 15, 2010
OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada should consider reining in development of its booming oil sands, the world's second largest reserve behind Saudi Arabia, Alberta's new energy minister said in an interview published Friday.
Enbridge shuts line on Canada-US oil route after leak
News Articles | Reuters | Paritosh Bansal | Sunday, January 10, 2010
Oil supplies rerouted after 440,000 bpd Line 2b halted
Environmental impact study on Alberta oilsands slanted toward big oil: federal documents
News Articles | Mike De Souza | Canwest News Service | Thursday, January 07, 2010
OTTAWA — Newly released federal documents have revealed some potentially inconvenient truths about the environmental impact of Alberta's oilsands industry, along with the risks and economic costs of the Harper government's climate change strategy.
U.S. carbon rules pose oil sands hurdles
News Articles Featured | Globe and Mail | Shawn McCarthy | Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Eleven American states join push to develop a common low-carbon fuel standard
Conservative MP dismisses human role in climate change
News Articles | Jill Mahoney | The Globe and Mail | Friday, December 18, 2009
An environmental group releases e-mails in which British Columbia MP Colin Mayes says “a few scientists” believe carbon dioxide is causing global warming
Harper fails Canada and planet Copenhagen summit
Opinion | National Union of Public and General Employees | Friday, December 18, 2009
'Our image and reputation have taken a beating thanks to the Harper government's foot-dragging and stubborn refusal to change its weak emission-reduction targets.' - James Clancy.
Leaked UN report shows cuts offered at Copenhagen would lead to 3C rise
News Articles | The Guardian | Suzanne Goldberg | Friday, December 18, 2009
UN secretariat initial draft shows gap of up to 4.2 gigatonnes of CO2 between present pledges and cuts required to limit rise to 2C
CLIMATE CHANGE: No Real Deal, and No Exit
Opinion | Stephen Leahy | IPS/TerraViva | Friday, December 18, 2009
COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 (IPS) - The roof of our house is on fire but our leaders, our economic system and we ourselves are ignoring the alarms and continuing to add more fuel. There are no exit doors in our house; there is nowhere else to go. Dangerous climate change is already here.
At Copenhagen, Canada cannot put the tar sands ahead of the environment
Opinion | straight.com | Gwynne Dyer | Thursday, December 17, 2009
The Copenhagen talks on climate change are going badly, which doubtless pleases the federal government. It thinks a weak agreement or none at all will serve Canada’s economic interests better. It is wrong.
Oil sands pushing for regulatory relief
News Articles | Shawn McCarthy | The Globe and Mail | Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Canadian companies seek exemptions similar to what Washington is giving to U.S. coal
Corporate Canada cast as the villain at Copenhagen
News Articles Opinion | telegraph.co.uk | Rowena Mason | Tuesday, December 15, 2009
CLIMATE PROTESTORS SCALE CANADIAN EMBASSY AND DEFACE FLAG
Media Releases | U.K. Climate Camp | Tuesday, December 15, 2009
At 8am this morning three climate activists scaled the entrance to the Canadian High Commission in Grosvenor Square, cutting loose the Canadian flag. They will then dunk the flag into crude oil while unfurling a banner reading “Shut Down the Tar Sands”. The activists have secured themselves upon the building’s front balcony with one protestor super-glued to the window such that it cannot be opened. This is the second action in London on Tar Sands in two day, and is part of a growing international campaign [1].
Canada still target of pranks, protests
News Articles | Cnews | Tuesday, December 15, 2009
COPENHAGEN -- The U.S. activist-prankster group The Yes Men are suggesting they are not done with Canada just yet
First Nations Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Stephen Harper
Media Releases | Indigenous Environmental Network | Monday, December 14, 2009
Canadian First Nations at COP 15 Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Stephen Harper in Rally at Canadian Embassy
"Hey Harper: Climate Commitments = Shut Down Tar Sands”
Canada ranks low on annual climate change report card
News Articles | Canwest News Service | Kelly Cryderman | Monday, December 14, 2009
COPENHAGEN -- Canada ranks just ahead of Saudi Arabia when it comes to progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says an annual climate change performance report looking at 57 high-emitting countries.
Canada’s “Mordor” Ensures Climate Treaty Failure
News Articles | TERRAVIVA | Stephen Leahy | Monday, December 14, 2009
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) Climate activists jammed a small square near the police-barricaded Canadian Embassy here Monday for the second day of protests over the country’s tar sands development.
Ontario and Quebec slam Ottawa on climate
News Articles Featured | Toronto Star | Allan Woods | Sunday, December 13, 2009
COPENHAGEN–Just as the federal government was getting comfortable at the delicate climate negotiations taking place in this city, along came Canada's two largest provinces armed with blistering criticism of the country's weak plans to reduce emissions.
Canadians raise climate awareness at country-wide rallies
News Articles | Globe and Mail | Trevor Pritchard | Saturday, December 12, 2009
Environmental activists sing carols, strip to their underwear as part of global day of action
Members of European Parliament appeal to companies to stop tar sand business
Media Releases News Articles | | Friday, December 11, 2009
A group of 11 MEPs, representing three political groups and seven countries, is today appealing to the leaders of four European oil companies to stop producing oil from Canadian tar sands, a process causing 2-3 times more pollution than the production of conventional oil.
American and Canadian Youth Stand Together Against Tar Sands
Media Releases News Articles | | Friday, December 11, 2009
No Concessions for Dirty Oil
Canada mocked and praised at Copenhagen
News Articles | Kelly Cryderman | The Calgary Herald | Friday, December 11, 2009
COPENHAGEN — At a small booth in the Copenhagen conference centre, a colourful scoreboard shows Canada has already racked up two Fossil Awards — sardonic nods to countries judged by a coalition of environmental groups to have performed the worst during any given day of climate negotiations.
Ottawa plays foul with number game
News Articles Opinion | Globe and Mail | Eric Reguly | Thursday, December 10, 2009
Canada's emissions have been soaring and it's easier to cut from a high level than a low level
Canada: Protests condemn climate crimes
News Articles | Green Left Weekly | Roger Annis | Wednesday, December 09, 2009
“Climate Inaction Costs Lives.” That's the message Greenpeace activists delivered during a spectacular protest action in Ottawa on December 7, the opening day of the United Nations’ climate conference in Copenhagen.
No faith in Harper on climate
News Articles | Globe and Mail | Kalli Anderson | Wednesday, December 09, 2009
With the world watching Copenhagen, Quebec's francophone pundits give up hope on the Prime Minister
17 prominent Canadians to advise Canada at greenhouse talks
News Articles | Calgary Herald | Kelly Cryderman | Wednesday, December 09, 2009
COPENHAGEN — Canada's ambassador to the United States and a famous television contractor are among 17 prominent Canadians federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice has recruited to help advise him during environmental negotiations here in the Danish capital.
Little First Nations band a *threat to the oil industry* says former Harper aide
News Articles | EDI Weekly | Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Canadian youth protest tarsands in Copenhagen
News Articles | CBC News | Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Dozens of Canadian youth at the United Nations' climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, led a protest against the Alberta oilands on Wednesday, calling for a moratorium on further oilsands development.
Oilpatch CEO buys ad calling climate change a ‘scam’ Debate heats up as Copenhagen summit takes ho
News Articles | Richard Cuthbertson | The Calgary Herald | Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Debate heats up as Copenhagen summit takes hold
Alberta faces ‘tough crowd’ in attempt at image makeover
News Articles | Katherine O'Neill | The Globe and Mail | Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Alberta's environment minister will head to Copenhagen to argue the province is a responsible global energy producer
Country takes verbal lashing for inaction on climate change
News Articles | Bob Weber and Mike De Souza | The Winnipeg Free Press | Wednesday, December 09, 2009
A Damaging study on Alberta's oilsands. A brazen protest by Greenpeace. A sobering poll and massive petition. Criticism from around the world. The heat was on the Harper government Monday over its climate-change position as a major United Nations conference began in Copenhagen.
Harper dubbed climate crook
News Articles | Peter Zimonjicz | National Bureau | Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Protesters call Canada "Fossil of the Day" for stand in Copenhagen
Canada, not Copenhagen, hit by protests over climate policy
News Articles | MongaBay.com | Jeremy Hance | Tuesday, December 08, 2009
While tens of thousands of protestors have gone to Copenhagen to call on world governments to do more to fight against climate change, the most surprising protest on the first day of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen occurred thousands of miles away: in Canada.
Investors Voice Opposition to High-Carbon Fuel Policy
Media Releases News Articles | Green Century Funds | Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Washington, DC- A group of financial services organizations and shareholder advocacy groups representing approximately $127.5 billion in assets under management announces today its opposition to financially risky carbon-intensive fuels, such as tar sands, coal-to-liquid, and oil shale, in a letter to U.S. Senators debating the climate bill.
Oil sands emissions polluting waterways, study finds
News Articles | Martin Mittelstaedt | The Globe and Mail | Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Toxic emissions from industry are equal to one major oil spill every year, independent report suggests
Neither Canada nor the world can afford growth of dirty oil
Opinion | The Star | Matt Price | Monday, December 07, 2009
Today in Copenhagen, the Harper government will walk into the UN climate summit not with the intention of transitioning Canada into a clean energy economy, but instead with the agenda of prolonging the oil industry frenzy in the tar sands in northern Alberta.
‘Dirty’ image puts Canada in climate doghouse at Copenhagen
News Articles | The Globe and Mail | Eric Reguly and Nathan Vanderklippe | Sunday, December 06, 2009
While it has its defenders, home of the oil sands must prove it can be part of the solution as global summit set to begin
The changing climate and Canadian realities
Opinion | The Globe and Mail | Saturday, December 05, 2009
It's time for a new national project: to make Canada a clean-energy superpower
Review process for Enbridge Northern Gateway Project subject to ongoing opposition & controversy
Media Releases | West Coast Environmental Law | Friday, December 04, 2009
Vancouver – The months of opposition and controversy that have dogged federal government plans to conduct an environmental assessment and regulatory review the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project will not be quelled by the terms of reference released today by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and National Energy Board.
Federal Government Turns a Blind Eye To Enbridge Pipeline’s Potential Impacts
Media Releases | ForestEthics | Friday, December 04, 2009
Review process ignores climate impacts and has historically approved 99% of projects
Enridge project’s potential hazards making opponents edgy
News Articles | The Vancouver Sun | Barbara Yaffe | Thursday, December 03, 2009
Environmental activists try to turn off the oilsands taps by targeting pipeline carrying oil from Alberta to Pacific for transit to Asia
Canada Blocking Global Climate Progress to Protect Dirty Oil Sands Environmental Groups Launch Video
Media Releases Featured | Dirty Oil Sands Network | Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Climate Activists Won’t Be Silent on Canada’s Inaction on Climate Disaster.
CANADA’S OIL SANDS: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS FOR INVESTORS
Media Releases | Ceres | Monday, November 30, 2009
Company actions to manage and disclose environmental and social risks from vast oil extraction undertaking fall short of what investors want
Canada’s image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling
Opinion Featured | guardian.co.uk | George Monbiot | Monday, November 30, 2009
The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen
Global coalition demands Canada’s suspension from the Commonwealth on climate grounds
Media Releases | Greenpeace New Zealand | Friday, November 27, 2009
A coalition of prominent figures from the developing world have joined a former UK development minister, a UN scientist and British environment and development groups to demand the suspension of Canada from the commonwealth for its record on climate change.
Environment Canada probes water contamination at oilsands
News Articles | Mike De Souza | Canwest News Service | Friday, November 27, 2009
OTTAWA — Environment Canada is investigating whether toxins from oilsands operations in Alberta are contaminating groundwater and surface water in the Athabasca region, Canwest News Service has learned.
Oil sands threaten our survival, Al Gore warns
News Articles | Oakland Ross | The Toronto Star | Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Extracting oil from Alberta's tar sands jeopardizes the survival of our species, says Al Gore.
Federal Government Failing to Protect Fresh Water for Tens of Thousands of Canadians
Media Releases | Water Matters | Monday, November 23, 2009
Canada Not Implementing Numerous Legal Obligations That Protect Fresh Water in Oil Sands
Feds failing in duty to protect water from oilsands development: Report
News Articles | Mike De Souza | Canwest News Service | Monday, November 23, 2009
OTTAWA — The Harper government is failing to enforce federal law and exercise its constitutional authority in at least 10 different aspects of monitoring the exploitation of Alberta’s oilsands and its impact on water, says a new report to be released Monday.
Fury over RBS ‘tar sands’ plan
News Articles | AOL News | Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Environmental campaigners are joining three indigenous Canadian women at the Royal Bank of Scotland's London headquarters to protest against the bank's investment in the unconventional fossil fuel known as "tar sands".
Indigenous Canadians deliver message to RBS and the Treasury: “Stop funding bloody oil!”
Media Releases | Indigenous Environmental Network | Monday, November 16, 2009
New research shows that publicly-owned RBS is the UK bank most heavily involved in financing the Tar Sands.
Canadian protest over RBS oil sands role
News Articles | Ed Crooks | Financial Times | Monday, November 16, 2009
Royal Bank of Scotland and the government, which holds 70 per cent of the bank’s shares, will be targeted by protests this week from Canadian aboriginal groups aiming to stop RBS lending to companies that invest in oil sands extraction in western Canada.
Canadians tour U.K. to raise oilsands awareness
News Articles | CBC News | Sunday, November 15, 2009
Three aboriginal women from Canada are visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of a 10-day tour to raise awareness around human rights issues occurring in the Alberta tarsands.
Climate-change debate dominates APEC forum
News Articles | The Globe and Mail | Saturday, November 14, 2009
Harper says developing countries must be front-and-centre in global plan while critics say Canada's poor record has cost it credibility on world stage
‘Oil sands?’ Bite your tongue
News Articles | Carrie Tait | Financial Post | Friday, November 13, 2009
First they were tar sands. Then they were oil sands. Now? Enhanced oil projects. At least according to En-Cana Corp. and its oil-sands spinoff, Cenovus Energy Inc.
Eni’s new energy projects threaten congo rainforest
Media Releases | Oilwatch Africa | Monday, November 09, 2009
Plans by oil company Eni to develop tar sands and oil palm in the Congo Basin risk irreversible damage to biodiversity, local communities and our climate, and break the company’s own guidelines, according to Congolese human rights organisations and their international partners. In a report published today, Energy Futures? Eni’s Investments in tar sands and palm oil in the Congo Basin, the groups argue that given their potential for local harm and their huge carbon footprint, such investments should be considered too high risk for Eni or any other energy company1.
Doctor cleared over suggested link between cancer, oilsands
News Articles | Edmonton Journal | Florence Loyie | Saturday, November 07, 2009
Charge of 'causing undue alarm' in Fort Chipewyan dropped
International study pans subsidies for oilsands
News Articles | Canwest News Service | Mike De Souza | Thursday, November 05, 2009
OTTAWA — Canadian government policies figure prominently among the environmental "tops" and "flops" in a ranking of about 100 economic measures from around the world.
Expert: Protect soil in pipeline work
News Articles | The Daily Republic| Bob Mercer | Wednesday, November 04, 2009
PIERRE — State officials should direct TransCanada to pay special attention to protection and reclamation of the widely varying types of soils and vegetation along the proposed route of its Keystone XL oil pipeline through western South Dakota, a soils scientist said Tuesday.
SD ranchers voice concerns about Keystone pipeline
News Articles | Associated Press | Chet Brokaw | Tuesday, November 03, 2009
PIERRE, S.D. — Ranchers who live along the route of a crude oil pipeline that TransCanada Keystone wants to build across western South Dakota said Tuesday they are worried about oil spills and damage to their land, water and roads.
Landowner stands up to TransCanada
News Articles | Aberdeen News | John Harter | Sunday, November 01, 2009
My name is John Harter; I am one of the landowners being crossed by the TransCanada KXL pipeline. I am writing in response to the Oct. 7 article by Bob Mercer regarding the PUC proceedings on TransCanada's permit application.
National Post editorial board: Pipeline to nowhere
News Articles | National Post | Wednesday, October 28, 2009
If the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline doesn’t make economic sense without a massive infusion of federal cash, then the federal government is right to have killed the deal by rejecting a multi-billion-dollar investment in the project. Still, this cannot be the end of the issue: If the principle at play here is that our government won’t fund otherwise unviable projects, why has it invested billions in badly run car companies and other questionable stimulus projects?
Thirst for oil poses threat to US national security, says military adviser
News Articles Featured | Guardian (UK) | Suzanne Goldenberg | Wednesday, October 28, 2009
America's thirst for oil is a gathering threat to its national security – and the risk will grow further as the world's population touches 7 billion, a military adviser to the Pentagon told the Senate today.
Alberta-Superior pipeline takes center stage in world climate debate
Featured | Business North | Richard Thomas | Tuesday, October 27, 2009
On Aug. 20, the U.S. State Department granted a Presidential permit for the 1,000-mile “Alberta Clipper” pipeline from Canada’s Alberta oil sands to Superior, due for completion in mid-2010.
U.K. study casts cloud over carbon capture
News Articles | By Dina O'Meara | Calgary Herald | Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Emissions cut won't erase oilsands impact
DAKOTA RURAL ACTION MEMBERS TO ATTEND PUC PUBLIC HEARING
Media Releases | Dakota Rural Action | Tuesday, October 27, 2009
PIERRE – Members of Dakota Rural Action, a South Dakota family agriculture and conservation group, will be taking part in a special public input hearing to be held by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission on November 3, in Pierre. The hearing is open to the public.
Oil sands industry tries to move past the ducks
News Articles | The Globe and Mail | Monday, October 26, 2009
Marcel Coutu, CEO of Canadian Oil Sands Trust, discusses the price of oil and the environment
Of Alberta’s Oil Sands and ‘Harmonizing’ Canadian and U.S. Climate Policy
News Articles | John Lorinc | The New York Times | Monday, October 26, 2009
In the run-up to December’s global climate change meeting, fissures are emerging between Canada and the United States over how to deal with the internationally contentious issue of Alberta’s vast oil sands projects, which have been responsible for a sharp increase in Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon capture and storage cannot significantly reduce tar sands emissions says new report
Media Releases | The Co-operative Group | Monday, October 26, 2009
The study produced by The Co-operative Financial Services and WWF-UK debunks the idea, lauded by oil companies and the Canadian government, 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.
U.S. ambassador talks oilsands with Alberta premier, conservationists
News Articles | John Cotter | The Canadian Press | Monday, October 26, 2009
EDMONTON - The new U.S. ambassador to Canada sat down for breakfast Monday with a conservation group and Alberta's oilsands were on the menu.
Ottawa dashes hope for climate treaty in Copenhagen
News Articles | Shawn McCarthy | The Globe and Mail | Friday, October 23, 2009
Best possible outcome of climate talks is smoother path to later deal, Prentice says
Research Documents Pollution from Alberta’s Tar Sands
Media Releases | Global Forest Watch Canada | Thursday, October 22, 2009
and Calls for the Urgent Attention of the World's Scientific Community
Are oil sands in crosshairs of Obama plan?
News Articles | Shawn McCarthy | The Globe and Mail | Thursday, October 22, 2009
Cap-and-trade legislation could pose serious problems for producers as U.S. spends billions to end reliance on 'dirty' oil
Good BP permit will be good for region
Opinion | Rich Jackson | Gary Post-Tribune | Wednesday, October 21, 2009
In August 2008, I sat at a table with Gov. Mitch Daniels, who'd come to visit the Post-Tribune Editorial Board.
Environmentalists vow to halt BP construction
News Articles | Gitte Laasby | Gary Post-Tribune | Wednesday, October 21, 2009
MERRILLVILLE -- BP could be forced to halt construction on its Whiting refinery if the company and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management lowballed air pollution as much as environmentalists allege
EPA objects to BP air permit
News Articles | NWI Times | Tuesday, October 20, 2009
State must re-evaluate emissions calculations as Whiting refinery expansion continues
EPA: BP permit must be rewritten
News Articles | Gitte Laasby | Gary Post-Tribune | Tuesday, October 20, 2009
State may not have fully assessed new emissions
Companies, Environmental Organizations Work Together to Outline Key Elements of Cap-and-Trade Design
Media Releases | The Pembina Institute | Direct Energy | Environmental Defence| Catalyst Paper Corporation | WWF-Canada | Tuesday, October 20, 2009
October 20, 2009 — In a joint statement released today, a unique partnership of industry and environmental organizations have outlined the key elements for an effective Canadian cap-and- trade system for greenhouse gas emissions.
BP chief says oil sands, cap and trade will help - but CCS won’t
News Articles | Carola Hoyos | Financial Times | Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, revealed some of his thinking on the big questions facing the energy industry in a speech this morning. First, he warned policymakers not to dilly dally lest they want to see the return of energy shortages that plagued the UK in the 1970s and California at the turn of this century.
Obama’s EPA cracks down, orders more tests for BP refinery
News Articles | Michael Hawthorne | Chicago Tribune | Tuesday, October 20, 2009
In last months of Bush's administration, agency approved project to upgrade and expand northwest Indiana BP site, one of the largest polluters in the Chicago area
CANADA: Govt Threatens Tar Sands Activists with Anti-Terror Laws
News Articles | Chris Arsenault | IPS | Tuesday, October 20, 2009
VANCOUVER, Oct 20 (IPS) - The provincial government in Alberta, Canada is threatening to unleash its counterterrorism plan if activists continue using civil disobedience to protest the tar sands, Canada's fastest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Chemical firms assail oil sector’s green plan
News Articles | Shawn McCarthy | The Globe and Mail | Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Contend that ‘intensity-based' system for greenhouse gas emissions would create ‘equity issues'
EPA Blocks Air Permit for BP Refinery Expansion
Media Releases | Environmental Law and Policy Center | Monday, October 19, 2009
Agency Decides in Favor of Citizens and Environmental Groups
