Economics

Greenpeace ends Alberta oilsands protest
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Protesters from Greenpeace occupied two dump trucks and unfurled a banner on the ground at Shell's Albian Sands oilsands site in northern Alberta Tuesday.

The Greenpeace protest at the Albian Sands oilsands site north of Fort McMurray, Alta., ended peacefully Wednesday afternoon after the company and RCMP agreed to let the protesters leave without facing any charges.

The deal was revealed after protesters met with Shell officials and the RCMP.

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.

No special treatment for tar sands
Sep 16, 2009
James Hansen
TheStar.com

In 1988, when I addressed the U.S. Congress on the dangers of global warming, I warned leaders that it was time to stop waffling. Humans were changing the climate in new and dangerous ways and we needed to take action. At the time, I knew we could expect stiff resistance from the usual suspects, but if you had told me that 20 years later, one of the most stubborn holdouts would be a self-interested Canada, I wouldn't have believed you.

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.

It was only a matter of time that the corporate media and their owners used resistance to tar sands destruction and death to raise the spectre of "terror". Let's hope that people are able to defend their civil liberties from this utter nonsense.

--M

Greenpeace protesters breach “secure” oilsands site

By Richard Warnica, edmontonjournal.com
September 15, 2009

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.

Syncrude pleads not guilty to duck deaths
September 15, 2009
ROLAND CILLIERS
Fort McMurray Today staff

Syncrude Canada is pleading not guilty to government charges laid as a result of 1,606 birds that were killed on the companies work-site last year.

Oil sands under attack on environment

The industry is accustomed to defending its image in North America, but it now faces a multifront war, with opposition growing from Norway to Washington

Shawn McCarthy

Ottawa — Globe and Mail
Sep. 15, 2009

The environmental battle over Alberta's oil sands is going global, forcing the industry to respond to new attacks on its record and putting fresh pressure on Ottawa.

Norwegian vote may kill oilsands stake

Statoil's Alberta role an issue in election

By Shaun Polczer, Calgary Herald
September 12, 2009

T he fate of Statoil- Hydro's oilsands investments in Canada could hinge on the outcome of Norway's general election Monday.

The presence of Norway's state-owned oil producer in northeast Alberta has emerged as a contentious issue in the country's bitterly contested vote, which some are saying is too close to call.

Herein is revealed the 'true' nature of the Green Shift-- a massive resource giveaway to the worst environmental criminals on the planet.

In glut, EnCana's big find untapped

Company won't develop third-largest field until demand recovers and that
will take a major market shift

Shawn McCarthy

Ottawa -- Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Thursday, Sep. 10, 2009
08:02AM EDT

EnCana Corp is touting the Horn River shale deposits in British Columbia as the
continent's third-largest natural gas field, but needs a fundamental