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• Canada points out the accuracy of the “Golden Rule”

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 159
  Image by mrjorgen via Flickr “He who has the gold, makes the rules.” I just read this article about how Canada is not only destroying its own environment and the health of its citizens but sacrificing its international goodwill by actively sabotaging all global environmental initiatives. Why would a first ...
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• Canada points out the accuracy of the “Golden Rule”

  
  A Division by Zer0 — Authority: 415
  Image by mrjorgen via Flickr “He who has the gold, makes the rules.” I just read this article about how Canada is not only destroying its own environment and the health of its citizens but sacrificing its international goodwill by actively sabotaging all global environmental initiatives. Why would a first ...
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• Oil Sands Cleanup Efforts Criticized

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 716
  Seven of Albertas nine oil sands projects will fail to meet new cleanup rules for vast tailing ponds near bitumen refineries, according to a new report.
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• The rogue greenhouse gas emission country

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 524
  China? Russia? India? The United States? No, it’s Canada- Canada’s image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling. The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen.  George Monbiot. U.K. Guardian. We have ...
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• World Urges Canadas Conservative Government to Do More to Manage Climate Change

  
  The GREEN MARKET — Authority: 122
  Despite the urgings of scientists, the UN, European leaders and even Queen Elizabeth ll, Canadas ruling Conservative party has a deplorable record on managing climate change. The most current science indicates that governments must act now to curb GHGs. A new study entitled the Copenhagen Diagnosis, co-authored by ...
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• Canadian Fund Warns of Sticky Risks in Tar Sands Investment

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 626
  Alberta’s sprawling tar sands region holds the second largest oil reserve in the world after Saudi Arabia, but investors lured by the promise of black gold should think twice about the environmental risks, a Canadian investment fund warns. In a new report, Northwest & Ethical Investments LP describes how ...
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• Monbiot: Canadas Image in Tatters

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 680
  Since the Viet Nam war, Canadians (and some Americans) have been sewing Canadian flag patches on their backpacks when they travel to distinguish themselves from their neighbours. But they will be ripping them off soon, as the country becomes an international pariah for its behaviour on the climate change issue. ...
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• This is not my Canada

  
  Runesmith's Canadian Content — Authority: 464
  Respected British writer and activist George Monbiot has joined the pile-on of individuals , organizations and nations who are horrified by Canadas increasingly obstructionist approach on the climate change front. So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself ...
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• Peak oil: the summit that dominates the horizon

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 145
  The big international companies such as BP and ExxonMobil are struggling to find enough new oil to replace their exploited reserves year-on-year and Shell found itself on the end of a major fine for exaggerating its reserves report to the Securities & Exchange Commission in the US.
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• Shorter Question Everything

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 441
  RussiaRussia opposes change in Bosnia-Herzegovina constitution, insists it is unacceptable to impose constitutional reforms on other countries. his was stated by Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin addressing a UN Security Council meeting. The US and the European Union are pressing ...
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• The Best Energy Investments in the World

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 502
  An interview with Marin Katusa, Casey Research In the past three years, Marin Katusa, senior energy analyst at Casey Research, has become one of the most respected and listened-to authorities in the investment advisory business. He spends the bulk of his time on airplanes and in far-off places studying the future ...
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• With a Little Help From Our Friends

  
  Runesmith's Canadian Content — Authority: 464
  Not sure how I missed this one: a full page ad in Fridays Milton Champion denouncing Lisa Raitt and her recent U.S. Tar Sands Promotional Tour - and its not even one of ours! Thanks, ForestEthics !
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• Think

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 125
  These two stories are a prime example and result of enviro madness . We have no choice, this pipeline must be built. Just in case you forgot how much oil is sitting up here.
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• Canadas Heartland - Political Peak Oils First Refuge

  
  ECO-CAN News — Authority: 137
  The concept of “political peak oil” (an obscure, unpleasant term I admit) has been floating around under that name or as “geopolitical peak” (even worse) for years. Large oil companies based in the US, and UK, and France - known as the ‘oil majors’ - cumulatively control, at most, 15 to 20% of proven ...
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• Suncor awards Aecon Firebag contract

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 183
  Hot on the heels of Suncor restarting work on its Firebag 3 oilsands project, Aecon Group said Monday it has been awarded a key contract at the Fort McMurray site
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• How things work: Canada’s oil sands

  
  OurWorld 2.0 — Authority: 119
  With the topic of peak global oil production moving more into the mainstream, you have perhaps heard of the Canadian oil sands. There, huge tracts of remote forested land are strip-mined to obtain a type of thick crude oil called bitumen. The country’s main deposits are found mostly in the western province of ...
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• The Angry Mermaid Strikes Back

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 420
  All the news reports this morning are that a deal at Copenhagen is dead. Barack Obama has said that we had run out of time to secure a deal in December. This will please the corporate lobbyists no end.  The longer they can delay action on climate the better. But now Copenhagen’s iconic mermaid is striking back. ...
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  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 145
  
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• Canadian Oils Sands upgraded

  
  FP Trading Desk — Authority: 577
  Canadian Oil Sands Trust , in the mind of at least one analyst, made an strange decision recently.  “Production guidance was lower than anticipated due in what largely appears to be management’s decision to make an allowance for unplanned maintenance work,” said Brian Dutton, an analyst at Credit Suisse.  ...
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• Trade #1: Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COSWF)

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 667
  Filed under: Stocks to Buy , Best Stocks for 2009 The Canadian Oil Sands Trust ( COSWF ) is an open-ended investment trust that generates income from its 36.74% interest in the Syncrude Canada Ltd. joint venture, which is the worlds largest producer of crude oil from oil sands and the largest single-source ...
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