Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

International oil & gas

Stock markets and global oil interests (including war) would be included here, as would attempts to get oil out of high risk, low return areas from oil shale in Colorado, to natural gas and heavy oil in the high eastern Arctic. The tar sands are part of this trend and should be seen as such. What happens with the tar sands will have a tremendous impact on what kind of choices are made elsewhere, environmentally and socially.

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International Oil & Gas is a category for stories relating to tar sand production or climate change but not in any of the projects already listed geographically. This includes other regions of the planet with horrible environmental and high energy costs that, like the tar sands, are only a "choice" because of high prices and the global depletion of easily recoverable oil reserves. Such issues as the threat of war on Iran, "instability" in Iraq and Venezuela or disasters like Katrina will all drive up oil prices, which in turn doubly encourages tar sand production-- by price demand and energy demand. Stock markets and global oil interests (including war) would be included here, as would attempts to get oil out of high risk, low return areas from oil shale in Colorado, to natural gas and heavy oil in the high eastern Arctic. The tar sands are part of this trend and should be seen as such. What happens with the tar sands will have a tremendous impact on what kind of choices are made elsewhere, environmentally and socially.

North America Refining Industry to 2013

North America Refining Industry to 2013: Investment Opportunities, Analysis and Forecasts of All Active and Planned Refineries in North America

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Israeli Corp. Ormat’s Opti Takes On Tar Sands In Alberta, A Dirty Deed For The Company’s “Clean” Image

Ormat’s Opti Takes On Oil Sands In Alberta, A Dirty Deed For The Company’s “Clean” Image
Submitted by Maurice Picow on October 4, 2009

Israel’s ORMAT Industries Ltd (ORA) has joined with its subsidiary Opti Canada Inc in a project in extract and produce a high grade of petroleum from oil sands located in northern Alberta Canada. ORMAT is a world leader in producing energy from unconventional sources, including geo-thermal energy from volcanoes and hot springs under the earth’s surface.

Imperial probes Sarnia benzene leak

Imperial probes Sarnia benzene leak
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 |
CBC News

Police in Sarnia have lifted a shelter order for parts of the city that began after a benzene leak at the Imperial Oil facility there.

Oil exports to U.S. set record

Oilsands output helps fill shortfall from Venezuela, Mexico

By Lisa Schmidt, Calgary Herald
September 30, 2009

Canada --already the largest oil supplier to the U.S.--pumped out record exports south of the border this summer, as Alberta's oilsands crude fill the gaps left by competitors.

U.S. imports of crude oil from Canada rose 5.4 per cent in July to the highest monthly level in at least 36 years, according to figures released by the U.S. Energy Department.

Climate change threatens millions of children with hunger

Climate change threatens millions of children with hunger
Geoffrey York

Johannesburg — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Tuesday, Sep. 29, 2009

Malnutrition will strike another 25 million children in the world's poorest countries if climate change continues unabated, a new study says.

Africa and South Asia will be the hardest-hit regions as rising temperatures lead to lower crop yields and higher prices for basic food staples such as wheat, rice and maize, according to the study to be released Wednesday by the International Food Policy Research Institute.

"A transport fuel with a future"-- Beginning the new sell out towards natural gas

September 2009 - Analysis - Natural gas
A transport fuel with a future
Petroleum Economist
September 28, 2009

Concerns over energy supply security, greenhouse-gas emissions and oil-price volatility are generating greater interest in natural gas vehicles, writes Ian Lewis

NATURAL gas has long been a popular fuel for fleet vehicles in South America. But new legislation is set to encourage the use of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) in the US – which could be a boost for Latin American NGV manufacturers.

PRESS: Foundation funding of environmental groups leads to diminished transparency, accountability: New report

For Immediate Release:

Offsetting Resistance

The effects of foundation funding from the Great Bear Rainforest to the Athabasca River

A report by Macdonald Stainsby and Dru Oja Jay
www.offsettingresistance.ca

A movement is building to shut down the tar sands, one of the most destructive projects in human history. Decisions are being made about the strategies that will be used and the goals that will be pursued.

Suncor ‘all about the tar sands' again

Suncor ‘all about the oil sands' again
After its merger with Petro-Canada, Canada's biggest energy company is backing away from natural gas

Shawn McCarthy
Toronto — Globe and Mail
Sep. 16, 2009

Canada's biggest energy company is putting natural gas on the back burner.

Suncor Energy Inc. plans to sell a significant portion of the natural gas portfolio it inherited from Petro-Canada as it prepares to restart its expansion plans in the oil sands.

As Obama and Harper meet, activists block mine and company faces trial

U.S., Canada ties get messy with oil sands issue
As Obama and Harper meet, activists block mine and company faces trial
Sept. 16, 2009
MSNBC

WASHINGTON - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday met with President Barack Obama at the White House, bringing with him some environmental baggage: Activists back home were squatting at a huge open pit mine used to get oil from tar sands, while a company this week pleaded not guilty to charges it was negligent in the deaths of 1,600 birds that flew into a tar sands waste reservoir.

Why the British are invading the oil patch

Why the British are invading the oil patch
Nathan Vanderklippe

Calgary — Globe and Mail
Sep. 09, 2009

At a time when thousands of Alberta's oil and construction workers have lost their jobs, the British Trade Office in Calgary has added to its numbers as it handles a surge in interest from corporations back home, many of them interested in bringing to Canada expertise gained from work in the North Sea.