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Time for tar sands
The mag exalts Canada's potential to become the Saudi Arabia of the north |
Joseph Romm |
28 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- I consider Time to be one of the more forward-looking periodicals when it comes to the environment. But the editors messed up in this week's edition. The June 2 Time carries a breathless feature about the potential petroleum bonanza in Canada's tar sands. The article's authors are so giddy with the testosterone rush of big-ass earth-moving ... |
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| Topics: Alberta, deforestation, energy, magazines, mining, oil, oil sands (all these topics) |
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Ducks per gallon
Tar sands are hardly 'environmentally responsible' |
Josh Dorner |
02 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Alberta's tar sands got yet another huge black eye this week when as many as 500 ducks died after simply landing on a giant pond full of highly toxic oil sands tailings. Only five were said to have survived their toxic plunge. A member of a Canadian environmental watchdog group described the water found in the ponds as follows: Drinking a glass of water from a tailings pond would be like drinking a diluted glass of oil or gasoline. Whether the bitumen is cooked ... |
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| Topics: Alberta, animal welfare, energy, environmental movement, international politics, oil sands, politics (all these topics) |
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Myth me?
Alberta premier heads to D.C. to preach the virtues of tar sands |
David Roberts |
17 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Kevin Grandia has the skinny on Alberta (it's in Canada) Premier Ed Stelmach's visit to D.C. to shill for tar sands and to fight "the myth that the environmental cost of the oilsands is too high." Below is Stelmach with a very perspicacious polar bear: |
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| Topics: Alberta, Canada, energy, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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The Sands of Grime
Waterways downstream from oil sands are full o' toxins, says study |
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09 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 1:46 PM on 09 Nov 2007 Fish, water, and sediment downstream from the gigantic oil sands projects in Alberta are chock-full of carcinogens and other toxins, says a new study. While the research does not make a direct link between the oil sands, the toxins, and presumed health consequences, the largely Native residents of downstream community Fort Chipewyan have long suspected that they experience high ... |
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| Topics: Alberta, energy, environmental justice, health, news, oil, oil sands, scientific research, toxics (all these topics) |
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Sand Trap
Cancers, other diseases rising near Alberta oil sands |
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13 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Sand Trap Cancers, other diseases rising near Alberta oil sands Illnesses including leukemia and lymphomas are cropping up at greater than expected rates in a First Nations community near oil sands in Canada's Alberta province. Elders at Fort Chipewyan say incidence of disease started rising when the oil industry started extracting and processing hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil a day near their comm ... |
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| Topics: Alberta, energy, health, news, oil, oil sands (all these topics) |
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Fatwa Alberta
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22 May 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Fatwa Alberta Canada's already-tense internal battle over whether to ratify the Kyoto Treaty on climate change heated up further yesterday, when the province of Alberta withdrew from negotiations after its alternative emissions-cutting plan was rejected by the other provinces and territories. In response, Alberta resigned as co-chair of the commission formed to negotiate climate issues and refused to sign the commu ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Alberta, Canada, climate (all these topics) |
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