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Royal Dutch Shell defends Alberta oil sand investments
News Articles | Globe and Mail | Shawn McCarthy | Thursday, March 18, 2010
Report for shareholder critics says oil sands have been hugely profitable for Anglo_dutch energy giant
Canadian Government’s visit to London greeted by Tar Sands protests
Media Releases | Indigenous Environmental Network | Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A high-level delegation from Canada will be greeted tomorrow by protesters with banners that read: “Canadian Tar Sands – Climate Crime”, outside Canada House in Trafalgar Square. The protest, on Thursday 18 March, is part of a growing campaign by UK groups against the tremendous human and ecological devastation caused by extracting oil from Canada's tar sands – and is taking place in solidarity with First Nations and Canadian environmental justice organizations. The Canadian delegation is being hosted by UK Trade and Investment, a government department that exists to promote the interests of British industry.
Sandspit says ‘no’ to Enbridge, Port will wait and see
News Articles | QCI Observer | Alex Rinfret | Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Sandspit has become the first islands community to take a unified stance against the Enbridge pipeline proposal.
UK and North America groups slam Calgary opening of British ‘tar sands’ bank
Media Releases | IEN | Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Treasury grilled in UK Parliament over public money being used by Royal Bank of Scotland to support tar sands development
Does Canada really want to be an energy Superpower?
Opinion | Globe and Mail | Jeff Rubin | Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A lot of things go along with being an energy superpower — a super currency, for example. Eight years ago, when oil cost barely $20 per barrel, the Canadian dollar fell to almost 61 cents against the greenback. With oil now reaching four times that price, the currency is nearly at par with the U.S. dollar, and tomorrow, when oil prices are back in triple-digit range, the Canadian dollar will trade at a healthy premium.
RBS is blinded by its own corporate spin and greenwash
News Articles | The Guardian | Monday, March 15, 2010
You have to feel a bit of sympathy for Andrew Cave, the head of corporate sustainability at the RBS group (Response, 11 March). He berates me for claiming that RBS is involved in financing Canadian tar sand exploitation in Alberta. Sadly for him, the bank then chooses the very day his response is published to announce that it is opening offices in Calgary, the commercial centre of the oil sands industry.
Money spent on tar sands projects could decarbonise western economies
News Articles | The Guardian | Terry Macalister | Monday, March 15, 2010
-Production from tar sands will rise to 4m barrels a day by 2025 -Shareholders seek review of environmental impact of tar sands
Tar sands billions could be better spent
Media Releases | WWF-UK | Monday, March 15, 2010
WWF-UK and The Co-operative have launched a report showing how the massive resources being poured into environmentally damaging tar sands could instead be used to create green energy or to help meet global development goals.
Keystone Approved, Opposition to Enbridge Grows
Media Releases | Dogwood Initiative | Thursday, March 11, 2010
Hundreds of Canadians pledge concrete action to stop West Coast pipeline
Alberta Chamber of Resources says Alberta to change wetlands plan
News Articles | The Winnipeg Free Press | John Cotter | Thursday, March 11, 2010
EDMONTON - A group representing oilsands and other resource companies says it has convinced the Alberta government to change a plan that would force corporations to spend big money to restore wetlands ruined by mining projects.
BP sambas up with Devon Deal
News Articles | Wall Street Journal | Matthew Curtin | Thursday, March 11, 2010
Part of the transaction involves the $500 million sale of undeveloped oil sand leases in Canada to Devon. Devon is better placed to exploit the resource with a nearby project up and running. The oil-sands joint venture will also supply oil to BP's Whiting refinery just south of the Canadian border, which from 2012 will be to handle heavy crude.
Greenpeace gives Alberta premier photos of ducks in oilsands tailings pond
News Articles | Winnipeg Free Press | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Stelmach raised a few eyebrows when he told reporters earlier in the week that he hadn't seen recently released photos of the 1,600 ducks that died in April 2008 after landing on the sludge ponds.
