Tar Sands 101
The Tar Sands "Gigaproject" is the largest industrial project in human history and likely also the most destructive. The tar sands mining procedure releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as regular oil production and is slated to become the single largest industrial contributor in North America to Climate Change.
The tar sands are already slated to be the cause of up to the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet behind the Amazon Rainforest Basin. Currently approved projects will see 3 million barrels of tar sands mock crude produced daily by 2018; for each barrel of oil up to as high as five barrels of water are used.
Human health in many communities has seriously taken a turn for the worse with many causes alleged to be from tar sands production. Tar sands production has led to many serious social issues throughout Alberta, from housing crises to the vast expansion of temporary foreign worker programs that racialize and exploit so-called non-citizens. Infrastructure from pipelines to refineries to super tanker oil traffic on the seas crosses the continent in all directions to allthree major oceans and the Gulf of Mexico.
The mock oil produced primarily is consumed in the United States and helps to subsidize continued wars of aggression against other oil producing nations such as Iraq, Venezuela and Iran.
To understand the tar sands in more depth, continue to our Tar Sands 101 reading list
Boston ASPO: The Canadian tar sands
2006 Boston ASPO: The Canadian tar sands
Whiskey & Gunpowder / Energy Bulletin
November 13, 2006
By Byron W. King
Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear, And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear; With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold, A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.
County readies for Code Red, still seeing black (Keystone)
County readies for Code Red, still seeing black
By Janet Morales
Moberly Monitor-Index
Fri Sep 19, 2008, Moberly, Mo.
The Randolph County Commission is working with the City of Moberly to implement a countywide Code Red program. In May 22, the Moberly City Council approved a contract with Emergency Communications Network, Inc. to provide Code Red service to the city. The high-speed notification system was purchased at a cost of $7,500 to make emergency and other critical community alerts to residents within the Moberly city limits.
Alberta's ‘dirty' oil a sticky problem for Charest
Alberta's ‘dirty' oil a sticky problem for Charest
KONRAD YAKABUSKI // The Globe and Mail
September 18, 2008
If you had to choose between Alberta oil or crude from Algeria and Angola, which should you pick?
This is the decision Quebec Premier Jean Charest faces now that Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. has unveiled plans to pipe heavy crude from the Alberta oil sands to refineries in Montreal for the first time.
Arctic key to economic future, Russia claims
Arctic key to economic future, Russia claims
Randy Boswell
Canwest News Service
Thursday, September 18, 2008
OTTAWA -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev directed his top Kremlin officials to develop a comprehensive and assertive strategy to exploit the region's vast Arctic frontier -- including the demarcation of boundaries and the exploiting of polar resources -- echoing a key message of the Conservative government's re-election campaign.
Petrocan talking itself out of tar sands (The Massive Fort Hills Project)
Petrocan talking itself out of oil sands
Andrew Willis, September 17, 2008 at 9:09 AM EDT
Petro-Canada is talking itself out of the Fort Hills oil sands project.
The latest cost estimates on the project, released late Tuesday, highlighted a 50-per-cent spike in expenses over the past 15 months, on a project that was already projected to eat up $14.1-billion. Keep in mind: This initiative still needs approvals from both the Petrocan board and government bodies.
How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
Illegal People
How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
For a schedule of coming book discussions and photography exhibitions, go to: http://dbacon.igc.org/IndexPS/schedule.html
Dead forest standing-- Greenwashing a tar sands sacrifice zone
Issues - Dead forest standing
Greenwashing a tar sands sacrifice zone
MACDONALD STAINSBY / oilsandstruth.org
The famous Hollywood movie Dead Man Walking made common parlance of the term for a person on death row leaving his cell for the last time, heading for execution. The person about to be executed will walk towards where they will take their last breath, and “dead man walking” is a term about those last steps.
Republicans lie about drilling
Republicans lie about drilling
September 17, 2008
"Drill Baby Drill" is the new Republican catch phrase. Don't you just love it? Well, maybe not.
Republicans are so used to lying to naïve Americans, as most live, believe and hang on their every word. Well, they're at it again. Didn't we learn anything in the last eight years of Republican leadership as they lied us into a war for oil?
Mackenzie pipeline 'footprint' could threaten wildlife: report
Mackenzie pipeline 'footprint' could threaten wildlife: report
Unique sanctuary established in 1961
ANDREW MAYEDA, Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, August 19
The Harper government has been warned that the ecological "footprint" of the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline on an Arctic bird sanctuary that protects migratory birds and at-risk species such as polar bears could exceed the threshold deemed acceptable by Environment Canada, newly released documents reveal.
No Games on Stolen Native Land! Panel on 2010, tar sands and call to disrupt the "Spirit Train" (September 27 & 29)
- Alberta (& Saskatchewan) Tar Sands
- Enbridge Gateway Pipeline/ Offshore Tanker Traffic [BC]
- International oil & gas
- 2010 Olympics
- Animals
- Climate Change / Emissions
- Corruption
- Economics
- Energy
- Forests
- Gender
- Health
- Indigenous
- Labour / Migration
- Land
- Nuclear
- Peak Oil
- Social Impacts
- War and Security
- Water
Full Call Out Here:
http://lists.oilsandstruth.org/pipermail/ost-announce/2008-September/000...
No Games on Stolen Native Land! Panel on 2010, tar sands and call to disrupt the "Spirit Train" (September 27 & 29)
On September 29th, 2008 (Monday), the 2010 Olympic Winter Games "Spirit
Train" will be coming to Edmonton, Alberta. A call out has been issued
by the Olympics Resistance Network.
On September 27, 2008, several speakers from indigenous communities who
are being adversely effected on unceded territories in "British
