<p>Jordan to Rely on Shale Oil to Meet Soaring Domestic Demand</p>
<p>7 August 2012—Jordan aims to extract 40,000 BOPD of oil from its shale oil reserves by 2016 to meet the country’s increasing demand, Jordan Oil Shale Energy Company (JOSECO) said.</p>
<p>JOSECO is a subsidiary of Estonian state-owned Eesti Energia.</p>

<p>Nunavut sees devolution light after long Arctic winter</p>
<p>Yadullah Hussain | Jul 20, 2012<br />
Financial Post</p>

<p>Unistoten Action Camp</p>
<p>by Noah Ross<br />
Media Coop, August 8, 2012</p>
<p>Beginning on August 5th, the Unistoten, a clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, have established a checkpoint located on the bridge over the Morice River.</p>

<p>Tensions Boil as Israeli Oil Riches Grow<br />
News From Around the World<br />
Monday, June 25, 2012<br />
Ed DeShields</p>
<p>Israel’s once hidden oil riches are now certain to be so large its treasures could make it the richest oil country in the world. And, its neighbors are not only noticing, they’re boiling mad.</p>

<p>Alberta Premier Says No Money For BC<br />
By Ben Meisner<br />
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 </p>

<p>B.C. newspaper tycoon proposing $13-billion oil refinery for Northern Gateway oil </p>
<p>By GORDON HOEKSTRA,<br />
VANCOUVER SUN<br />
August 17, 2012 </p>
<p>VANCOUVER - B.C. community newspaper tycoon David Black proposed today building a $13-billion oil refinery near Kitimat to use all of the crude from Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway pipeline.</p>

<p>Tar Sands Giants’ Sneaky New Playbook Revealed</p>
<p>By Climate Guest Blogger on Jul 7, 2012 at 10:46 am</p>
<p>by Tony Iallonardo, via National Wildlife Federation</p>
<p>Polluters seem to have drawn the wrong lesson from the Keystone XL controversy. Rather than temper the headlong rush to exploit tar sands, they’re getting sneakier.</p>

<p>Another First Nations community says no to [Gateway] pipeline</p>
<p>QMI Agency<br />
Toronto Sun<br />
First posted: Sunday, July 08, 2012 </p>
<p>A B.C.-based First Nations community has added its name to the list of opponents of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.</p>

<p>Canada favors tech cooperation with J'lem<br />
By SHARON UDASIN<br />
Jerusalem Post<br />
06/27/2012 </p>
<p>‘Israel is a hotbed of innovation, technological activity,’ Canadian resources minister says before meeting with Uzi Landau.</p>

<p>Kazakhstan will squeeze oil from sand and clay<br />
Sunday, 08.07.2012<br />
Tengri News</p>
<p>Kazakhstan wants to start extracting oil from sand in 2013, deputy Director of the Scientific-Research Institute of New Chemical Technologies and Materials of Al-Farabi Kazakh State University Valentina Yemelyanova told Tengrinews.kz.</p>

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<p>More BS than Bitumen Flowing From Alberta After Third Recent Spill<br />
by Damien Gillis l The Canadian.ca</p>
<p>A story in yesterday's Edmonton Journal on the latest pipeline spill in Alberta, this one near Elk Point, was more full of crap than the province's rivers and farms are full of oil these days.</p>

<p>Texas Activists Move Toward Tar Sands Blockade<br />
Tuesday, 26 June 2012<br />
By Candice Bernd, Truthout </p>
<p>Texas climate justice activists are prepared to use nonviolent, direct action to block the Keystone XL pipeline's construction.</p>
<p><a href="http://oilsandstruth.org/texas-activists-move-toward-tar-sands-blockade" target="_blank">read more</a></p>

<p>B.C. First Nations dispute Enbridge pipeline claims – British Columbia – CBC News<br />
Posted on June 6, 2012 by admin</p>
<p>A group representing several B.C. First Nations says Enbridge is wrong to claim 60 per cent of aboriginal communities along the proposed route of the Northern Gateway pipeline have signed on to the project.</p>

<p>Canada to be among top three oil producers by 2030</p>
<p>By Yadullah Hussain, Financial Post</p>
<p>June 5, 2012 </p>
<p>Canada could emerge as the top three or four oil producer in the world by 2030 thanks to rising oil sands supply, according to an industry forecast which focuses more on the possibilities that lay before the Canadian oil industry rather than its substantial challenges.</p>