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Comment: Maude Barlow on pipelines

February 20, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Your (Regina Leader-Post’s) editorial rightly highlights the danger of transporting oil by rail. But the Energy East pipeline – which would transport 1.1 million barrels of oil per day past the growing Harbour Landing subdivision – is not safer. According to U.S. data, rail incidents happened twice as often as pipeline spills from 2004 to […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: American Association of Railroads, energy, Energy East pipeline, fossil fuel, maud barlow, oil industry, oil sands, pipeline, rail, renewable, tar sands, trains

Comment: “Tar Sands” or “Oil Sands” you decide

February 9, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever watched the opening scene* of the 1981 Canadian horror movie called Scanners, you know what happens to a typical advocate of wide-open development of Alberta’s vast bituminous sands if you happen to use the term“tar sands.” This makes it almost too much fun not to say “tar sands”every time you have the […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, bitumen, energy, oil sands, tar sands

David Schindler weighs in on Roland Hall’s recent oil sands study

February 2, 2015 by Evan Leave a Comment

In our last podcast we told you about a study done by scientist Roland Hall suggesting that the oil sands industry is not polluting the Athabasca river and delta. Not surprisingly the conclusions have been met with a healthy measure of skepticism by some. One of those people is David Schindler. An acclaimed scientist in […]

Filed Under: iKanMedia TV, Video Tagged With: athabasca, david schindler, oil sands, pollution, study, tar sands

Roland Hall found some interesting results in Alberta’s Oil Sands

January 30, 2015 by Evan Leave a Comment

Filed Under: iKanMedia TV, Video Tagged With: athabasca, clean, oil sands, pollution, research, tar sands, water

Review of oil sands ops not needed

January 29, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

It was a unanimous decision. NAFTA’s North American Free Trade Agreement) environmental commission will not be looking into the oil sands tailings ponds.  The decision came despite the fact staff with NAFTA’s Commission on Environmental Co-operation (CEC) recommended doing the opposite. In a written ruling, the CEC stated the reason there will not be an investigation is because of […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Environment Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, CEC, Commission on Environmental Co-operation, Dale Marshall, Environmental Defence, NAFTA, oil sands, tailings pond, tar sands

Independent numbers indicate oil sands may have a wider benefit for Canada

December 9, 2014 by Evan Leave a Comment

Peter Howard, President of the Canadian Energy Research Institute discusses their report on the oil sands, and what the independent data they utilized indicates.

Filed Under: iKanMedia TV, Video Tagged With: Canadian economy, careers, oil sands, tar sands

One researcher’s innovative tailings pond solution is getting some attention

October 21, 2014 by Evan Leave a Comment

Rob chats with University of Alberta Professor Mohamed Gamal El-Din about their research into faster, better tailings pond reclamation.

Filed Under: iKanMedia TV, News, Video Tagged With: Alberta oil sands, Innovation, mining, Mohamed Gamal El-Din, tailings pond reclamation, tar sands, University of Alberta

Comment: Hypocrisy at the EU

October 17, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, CAPP, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Environmentalist, EU, European Union, Greg Stringham, Julie Gelfand, oil sands, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, tar sands

Campaign pushes for stiffer penalties in environmental disasters

October 16, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

A global campaign to make “ecocide” a crime under international law is an attempt to outlaw the worst kinds of environmental destruction. A grassroots movement called End Ecocide on Earth is seeking to have the wholesale destruction of ecosystems ranked alongside offences such as genocide and war crimes. The International Criminal Court (ICC) would then […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Environment, International, News Tagged With: Alberta, ecocide, End Ecocide on Earth, fracking, global campaign, oil sands, tar sands, United Nations

Oil sands product finds way into Europe

October 16, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

The European Commission released a proposal requiring energy suppliers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 6 percent by 2020 as well as disclose those products’ greenhouse gas emissions. That falls short of a previous plan that would have labeled fuels from oil sands processed in Canada and elsewhere as “dirty.” “It is […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, International, News Tagged With: Alberta, Canada’s environment commissione, Connie Hedegaard, EU members, European Commission, European Union, greenhouse gas emission, Julie Gelfand, oil sands, tar sands, Western Canadian heavy crude

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