TransCanada, a multinational energy firm, is bullying landowners in a proposed dirty oil sands pipeline's path through America's heartland. They're acting like they have permit... when they don't. As this letter reveals, TransCanada is threatening to condemn landowners' property via eminent domain -- if they don't sell at TransCanada's price.
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Gulf Spill Commentary
The BP Deepwater disaster has unleashed a torrent of commentary about dirty oil, including dirty oil sands crude. Here we’ve gathered some of the most interesting…
- Obama and the oil spill — New York Times/Thomas Friedman
- Gulf spill is a wake up call to stop dirty, dangerous and expensive fuels such as tar sands oil — NRDC
- Oil disaster doesn’t mean we should switch to other dirty fuels — Sierra Club
- Canada’s tar sands: a dangerous solution to offshore oil — guardian.co.uk
- Gulf spill spells bad news for [oil sands] pipeline — Pembina Institute
- Gulf spill exploited to paint oil sands green — Pembina Institute
Oil Sands Blog
Pressure Drops, But Not On Canada
By Kenny Bruno | Wednesday, August 25, 2010
The Enbridge tar sands oil spill in Michigan was a very dark cloud, especially coming on the heels of the BP Deepwater disaster. The on-land and at-sea one-two punch of the BP and Enbridge mega-spills put pressure on the oil company TransCanada to show that, unlike other oil pipelines, its proposed cross-continental Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is safe.
Enbridge issued final notice of trespass by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs
By Tyler McCreary | Wednesday, August 25, 2010
On Tuesday, August 24th, representatives of Enbridge, Michelle Perret and Kevin Brown, received formal notice from Wet'suweten hereditary chiefs Hagwilakw (Antoinette Austin) and Toghestiy (Warner Naziel) that Enbridge was trespassing on unceded Wet'suwet'en lands and did not have permission to build a pipeline on their lands.
