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• Typical Ontario and Quebec

  
  The Moderate Separatist — Authority: 114
  I had originally decided not to write on this topic given that it’s a time of goodwill and cheer and all that, but there has been so many emails asking my opinion on Quebec and Ontario’s internationally public attack on Alberta at the Copenhagen climate conference – and Premier Ed Stelmach’s response – that ...
  6 days ago

• Chinese oilsands takeover bid under review

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  The Harper government is quietly reviewing the $1.9-billion investment by a state-owned Chinese oil company in two oilsands projects, more than a month after the deal was originally supposed to close.
  1 week ago

• www.bharatbook.com : Alberta Oilsands Inc Financial and Strategic Analysis Review

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 180
  www.bharatbook.com included a new report on Alberta Oilsands Inc Financial and Strategic Analysis Review into its market report catalogue for reselling. Alberta Oilsands Inc. (Alberta Oilsands) is an independent energy company. It is engaged in the
  1 week ago

• Oilsands Quest Eyes $9 Million Private Placement

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 180
  (Comment on this article at http://www.financialwire.net/2009/12/18/oilsands-quest-eyes-9-million-private-placement/) December 18, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- Oilsands Quest Inc. (AMEX: BQI) said it has entered into a non-brokered private placement in which
  1 week ago

• Monsanto Refuses Angry Mermaid Award

  
  Action Factory DC Blog — Authority: 415
  The seas are swirling with mermaids’ fury against Monsanto and the corporate criminals who sabotaged the Copenhagen climate process. Mermaids know no borders. They swam it all the way to DC Wednesday to share their anger with the 3 winners of the “ Angry Mermaid Awards “. We at the DC Climate Action Factory ...
  1 week ago

• Form 8-K Oilsands Quest Inc For: Dec 17

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 180
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  1 week ago

• Form 8-K Oilsands Quest Inc For: Dec 17

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 180
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  1 week ago

• Copenhagen Spoof Shames Canada

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 727
  During the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, The Yes Men put out a statement in which they purported to be the Canadian environment minister, Jim Prentice. The statement pledged to cut carbon emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. The statement was followed by a response from the ...
  1 week ago

• Oilsands player decries rallies

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  While the oilsands is making major headway in reducing CO2 emissions, these antiquated coal plants all over the United States and Europe are being ignored."
  2 weeks ago

• While Big Business Save Earth?

  
  JordonCooper.com — Authority: 559
  Jared Diamond thinks it is a possibility The embrace of environmental concerns by chief executives has accelerated recently for several reasons. Lower consumption of environmental resources saves money in the short run. Maintaining sustainable resource levels and not polluting saves money in the long run. And a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fort McMurray passes plastic bag ban

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 630
  Jodie Shupac, National Post Fort McMurray, the Alberta town commonly accused of environmental bankruptcy for its controversial oilsands , passed a seemingly uncharacteristic bylaw Tuesday to ban all single-use shopping bags. The ban will include plastic...( read more )
  2 weeks ago

• Schindlers List

  
  Evolving Complexity — Authority: 120
  A new scientific study contributed to PNAS by Dr. David Schindler of the University of Alberta confirms that the Tar Sands operations in Northern Alberta are more than just a source of dirty oil and untreatable tailings ponds:December 7, 2009 - (Edmonton) After an exhaustive study of air and water pollution along the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Poisoning Albertans so that big oil can profit

  
  Relentless Egomania — Authority: 123
  Last night the Edmonton Journal posted a well timed study on the effect the oil sands are having on the Athabasca river. Basically it is the equivalent of a perpetual oil spill that happens year round 24/7. The report states that the presence of toxic chemicals in the river and surrounding watershed are up to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Words Not to Live By: Dick Cheney should eat his words

  
  ... It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison — Authority: 439
  While Dick Cheney was Vice President of the United States he said that conservation is a “sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.” This from a man who didn’t know that his country was chiefly dependent upon other countries for fossil fuels. (What are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obligatory Copenhagen Post

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 127
  Having not authored a post in a while, I figured I would rise today and wax polemic about Copenhagen, the massive  conference at which our government and all enviro-sinner nations, i.e. the West — of which Canada with its oilsands is the worst, we are told — will be compelled to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Oilsands adding carcinogens to Athabasca River: study

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  A study of water quality at 60 sites along the Athabasca River and its tributaries makes it clear the oilsands have added cancer-causing toxins to the environment, a scientist at the University of Alberta says.
  3 weeks ago

• Canada: Not a poor nation, but poorly run?

  
  ... It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison — Authority: 439
  Canada is not expected to cooperate with many world leaders in Copenhagen during the climate change talks. Our Prime Minister is only content to reduce carbon emissions by 20 per cent from 2006 levels by 2020, a target that is seen as a baby step. Why do we move so slowly toward alternative forms of power? Are we ...
  3 weeks ago

• Special Report: Business of Green: Tortured Legacy: Canadas Oil-Sands Bounty

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Canadian oil sands — mixtures of sand or clay, water and extremely heavy, viscous bitumen crude oil — hold more than 170 billion barrels of recoverable oil, in volume terms second only to the reserves of Saudi Arabia.
  3 weeks ago

• Welcome to my nightmare

  
  Relentless Egomania — Authority: 123
  It is hard being an environmentalist in Alberta. In fact i would say it is far easier to be gay than eco -friendly. Saying you disagree with the incredibly wasteful oil sands development in favor of more renewable resources is like walking into a mans house and stealing his paycheck and punching his wife in the face ...
  3 weeks ago

• Just Giver Er: FUBAR 2 in the Works

  
  The Louis Riel Trail — Authority: 122
  If you grew up in Western Canada and seeen the movie FUBAR , you probably know a 100 guys like Dean and Terry, and have gone through quite a few flats of Pilsner Well, Dean and Terry are going to be back in FUBAR 2. The story starts in Calgary where the boys are tired of trying to give’r while barely scraping ...
  4 weeks ago

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