Oil sands demand spurs U.S. refinery boom
As refiners increase capacity to handle Alberta oil, environmental organizations ratchet up the pressure

SHAWN MCCARTHY
GLOBAL ENERGY REPORTER
June 5, 2008

MPs to study impact of Alberta's oilsands on water supplies

3 days ago

OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee is launching a study on the impact of Alberta's oilsands on Canada's freshwater supplies.

The House of Commons environment committee agreed this week to proceed June 16 with a study.

Imperial's oilsands permit restored
Reuters
Published: Saturday, June 07, 2008

CALGARY - Imperial Oil Ltd. again has all the approvals it needs to go ahead with its $8-billion Kearl oilsands project after the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) reinstated its authorization, revoked in March during a legal battle.

Stop the Tar Sands Oil Rush
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Major oil companies want to use Illinois as a major artery for bringing dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. market — with enormous consequences for our local environment and our global climate.

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Exxon Mobil CEO takes aim at environmentalists
Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Deep Well Purchases 6 New Sections of Land in the Peace River Area

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, May 28, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) ----Deep Well Oil & Gas, Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Deep Well") (PINK SHEETS: DWOG) are pleased to announce that they have purchased another 6 sections in the Peace River area.

WoodMac: US refiners, pipelines invest in Canadian tar sands

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, May 30 -- The projected growth of Alberta oil sands production, which has in place some 1.75 trillion bbl of resources, is triggering a wave of investments, said Wood Mackenzie Ltd., Edinburgh.

Life, Liberty, Water
by Maude Barlow

As climate change and worldwide shortages loom, will people fight over water or join together to protect it? A global water justice movement is demanding a change in international law to settle once and for all the question of who controls water.

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Shell 'selling suicide' by preferring tar sands to wind
Terry Macalister // The Guardian // Wednesday May 21 2008

Time to draw a line in the oil sands

May 01, 2008 04:30 AM
Gillian McEachern
Matt Price

Ontario is on the cusp of helping oil-sands emissions explode. Shell Canada wants permits to be granted by the end of this year for a new refinery in Sarnia to process oil from its oil-sands mines in Alberta for use in gas tanks across the GTA.

Making mention of the Pew Foundation/Charitable Trusts here is ridiculously over-simplified. The groups that the Pew fund, through the money from Sunoco (who continue to refine tar sands oil and make multiple billions), are overwhelmingly among the most tame and market driven ones-- deflecting actual campaigning against the tar sands.

Ottawa fast tracks Kearl mine permit
Decision to green-light Imperial oil sands project for a second time now sits with cabinet
DAVID EBNER AND BRIAN LAGHI
Globe and Mail
May 19, 2008

Eni finds oil sands deposits in Congo
By Ed Crooks in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo

Published: May 20 2008 03:00 | Last updated: May 20 2008 03:00

Eni, the Italian oil group, has discovered a large oil sands deposit in the Republic of Congo that is expected to become Africa's first large unconventional oil development and could hold several billion barrels.

Oil thirst means a moderate U.S.
Don't worry about American election, says ex-premier
Sheila Pratt, Edmonton Journal
Published: Monday, May 19, 2008

Alberta has little to fear from the tough talk in the U.S. on climate change heading into the fall presidential election, says former premier Peter Lougheed.

Here is the intervention that was made at the United Nations by the
Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations.

INTERVENTION TO THE SEVENTH SESSION ON THE UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON
INDIGENOUS ISSUES

Read at approximately 12:00 noon, Tuesday, April 29, 2008