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• More Embarrassment in Copenhagen for Canada

  
  ECO-CAN News — Authority: 137
    The dirty oil of the tar sands took another hit today on the world stage. The tar sands embarrassment came on the same day that Canada “won” Fossil of the Day awards for the fourth time from international environmental groups at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen.  A group of 11 ...
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
  13 hours ago

• Albertas Environment Minister Discusses Copenhagen, Oil Sands

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 731
  Rob Renner, Albertas environment minister, heads to Copenhagen next week amid a storm of criticism over the emissions resultant from tar-sands extraction in his province.
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• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
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• Useless Gestures Dept: Fort McMurray Bans Single Use Bags

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 624
  That big grey blob at the top? The Alberta tar sands. The little A at the bottom? Fort McMurray, the dormitory suburb of the oil sands, a boom town full of roustabouts and roughnecks driving pickup trucks and SUVs, sometimes known as Fort McMoney.But from cancer-plagued Fort Chip downstream from the tar sands to ...
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• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
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• YouTube video of the unbelievable environmental devastation in Canada, an area the size of the Great Britain, caused by tar sands surface mining

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 516
  The Tar Sands Blow (PG) From agitpopcorn: "The Canadian Tar Sands is the worlds largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Dirty oil sands crude generates as much as five times greenhouse gas as conventional oil. Yet, unless steps are taken by the U.S. and Canada, both countries will become irrevocably addicted to the ...
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• Useless Gestures Dept: Fort McMurray Bans Single Use Bags

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 145
  That big grey blob at the top? The Alberta tar sands. The little A at the bottom? Fort McMurray, the dormitory suburb of the oil sands, a boom town full of roustabouts and roughnecks driving pickup trucks and SUVs, sometimes known as Fort McMoney. But from cancer-plagued Fort Chip downstream from the tar sands to Fort ...
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• Hypocrisy and Contradictions at the COP

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 419
  Oh the hypocrisy. Today is the day that President Obama receives the Nobel Peace Prize, with many arguing that he is yet to bring peace. Today is also the day that Obama’s Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar will address the Copenhagen conference hours after approving oil giant Shell’s highly controversial plans to ...
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• Extreme oil anyone ?

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 125
  While some magazines print sensationalist articles , some other prefer to carry out real research with real facts and figures. New Scientist indeed published an interesting article on what they call extreme – or unconventional – oil. Understanding that peak oil is either near or already arrived we can either ...
  2 days ago

• Stop Tarring Our Image, Our Future, Our Climate, and Our Communities

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 618
  Canada’s former image of being an amiable and lovable nation is being tarred at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15), where Canadian negotiaters are constantly blocking progress towards an international climate deal. At the UNFCC today, Canadian youth converged in the plenary hall, holding a banner saying: ...
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• Peak oil, prices, and supplies - Dec 9

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 610
  -Approaching peak oil -Copenhagen talks could leave oil industry with a sinking feeling -IEA forecasts stir debate read more
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• Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was The Play?

  
  The Disaffected Lib — Authority: 431
  It seems that Alberta fears the Harper Conservatives may throw them to the wolves at the UN climate summit underway in Copenhagen. Concerned enough anyway that Special Ed Stelmach has dispatched his own EnviroMin, Rob Renner, to Copenhagen to spread the news about Albertas wondrous Athabasca Tar Sands. "Im going ...
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• George Monbiot: Canadas image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 516
  Canadas 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 ...
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• Canadian and U.S. tar sands the most polluting and least energy efficient energy project

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 516
  From YouTube: The Canadian Tar Sands is the worlds largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Dirty oil sands crude generates as much as five times greenhouse gas as conventional oil. Yet, unless steps are taken by the U.S. and Canada, both countries will become irrevocably addicted to the dirtiest oil on earth. Totally ...
  3 days ago

• Africans protest COP15, say “process manipulated”

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  In the most heated protest of these early days at COP15 in Copenhagen, African representatives accused the political leaders of the developed world of hijacking the conference to the detriment of developing nations. The marchers said the process of the talks had been manipulated by the developed worlds political ...
  3 days ago

• Schindlers List

  
  Evolving Complexity — Authority: 128
  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 ...
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• E. N. Kelly et al., PNAS 2009, Oil sands development contributes polycyclic aromatic compounds to the Athabasca River and its tributaries

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 516
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , published online before print December 7, 2009; doi: 10.1073/pnas.0912050106 Oil sands development contributes polycyclic aromatic compounds to the Athabasca River ...
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• Fat Cat Canada’s Giant Litter Box

  
  Franke James — Authority: 91
  Prime Minister Stephen HarperPMO’s Ottawa Office: (613) 992-4211Twitter: @PMharpere-mail: pm@pm.gc.cafax: 613-941-6900What Canadians Can DoIf you’re a Canadian reading this, here’s the action plan from CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK CANADA:Take action to make sure your federal elected official: a) Signs the Kyoto Plus ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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