Energy

Abuse of foreign workers unavoidable, Alta. Tories suggest
Elise Stolte , Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008

EDMONTON - Some abuse of foreigners working temporarily in Alberta is unavoidable because of conditions in their home countries, Alberta's minister of Employment and Immigration suggested Wednesday.

Hector Goudreau was reacting to news that as many as 120 Chinese workers were paid a fraction of what they were owed for work building tanks at a northern Alberta oilsands site.

New warning from US climate change prophet
* Andrew Revkin, Washington
June 24, 2008

TWENTY years ago yesterday, James Hansen, a climate scientist at NASA, told the world that he was "99%" certain that humans were already warming the climate.

"The greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now," Dr Hansen said then, referring to a string of warm years and the accumulating blanket of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other gases emitted mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.

No one wants to be on the outside looking in. When there is a great issue and movement underway, most people-- certainly most people who are political in one form or another-- will do whatever needed to be relevant, to have a comment, to be a part of what is going on, shall we say. This is always the case in presidential elections. The article below has some incredibly good information and is a piece that contains very important information about the whole process of NAFTA, et al.

Prentice says Mackenzie pipeline will advance Canada’s interests
THE CANADIAN PRESS // 23/05/08

CALGARY — The Mackenzie pipeline — long beset by regulatory snags and cost overruns — will “undoubtedly advance” Canada’s national interests once it is built, but control over the project must remain in private-sector hands, said Industry Minister Jim Prentice.

Statimc Native Youth Movement Warrior Society St'at'imc Nation, Tsalalh
Territory

Re: 2010 Olympics

To Whom It May Concern;

Please accept this letter as a declaration of opposition to the upcoming
2010 Olympics set to take place within traditional St'at'imc Borders. Many
members of our Nation, including children, youth, elders and land users do
not support the Olympics taking place in Whistler for many reasons.

First being that Whistler and many other towns, cities and municipalities
are illegally occupied by foreigners and run by fraudulent government

TransCanada line put to federal watch
Jon Harding, with files from Gordon Jaremko, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008

After years of resistance, Alberta says it will let Ottawa oversee regulation of TransCanada Corp.'s inter-Alberta natural gas pipeline web, known as the Nova system.

Media advisory -
North American unions denounce privatization of Mexico's oil sector

OTTAWA, June 17 /CNW Telbec/ - While Mexico is steeped in an intense
public debate on the potential privatisation of PEMEX, a state-owned petroleum
company, North American energy sector unions continue to mobilize their
members and sound the alarm about the colossal loss that Mexico could suffer.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Communications, Energy
and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) have delegated Canadian lawyer

Bruce Power launches nuclear power feasibility study
Cassandra Kyle, Saskatchewan News Network; Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008

SASKATOON -- A feasibility study into the potential for a nuclear energy plant in Saskatchewan will be complete by the end of the year, according to the president and CEO of Bruce Power LP, a nuclear power producer in Ontario.

Canadians, Americans split on oil sands

NORVAL SCOTT

June 11, 2008

CALGARY -- A majority of Canadians and Americans see the oil sands as economically important, but Canadians are more concerned about related environmental problems, a survey has found.

The study, carried out by public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard, found that 75 per cent of Canadians surveyed, and 68 per cent of Americans, believe future development of the oil sands is a "good thing."

Bingaman Says Canadian Oil Sands Aren't Restricted by U.S. Law
By Tina Seeley

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. legislation prohibiting the federal government from buying alternative fuels that have higher greenhouse-gas emissions doesn't apply to Canadian oil sands, Senator Jeff Bingaman said.

``Producing fuel from oil sands is not a new technology,'' Bingaman said today at a meeting of the Canadian American Business Council in Washington. The New Mexico Democrat said he supports clarifying language that the House of Representatives has already approved.