Tories rewriting safety regs with no input from their own expert panel, says member.
http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/05/31/OilSpillPrevention/index.html
The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact.
The energy crisis outlined in a Joint Operating Environment report from the US Joint Forces Command, comes as the price of petrol in Britain reaches record levels and the cost of crude is predicted to soon top $100 a barrel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/11/peak-oil-production-supply
Vanessa Farquharson,
National Post
Film Review: Petropolis (3 stars)
While the debate over Alberta’s tar sands continues to rage, Toronto filmmaker Peter Mettler offers us a silent, 43-minute montage of aerial shots, taken from a helicopter flying over the Athabasca river, which together make one of the most profound statements on this issue to date.
A complete departure from his previous documentary, Gambling, Gods and LSD, Petropolis is at once a quiet meditation on the transformation of serene forest into industrial nightmare and an unabashedly-presented-by-Greenpeace political statement, soaked in a subtext of shame.
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2469703
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Contribution by Anne Morris
An independent study recently published in the US-based Proceedings of the National Academy of Science suggests that pollution from Alberta’s oilsands is nearly five times greater than industry figures say and twice as widespread. The study says toxic emissions from the oilsands industry are equal to a major oil spill occurring every year. Government and industry officials say contamination in area soils and rivers is natural, but the study links it firmly to oilsands mining. Read the rest of this entry »
Contribution by Anne Morris.
We don’t hear much about the impact on the planet of war and the billions of dollars it consumes. It’s huge!
During the first 5 years of the US war in Iraq, at least 141 million metric tons of carbon dioxide were produced – the equivalent of putting 25 million more cars on the road in the US in one year. The US war in Iraq emits more CO2 annually than 139 of the world’s nations together. And these emissions are unreported because military emissions abroad are not included in the national greenhouse gas inventories submitted annually by industrialized nations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. For more information, see report by Oil Change International. Read the rest of this entry »
By Andrew Nikiforuk, 13 Jan 2010, TheTyee.ca
Investigators won’t succeed by treating rural citizens like Taliban suspects.
(Ludwig arrested in Encana bombings)
How the oil sands made Canada a suburb of Fort McMurray.
B.C.’s oil and gas boom emits a deadly poison. As government trims its watchdogs, labour and health activists cry alarm.
The police drama now unfolding in the rich natural gas fields of British Columbia has as much to say about the provocative nature of Wiebo Ludwig as it does about the corrupt state of the nation’s extreme resource development. It also offers a perverse Canadian window into the state’s overwrought preoccupation with terrorism, where underwear bombers and pipeline saboteurs seemingly erase civility faster than a Paris Hilton video.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/01/13/BombingsAndOlympics/index.html
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