Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

Land

Land, regardless of whether covered by forests, tundra or grasslands, is threatened by mining operations such as Alberta’s vast open tar pit operations, or through incredible networks of “right of way” cuts for pipelines that extend in the hundreds of thousands of miles, all told, and across the continent in four directions and to three oceans—either through feeding the tarsand operations with fossil fuel energy or through feeding energy markets from tarsand operations after production. In the case of pipeline right of ways, they can blast directly through mountains or be buried in permafrost if needed, to get the energy to move.

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National Energy Board schedules a hearing on Keystone XL pipeline project

CALGARY, May 12 /CNW/ - The National Energy Board (NEB) has scheduled an
oral hearing on an application from TransCanada Keystone Pipeline GP Ltd.
(Keystone) to construct and operate the Canadian portion of its proposed
Keystone XL pipeline project.

The hearing is scheduled to start on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 9:00
a.m. at a location to be determined.

The proposed project is a crude oil line that would run from Alberta to

Suncor Posts Second Straight Loss After Oil Plunges

Apparently buying out Petro Can wasn't enough...!

--M

Suncor Posts Second Straight Loss After Oil Plunges
04/ 23/ 2009
By Gene Laverty

April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Suncor Energy Inc., the oil-sands producer that agreed last month to buy Petro-Canada, posted a second straight quarterly loss after the global recession dragged down crude prices.

Leech Lake, Say No to Tar Sands Pipeline ( Indigenous nations in Minnesota)

Leech Lake, Say No to Tar Sands Pipeline
April 29, 2009

By Nellis Kennedy and Winona LaDuke

Keep your children close, your inhalers in hand and don't forget to stock up on drinking water, as a new pipeline is proposed for northern Minnesota.

Meeting set in Lindsay on Keystone XL pipeline project

Meeting set in Lindsay on pipeline project
Published on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
By The Gazette Staff

Property owners and others along the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline are invited to hear from experts on landowner alliances and pipeline safety Sunday at 6 p.m. at the Lindsay Community Hall in Lindsay.

Lindsay is halfway between Glendive and Circle on Montana 200.

Alaska Highway Pipeline competitors update legislators about progress

Despite the continuation of the little side show designed to make us believe that this pipeline is set to go to "markets in the lower 48", there is still both the maps of where the gas is to go (the Alberta Grid) and the basic math which tells us that the pipeline is *needed* in order to get to the production targets for the tar sands of Alberta-- over 5 million barrels a day of tar sands bitumen/ mock oil.

--M

Pipeline competitors update legislators about progress
GAS: Transcanada says it has expertise; Denali sees concerns with partnership.
Petroleum News
April 15th, 2009

Doc’s claims ‘hurtful’: O’Connor

Doc’s claims ‘hurtful’: O’Connor
CAROL CHRISTIAN
Fort McMurray Today staff

After three years of drawing attention to elevated cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan, Dr. John O'Connor now finds himself at a loss to explain “hurtful” comments from a Health Canada medical officer of health that he misreported the cancers.

Carbon capture and storage 'being oversold as a panacea'

The Hill Times, April 13, 2009
Carbon capture and storage 'being oversold as a panacea'
But critics and experts say there are geological risks, it's a waste of taxpayers' money and the 'economics are deadly.'

By Bea Vongdouangchanh

CN plans 'pipeline on rail' to tar sands

CN plans 'pipeline on rail' to oil sands

Diane Francis, Financial Post
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

CN could gear up its capacity to ship by rail up to four million barrels a day of oil at less cost and more quickly, bypassing the need to finance huge pipelines.Courtesy of CNCN could gear up its capacity to ship by rail up to four million barrels a day of oil at less cost and more quickly, bypassing the need to finance huge pipelines.

Stephen Harper announces cancellation of Earth Day

By rabble staff | April 1, 2009

LONDON, UK -- "Canada, among all the advanced countries, is best positioned to prosper and profit from the ecological crisis," announced Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper shortly after arriving for the opening of the G20 summit.

City councillor wants tar sands halted (Yellowknife)

City councillor wants tar sands halted

Tim Edwards
Northern News Services
Published Friday, March 27, 2009

SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - City council appears set to vote in favour of a motion calling on Alberta's government to halt new tar sands development south of the NWT border.

City council will vote on a motion next month which calls on the Alberta government to halt tar sands development until a number of environmental measures have been met.

Tar Sand Demands:

1. Public contingency plans for catastrophic breaches of oil sands tailing ponds.