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No new oil sands emissions rules this year: Peter Kent
News Articles Featured | National Post | Monday, September 19, 2011
Ottawa will not bring out new rules for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil sands this year, contrary to what Environment Minister Peter Kent said in May.
Pipeline to prosperity or channel to catastrophe?
News Articles Featured | Globe and Mail | Friday, September 16, 2011
There are countless little brooks and rivulets garlanding the islands and inlets of the Great Bear Rainforest in remote northern British Columbia, many without even a name. But the salmon know them well, and return each September, paddling relentlessly against the current, leaping over rocks and little waterfalls, shedding their skin and dying from the outside in to give life to another generation.Because salmon are the keystone to this ecosystem’s food chain, many never make it back to their birthplaces to spawn. At this time of year, the banks of the streams are littered with salmon carcasses and splayed guts like the remains of some grisly bacchanal. Many are tidily decapitated and otherwise fully intact, because the local wolf packs feed only on the heads.
Former premier Peter Lougheed raises job fears over Keystone pipeline plan
News Articles Featured | Calgary Herald | Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The divisions between original Progressive Conservatives and the next generation of Tory leaders was on full display Tuesday as former premier Peter Lougheed said he doesn’t agree with shipping refinery jobs down south — specifically through the Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S.
Daryl Hannah’s ‘dirty’ talk has Brad Wall evangelizing ethical oil
News Articles Featured | Globe and Mail | Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Brad Wall is taking on Al Gore and Daryl Hannah in their own country.
Enbridge misses river cleanup deadline as more oil discovered
News Articles Featured | Calgary Herald | Friday, September 09, 2011
Pockets of submerged oil have been discovered in a Michigan river one year after an Enbridge Inc. pipeline ruptured, forcing the Calgarybased company to miss a key cleanup deadline set by U.S. regulators.
Alberta must clean up oilsands or risk U.S. markets: Morton
News Articles Featured | Edmonton Journal | Friday, September 09, 2011
EDMONTON - Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Ted Morton says if Alberta doesn’t clean up its act in the oilsands, Ottawa will step in to regulate and Americans will stop buying the province’s energy.
Pipeline Spills Put Safeguards Under Scrutiny
News Articles Featured | New York Times | Friday, September 09, 2011
DENVER — This summer, an Exxon Mobil pipeline carrying oil across Montana burst suddenly, soiling the swollen Yellowstone River with an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude just weeks after a company inspection and federal review had found nothing seriously wrong.
First nations group rejects pipeline ownership offer
News Articles Featured | Vancouver Sun | Friday, September 09, 2011
A key first nations group has rejected Enbridge's offer to give aboriginal groups a 10-per-cent ownership stake in the proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline.
Oilsands losing PR war, says energy pioneer
News Articles Featured | Calgary Sun | Thursday, September 08, 2011
The energy industry and its government supporters are being outgunned by environmentalists targeting the oilsands, said one of the project’s pioneering proponents.
Who’s Behind New Pro-Oil Sands Ad Blitz?
News Articles Featured | TheTyee.ca | Thursday, September 08, 2011
Late last August, EthicalOil.org began running a 30 second TV advertisement on the Oprah Winfrey Network in Canada, chastising America's dependence on Saudi Arabian oil.
Landowners: DEQ is “Last Hope” for Keystone XL Safety Plan
News Articles Featured | Public News Service | Thursday, September 08, 2011
CIRCLE, Mont. - Thirty-four landowners who will see the proposed Keystone XL pipeline cross their properties are looking to Montana Department of Environmental Quality director Richard Opper as their "last hope." They've sent a letter asking for safety requirements before the state approves the pipeline.
Government promise to restrict bitumen exports falls by wayside
News Articles Featured | Vancouver Sun | Wednesday, September 07, 2011
OTTAWA — The Harper government has quietly buried a controversial promise to ban bitumen exports to countries that are environmental laggards, as Alberta and the energy industry formalize plans to ship oilsands product to lucrative Asian markets.
