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.

The rise of the new energy world order

The rise of the new energy world order
Apr 17, 2008
By Michael T Klare

Oil prices hit 114 dollars a barrel

5 hours ago

Crude oil prices rose to a new record above 114 US dollars a barrel as investors opted for commodities over a weaker dollar.

Light, sweet crude for May delivery reached 114.53 dollars in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange before falling back slightly.

The latest spike followed on from Tuesday's record-breaking run above the 113-dollar mark.

MSNBC: Canada is in the middle of a quiet oil boom

Canada is in the middle of a quiet oil boom
Tar sands, long too expensive to process, help make it major U.S. source
By Peter Klein
CNBC
updated 2:29 p.m. MT, Mon., April. 7, 2008

Ft. McMurray, Alberta - With oil prices hovering near a hundred dollars a barrel, there’s a major oil boom underway. It’s not happening in the sweltering heat of Texas or the dry desert of Saudi Arabia, but on the frozen Canadian tundra where oil producers are developing a new source of fossil fuel.

Climate change ‘seriously underestimated’ by UN

Vancouver Sun April 3, 2008

Climate change ‘seriously underestimated’ by UN

Curbing emissions more daunting than panel reported: study

Margaret Munro

The United Nations' celebrated climate change panel has "seriously
underestimated" the challenge of curbing global CO2 emissions, say Canadian
and U.S. researchers.

Radical "decarbonization" of the global energy system is needed to stabilize
emissions -- a task that is much more daunting than the panel has led the
world to believe, the researchers report in journal Nature today.

The Peak Oil Crisis: Load shedding

The Peak Oil Crisis: Load shedding
by Tom Whipple

Fall Church News-Press (March 27 2008)

Largely unnoticed in America are the increasingly frequent electricity
shortages developing around the world.

Many of these are caused by shifting weather patterns that are leaving
hydro-electric dams with insufficient water to produce at full capacity.
While some aspects of global climate change are temporary, many, such as
the melting of glaciers, seem destined to last for decades, or perhaps
centuries, thereby depriving the world of some of the best sources of

Oil peak theorist warns of chaos, war

Oil peak theorist warns of chaos, war
SHAWN McCARTHY
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

WASHINGTON — Matt Simmons sounds the alarm like the Cassandra of the
oil industry, warning that crude production has peaked and that
looming energy shortages could derail global growth and even spark
armed conflict.

As a prominent “peak oil” theorist, the veteran oil industry financier
paints a grim picture of a world facing resource scarcity. Still, it
doesn't take a “peak-ist” to conclude that the global oil producers

Five years of war in Iraq have hit home in Edmonton

Iraq War
Five years of war in Iraq have hit home in Edmonton

DAVID BERRY / david@vueweekly.com

The further we get away from the actual date, the better Canada’s decision to not get involved with the US invasion of Iraq looks. Five years after the US launched its ill-conceived assault on the Middle Eastern nation, there aren’t many—except perhaps those in the highest offices of the American government—who consider the situation anything but a quagmire.

Utah: Oil-shale 'rush' is sparking concern

Oil-shale 'rush' is sparking concern
By Stephen Speckman
Deseret Morning News
Published: Saturday, March 22, 2008

With oil prices surpassing $100 per barrel, talk of extracting the black gold wherever it can be found in Utah and elsewhere is raising red flags for environmental groups.

The most recent complaint came this week from 26 conservation groups that accuse the Bush administration of rushing to develop oil shale and tar sands and endangering communities and 2 million acres of wild lands in three states, including Utah.

Peak Oil May Worsen the Climate Crisis

Peak Oil May Worsen the Climate Crisis
April 02, 2008 10:45 AM ET | Marianne Lavelle

It's hard to know whether we should be more worried that consuming oil is killing the planet or that there's way too little of this killer oil left.

Taking a bet on tar sands (from Malaysia)

Taking a bet on oil sands

WITH crude oil hitting a record price of US$108 per barrel recently, the search for oil and gas has been more intense than ever due to its high profit margin.

In recent years, investing in the extraction of oil from sand or oil sands is gaining popularity because of the strong demand and high prices of oil.