Economics

Johann Hari: How much proof do the global warming deniers need?

Everything the climate scientists said would happen - with their pesky graphs and studies and computers - is coming to pass. This is proving the hottest year ever

Friday, 27 August 2010

West Moberly says Site C would power tar sands not homes

Monday, 30 August 2010

Amid a bevy of resource projects in northeast B.C., the West Moberly First Nation claims the province is green-washing its Site C hydroelectric project.

“It’s not clean and it’s not green,” West Moberly Chief Roland Willson told BIV in a recent interview.

The First Nation community is a member of the Treaty 8 Tribal Association near Fort St. John where dozens of companies are snapping up land to build the next shale gas well, coal mine or renewable power project.

Whatever It Takes:
Protecting the Tar Sands, Protecting Capitalism
Ryan Katz-Rosene

Something is rotten in the province of Alberta! And it's not just the tar sands. It's the way political and corporate elites do whatever it takes to extinguish potential threats to the bituminous megaproject. The attempt to protect the tar sands from criticism can be framed as a part of a broader effort to protect the ‘rights’ of private interests to profit from bitumen production.

September 27, 1962
Tar Sand Project Approval Starts New Era For Canadian Oil

BY: CARL O. NICKLE, Publisher of the Daily Oil Bulletin & Oil In Canada

In recommending approval of the application of GREAT CANADIAN OIL SANDS LIMITED for the first commercialscale development of Alberta's famed Athabaska Tar Sands, the Alberta Oil & Gas Conservation Board has made a vital and far reaching decision.

Pilot makes comment to passengers about tar sands.

American Airlines says it is looking into allegations against one of its pilots.

Bradley Everett was shocked with comments the pilot made on his American Airlines flight.

Updated: Thu Aug. 26 2010
ctv calgary

A Calgary couple is outraged after a comment an American Airlines pilot allegedly made over the intercom when they landed in Calgary.

The Republican Who Dared Tell the Truth About Oil

Matt Simmons understood the wages of addiction and wasn't afraid to sound warnings, even to George W. Bush.

By Andrew Nikiforuk, Today, TheTyee.ca

"A call to arms may be wrong. We may not even know who the enemy is. And maybe the enemy is us." -- Matt Simmons

Huffington Post
Posted: August 25, 2010 03:42 PM
Patrick McCully

Kyoto's Carbon Offsetting Moves from Tragedy to Farce

The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has long been known to be a honey pot of carbon credit income for cheating project developers. But a recent investigation commissioned by German NGO CDMWatch shows that the problem is even worse than many critics had feared.

Permits revoked for oversized shipments through ID

(AP) – August 25, 2010

LEWISTON, Idaho — A judge on Tuesday revoked special permits allowing a company to truck four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment through a federally protected river corridor, saying the state failed to address public concerns.

Second District Judge John Bradbury ordered the Idaho Transportation Department to review the request from ConocoPhillips again and to take action to ensure the safety and convenience of the public.

British oil company's Arctic find fuels hope of huge new reserves
By Daily Mail Reporter

25th August 2010

The Arctic is set to become the world's last dash for oil after a British energy company reported a discovery off the coast of Greenland.

Cairn Energy said it had found oil and gas bearing sands in one of its exploration wells, indicting there was an ‘active hydrocarbon system’ there.

The Edinburgh-based company is drilling in a basin the size of the North Sea, meaning the find is potentially of enormous significance.

Of the three supposed most incorrect statements listed here in this Tait article, I would assume that since the 3rd one is word for word lifted off of the front page of OilSandsTruth.org it deserves response.

However, since it is clearly designed to mock the tar sands critics, and to do so with the most far reaching split hairs, let us take up the first two points she critiques: