Climate Change / Emissions

The Most Destructive Development on Earth: Coming to Trinidad and Tobago?
By Macdonald Stainsby
ZNet
Sunday, May 16, 2010

The key quote in this article is here:

A spokesperson for Greenpeace said: "There is no agreement, but we will let you know when there is an agreement."

MS: Who gave them such authority? How on earth can they claim that the public-- or even their own sustainers-- gave them such a mandate? How can this possibly be a positive bent, when it essentially has the PR gain for industry of being "green" right when we should be ramping UP the fight against what is happening to our forests?

Alberta group makes case for oil sands

A delegation of business leaders is attempting to dispel falsehoods and
make the case for the oil sands to politicians in Ottawa

Nathan VanderKlippe
Globe and Mail
May. 13, 2010

A group of high-powered Alberta business leaders is in Ottawa this week on
what they are calling a “a trade mission to the capital of our own
country.”

Their goal: promote the oil sands as what John Ferguson, chairman of
Suncor Energy Inc., calls a “great Canadian treasure.” Alberta’s bitumen

North, South American countries to study heavy oil
Fri Apr 16, 2010

CALGARY, Alberta, April 16 (Reuters) - Energy ministers from North and South American countries with large heavy oil reserves have established a working group to develop better extraction and environmental technology, Canada's natural resources minister said on Friday.

Canada's tar sands: a dangerous solution to offshore oil

Alberta is the 'safe' option for US oil needs – but its tar sands are far more environmentally damaging than Deep Horizon

o Heather McRobie
o guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 May 2010

Speech by Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, before the G77 + China at the United Nations

May 7, 2010

I have come here to share the conclusions of the First World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, held last April 20th to 22nd in Cochabamba, Bolivia. I convened this Conference because in Copenhagen the voice of the peoples of the world was not listened to or attended to, nor were established procedures respected by all States.

BP investors must urge transparency
Catherin Howarth
guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 May 2010

We are going to the ends of the earth to find the next barrel of oil – but at what price?

The as yet unstoppable oil spill gushing from a deepwater rig drilling for BP in the Gulf of Mexico looks set to have dire environmental and social consequences – for fragile ecosystems and wildlife, and for local residents and businesses. And let us not forget the 11 people who lost their lives in the explosion.

Leave it to the tar sands industry-- including CEO Rick George of Suncor (partners with the Canadian Boreal Initiative and the Pembina Institute) to find a way to spin the disaster in the Gulf as a good thing for the tar sands players. Yuck. These people simply do not have any morals or scruples and know no limits to their depths (so let's partner up with them!).

--M

Gulf's pain oil sands' gain, experts agree

'In face of real disaster...pretty benign operations'

Carrie Tait, National Post
Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Nnimo Bassey, from Friends of the Earth Nigeria

I will not dance to your beat (a poem by Nnimmo Bassey)

I will not dance to your beat
If you call plantations forests
I will not sing with you
If you privatise my water
I will confront you with my fists
If climate change means death to me but business to you
I will expose your evil greed
If you don’t leave crude oil in the soil
Coal in the hole and tar sands in the land
I will confront and denounce you
If you insist on carbon offsetting and other do-nothing false solutions
I will make you see red

Combating climate change: lessons from the world’s indigenous peoples

Bolivia’s president says developing nations must not be shut out of international negotiations for combating the greatest environmental issue of our time.

Evo Morales
LA Times. April 23, 2010