Senator John Thune, (Republican-South Dakota) said one of the first acts of the new Senate will be to force President Barack Obama’s hand on the Keystone XL pipeline. The project has been in the works since 2008 and its current version involves a 875-mile pipeline that would run from Morgan, Montana to Steele City, Nebraska. […]
Comment: Perils of OPEC being able to control oil prices
preamble: when it comes to Alberta oil and pipelines you often hear those in favour – especially in the U.S. – saying it’s important to they get their oil from a friendly government rather than relying on those in the Middle East. If you ever wanted proof of that, take a look at what OPEC […]
Comment: Compromise needed on Keystone XL
In mid November by a margin of one vote, the U.S. Senate rejected a bill to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to cross the Canada-U.S. border and bring tar sands oil in Canada to refineries in Texas. I am an environmentalist and firmly believe that this is the wrong decision. I do not believe this because […]
Comment: Which better represents an oil spill?
When it comes to oil spills, how would you like to see them reported? Some media outlets use litres, while others go with the measurement common to the industry – barrels. This months oil spill at a Canadian Natural Resources Ltd site in northern Alberta near Red Earth has been reported in both. Something that is not […]
Comment: Opposition to oilsands pipelines is having an impact
The grassroots resistance against the Alberta oil sands and its pipelines is having an impact. A recent publication by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, titled “Material Risks: How Public Accountability is Slowing Tar Sands Development,” stated production revenues from the oil sands were down $30.9 billion between 2010 to 2013. It also […]
Comment: Remove oil train threat
Twelve or 13 oil trains destined for points north rumble through Vancouver weekly. If the fossil fuel industry is permitted to build all its proposed Washington terminals, 72-80 oil trains will pass through weekly — a six-fold increase in pollution, congestion, risk of fire, explosion, environmental destruction. One terminal is proposed for Vancouver, three in […]
Comment: No fracking = no money
Nova Scotia certainly isn’t rolling in dough. The Maritime province has a higher unemployment rate than the national average. It’s also a “have-not” province on the equalization payment grid. That isn’t stopping them from putting the lid on one potential source of revenue. In September, Energy Minister Andrew Younger stated the province will ban hydraulic […]
Comment: Oil – a financial cure?
Austerity is in the air and there is much grieving and gnashing of teeth across the land. I understand the anger of the municipal workers. But I also understand the anger of the average taxpayer. Most of us don’t have a gold-plated pension plan like they do. And if things stay as they are, there […]
Comment: Hypocrisy at the EU
Environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic are aghast at the news the European Union (EU) is proposing to scrap a mandatory requirement to label tar sands crude as highly polluting. It’s a triumph of five years of lobbying by both the tar sands industry and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which […]
Comment: Greenpeace and the environmentalists war on capitalism
I wonder whether Shell has sacked whichever pillock (defn: one who has done a stupid act) who advised them to sponsor the Guardian‘s ferociously anti-fossil fuel, anti-capitalist, anti-Shell Environment pages? Knowing the craven, slippery, self-hating ways of Big Oil as I do, I’m guessing probably not. In fact it’s quite possible, he (or she?) helped […]
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