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Bold action needed, Al Gore says
Paramount :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
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Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore speaks at a $500-a-ticket dinner Nov. 24, 2009 evening at Exhibition Place. A shortage of political will – not a gauntlet of technological obstacles – is all that separates the human species from a secure, prosperous...
Tags: Al Gore, U.S, Alberta, tar sands, Paramount, Environment, Oil sands, Our Choice, An Inconvenient Truth, Politics, Carbon footprint, Athabasca Oil Sands, David Suzuki, Premier of Alberta, Al Gore and the environment, Energy policy, Energy, Renewable energy, Global warming, Energy development, Ed Stelmach, Action on climate change
16 Greenpeace activists arrested near Shell site
Edmonton :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Sixteen Greenpeace activists were arrested early Sunday after spending 24 hours chained high up on smokestacks and a construction crane at a Shell Canada upgrader expansion site northeast of Edmonton. An expert in gender identity says the firing of a...
Tags: Canada Greenpeace, Shell Canada, Alberta Shell, greenpeace activists, Shell Scotford, Edmonton Sun, Fort Saskatchewan, Shell Upgrader, tar sands, greenpeace protesters
Greenpeace activists halt production at Alberta mine
Edmonton :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Hundreds of residents attended a public information session Tuesday night to ask questions and get more information on the proposed west LRT route via Stony Plain Road. About two dozen Greenpeace activists have stopped two conveyer belts that carry bitumen...
Tags: Greenpeace, Alberta, greenpeace activists, Suncor, tar sands, conveyor belts, Canada, northern alberta, greenpeace protesters, oilsands upgrader
Obama, Harper, Called Out for Dirty Oil Investments
When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with President Obama this week, the economy is predicted to dominate the discussion. However, both heads of state are facing increased pressure to address another issue: cooperation between Canada...
Tags: Barack Obama, Stephen Harper, Canada, US, Clipper pipeline, tar sands, Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace, Niagara Falls, oil, protest
Clinton Compromises on Climate, Bends to Politics
In a move best described as sacrificing the global climate for political purposes, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her State Department authority to grant the permit for a pipeline across the US-Canada border that will deliver up to 800,000...
Tags: Hillary Rodham Clinton, State Department, tar sands, clipper pipeline, global warming
Andrew Nikiforuk wins Rachel Carson medal
Toronto :: Canada | 4 months ago
Credibility A ndrew Nikiforuk, the Alberta-based writer and evironmental crusader, has become the first Canadian to win the prestigious Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the U.S.-based Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). Nikiforuk took the $10,000...
Tags: Andrew Nikiforuk, tar sands
British campaigners call for Tar Sands company boycotts
Manchester-based Ethical Consumer magazine, a leading researcher into corporate environmental and social ethics, has called for a boycott of high street brand names associated with environmentally destructive tar sands extraction in Canada. Tar...
Tags: climate change, greenhouse gases, tar sands, boycott, pollution, Canadian First Nations
Tell Hillary Clinton Stop Canadian Tar Sands
The Alberta Clipper pipeline is up for approval by the U.S. State Department and Hillary Clinton has the power to stop it. The Sierra Club and Forest Ethics are petitioning to send Clinton a message that oil from tar sands is not the way to feed America's...
Tags: Tar Sands, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sierra Club, Cean Energy
National Post, Canada: Correcting Dymond on procurement
Toronto :: Canada | 5 months ago
Credibility Bill Dymond is correct that the United States did not agree to open state government procurement in the FTA negotiations. United States and Canada left procurement by state or provincial governments to be resolved in future negotiations that never materialized.
Tags: tar sands, United States, Clinton, Canada
WIND, OIL & MISFIT MINISTERS!
Canadian Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt just keeps stepping in the big poop pile! Last week her aide, Jasmine MacDonnell, had to resign over the political tempest that ensued when secret documents about Canada's Nuclear Industry were left behind...
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