The Royal Society’s oil sands expert panel
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has issued a new report on the oil sands. In general, it claims that the water contamination issues associated with oil sands projects have been overstated: “[T]here...
View ArticleShale gas in the U.K.
The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research recently released a report on the climatic impacts of shale gas, a type of unconventional fossil fuel. They feel that just the risk of water contamination...
View ArticleRelevance of the BP Gulf spill for Canada
My friend Andrea Harden has an op-ed in Vancouver’s Georgia Straight newspaper: One year after BP oil spill, lessons still to be learned in Canada.
View ArticleCCS doesn’t make coal ‘clean’
Reporting on SaskPower’s proposed $1.24 billion project to capture and store carbon dioxide from the Boundary Dam coal power station in Saskatchewan, many news sources have described the technology as...
View ArticleOil sands exports and oil spills
If Canada’s west coast becomes the gateway for oil sands exports to Asia, one undeniable risk is oil spills. These could occur along pipelines, as occurred recently in Alberta, or in the event that oil...
View ArticleEngineer speaks out against Keystone XL pipeline
Mike Klink, a former pipeline inspector with Bechtel, has publicly spoken out about the shoddy construction he saw on the original Keystone pipeline and what that means about the risks arising from the...
View ArticleStrategies for stopping Gateway #1: The Hecate Strait
As Gerald Butts explained in The Globe and Mail, one of the biggest environmental risks associated with the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline is the stream of supertankers that would carry oil from...
View ArticleOil sands buyers and sellers
In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice Portia describes how the quality of mercy is twice blessed: “[i]t blesseth him that gives and him that takes”. The oil sands are like the moral opposite of mercy...
View ArticleRisking it All – Oil on our Coast – by Twyla Roscovich
Risking it All – Oil on our Coast from Twyla Roscovich on Vimeo.
View Article“Behind the Scenes of Conservation – Great Bear: Our Crucial Choice”
The World Wildlife Fund has put together a beautiful video showing some of what would be put at risk by the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline: For more information see: Canadiansforgreatbear.ca
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