Syndication Date: Tue, 2010-03-09
By Dawn Paley - March 7, 2010
Beyond rhetoric about improving competitiveness and establishing the province as a centre for innovation, among the most concrete strategies suggested in the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources...Service Plan are government sponsored marketing campaigns to promote the benefits of the extractive industries.
Syndication Date: Mon, 2010-03-08
February 25, 2010
Alberta tar sands project will increase production
Calgary, Alberta – The Canadian Oil Sands Trust has announced it will increase synthetic crude oil production capacity at its Syncrude project near Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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Syndication Date: Mon, 2010-03-08
March 5, 2010
A Push to Save Greenpeace
Employees, activists struggle against Tzeporah Berman's appointment
by Dawn Paley
Syndication Date: Mon, 2010-03-08
Tar sands snubbed by 'green' retailers
Eco-campaign against Alberta's oil heats up with companies' boycott
Published On Thu Feb 11 2010
By Mitch Potter Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON–Two trendy North American retail chains have washed their hands of Alberta's high-carbon oil sands, as environmentalists intensify a campaign to demonize the Canadian fuel.
Syndication Date: Sat, 2010-02-27
By Andrew MacLeod - February 26, 2010
A prominent British Columbia environmentalist has written a letter to Greenpeace International criticizing the recent appointment of Tzeporah Berman to a position heading the organization's climate and energy campaign...“This approach means environmental groups collaborating with some [of] our most destructive corporations and most anti-environment governments...It is based on the fact that corporations are always willing to give a little to conservation in order to get a lot.”
Syndication Date: Fri, 2010-02-26
Is There Such a Thing as Safe Sex when Sleeping With the Enemy?
This is a follow-up piece to ‘Sleeping with the Enemy; EYES WIDE SHUT | TckTckTck exposé’, and ACTION ALERT! Is Greenpeace International set to become GE – Greenpeace Electric?
This is not a good year for Greenpeace.
Syndication Date: Mon, 2010-02-15
Greenpeace Greenwash
Greenpeace International hires torchbearer Tzeporah Berman as chief
climate campaigner
by Macdonald Stainsby →2010 Olympics
Syndication Date: Sat, 2010-01-30
Husky, BP help fuel oil sands resurgence
Partners cite sharply lower costs in decision to push ahead with
$2.5-billion Sunrise project
David Ebner
Globe and Mail
Jan. 20, 2010
Syndication Date: Sat, 2010-01-30
Conoco's Surmont oilsands expansion to quadruple production
By Shaun Polczer, Calgary Herald
January 20, 2010
Syndication Date: Sat, 2010-01-30
Oil sands costs driving Shell elsewhere
Company steering exploration dollars to other parts of the world, including the Gulf of Mexico and Kazakhstan
Nathan VanderKlippe
Calgary — Globe and Mail Update Published on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 8:15PM EST Last updated on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 4:12AM EST
Syndication Date: Sat, 2010-01-30
Run-of-the-river projects threaten efforts to become green
By Melissa Davis, Vancouver Sun
January 29, 2010
It's not easy being green, as the saying goes, and nowhere more so than here
in British Columbia.
Syndication Date: Sat, 2010-01-30
Noise limit could kill Mackenzie pipeline, Imperial says
Jeffrey Jones, National Post
Reuters
January 29, 2010
A panel's recommendation to enforce strict noise limits at a bird
sanctuary has the potential to shut down development of the $16.2-billion
Mackenzie pipeline in Canada's Arctic, the project's backers said.
Syndication Date: Wed, 2010-01-27
This is damning in the extreme. What with the combination of pine beetle, forest fires and more the forests have slunk to somewhere in either the "store" or the emitter categories in BC. These people know this, they have been confronted with the science to debunk the theory that arbitrary protection of a random 50% of the forest can do *anything* ... See moreto alleviate climate change.
Syndication Date: Wed, 2010-01-27
The obvious note-- one of general preference for *any* discussion with corporations over those perceived as being "pro environment" is worthy of note, but as important if not more so is that these same ENGO's *all* are corporate themselves.
Syndication Date: Wed, 2010-01-27
Tarsands leave behind ecological dead zone
By: Staff Writer (Winnipeg Free Press)
16/01/2010
DEAR EDITOR,