Climate Change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon. 40% of Canada’s emissions already come from Alberta alone, not counting the entire tar sands infrastructure across North America nor counting the projected increase in tar sands production or the infrastructure built across the continent to accommodate such increases in production. Factor it all in and you get the picture. You haven’t even burned the petrol yet.
Keystone Pipeline hearings set
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/CB3250...
08/30/2007
Public hearings on a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Keystone Pipeline are planned in St. Charles and Collinsville next week.
Green Groups Seek Freeze on Canada Arctic Pipelines
http://www.cnbc.com/id/20516662
30 Aug 2007 | 03:33 PM ET
Regulators should slap a moratorium on pipelines in Canada's North because governments and oil companies have not planned for long-term environmental impacts, a green-group representative said Thursday.
Several environmental and social activists began submissions Thursday to the regulatory panel probing the C$16.2 billion ($15.3 billion) Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline on the proposed development's cumulative effects.
THINK I'LL GO OUT TO ALBERTA.
SCOTT HARRIS / scott@vueweekly.com
Greenpeace and its ilk set up shop to battle oilsands
Opposition to the Alberta oil sands got a boost this August when international environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace opened the doors of its Edmonton office, becoming the first of a number of well-known environmental organizations to officially set up shop in Alberta to take on increased development in the north of the province.
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Anyone sounding the warning bells about oil prices crashing to earth
in the wake of the ongoing liquidity crunch would be well advised to
Application to build a Nuclear Reactor in Northern Alberta/Peace River
Shaun Polczer, CanWest News Service
Published: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d5f7f6ae-00ce-4...
The prospect of a nuclear-fuelled Alberta moved closer to reality after a Calgary-based company filed for a licence to build the province's first reactor.
Squeezing oil from stones
There are vast reserves of oil trapped within Alberta's rockbed - the trick is getting it out
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070822.ROILSANDS22/TP...
NORVAL SCOTT
August 22, 2007
CALGARY -- OSUM Oil Sands Corp. believes it might have the answer to one of the oil patch's most perplexing problems - extracting the billions of barrels of crude trapped in Alberta's limestone deposits.
Syncrude ordered to cut emissions from smelly pond
Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:13 PM EDT143
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Syncrude Canada Ltd has been ordered to clean up a settling pond at its northern Alberta oil sands project after it began emitting ammonia and small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas, Alberta environmental regulators said on Tuesday.
Higher CO{-2} May Imperil Grasslands
Scientists warn of dire consequences for grazing areas
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3461/
by Alan Zarembo
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere might be contributing to the conversion of the world’s grasslands - critical for livestock grazing - into a landscape of useless woody shrubs, according to a study released Monday.
By artificially doubling carbon dioxide levels over enclosed sections of the Colorado prairie, researchers created a dramatic rise in Artemisia frigida, commonly known as fringed sage. 0828 03
Nuclear plant plan draws fire
Environmentalists question impact on area land and water; company touts 'clean, safe, reliable' power
Jamie Hall, The Edmonton Journal; With files from the Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=107a03c7-...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
EDMONTON - Energy Alberta Corporation has chosen Peace River as the site of a proposed nuclear power plant.
Pollution roadblock may derail BP refinery of oilsands crude
Oil giant unable to strip out enough ammonia from wastewater
Joe Carroll, Bloomberg News //Thursday, August 23
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=23b91b...
BP Plc hasn't found a way to reduce water pollution that threatens to scuttle a $3.8 billion Indiana refinery expansion, the second-costliest project of its kind in the U.S.
