Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

Social Impacts

Social Impacts. Overnight injections of migrant workers will not build healthy communities and can have severely adverse impacts on existing communities, especially those of indigenous nations on their traditional lands. Such development brings vices and long term displacement too often. Drugs, alcohol and associated violence spreads. Hunting becomes difficult when the land is threatened, leading to a further loss of culture and tradition. In towns like Fort McMurray there is no planning for the future, but merely consumption in the present. However transient the individuals may be, the populations will not leave, as “development” takes on a logic all its own. All levels of run away development are subordinate to that development, not social need.

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Edmonton 2010 "Spirit Train" Protest Full Length Radio Broadcast (CJSR)

http://www.cjsr.ualberta.ca/cms/news/news.php?s=riseup&ep=1377&

The above link provides:

Edmonton 2010 "Spirit Train" Protest Full Length
(CJSR Radio Broadcast, hosted by Aaron Chubb)

Tar sands stocks take beating as Connacher shelves expansion

Oil sands stocks take beating as Connacher shelves expansion

Carrie Tait, Financial Post Published: Monday, October 06, 2008

CALGARY -- Oil sands stocks were being clobbered Monday, an indication the market continues to doubt whether these companies will be able to secure financing to plow ahead with expensive projects.

Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd. admitted Monday it has shelved plans to expand capacity at its heavy oil refinery in Great Falls, Mont. It had wanted to jump from processing 9,500 barrels of oil a day to 35,000 barrels.

Dr Helen Caldicott: Truth is stranger than fission

Dr Helen Caldicott: Truth is stranger than fission
Helen Caldicott warns about the still-present nuclear danger

SCOTT HARRIS / scott@vueweekly.com

For more than 35 years, Dr Helen Caldicott has been an outspoken critic of the follies of the nuclear age, dedicating her life to shining a spotlight on the risks posed to human health and the environment by both nuclear weapons and the widespread use of nuclear power.

"Tar Sands Still Good Investment Long Term"

Canadian Oil Sands Looks Attractive Despite Near Term Risk
by: Kurt Wulff
October 06, 2008

We are committed to the belief that Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COSWF.PK) is an attractive long-term investment despite suspending our buy recommendations for near-term financial market price risk.

Advisory: Barriere Lake Algonquins peacefully blockade highway 117

Advisory: Barriere Lake Algonquins peacefully blockade highway 117:
Community loses patience with broken agreements and federal interference in leadership selection

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Monday, October 6, 2008

*Barriere Lake Algonquins peacefully blockade highway 117 in Northern
Quebec: Community loses patience with broken agreements and federal
interference in leadership selection

*Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - At 6:00am today, Barriere
Lake community members of all ages peacefully blockaded highway 117 outside

Keystone Pipeline plan concerns Highland officials

Pipeline plan concerns Highland officials
By Terry Hillig
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
10/06/2008

HIGHLAND — Officials are wary of a plan to build a crude oil pipeline beneath Silver Lake, which is Highland's public water supply, but City Manager Mark Latham believes an agreement can be reached with the pipeline developer that will protect the city and its residents.

Keystone Pipeline spokesman Jim Prescott says there is little to be worried about. He says the chance of a leak that would contaminate the lake is remote.

Protesting First Nations, Enbridge, may have a deal

Protesting First Nations, Enbridge, may have a deal
Friday » October 3 » 2008
The Star Phoenix

SASKATOON - An official for Enbridge Pipelines Inc. is confident that First Nations protests against the company will end later today after the sides reached a tentative agreement.

Foreign workers lured with lies

Foreign workers lured with lies
Wed, October 1, 2008
They or their families may be charged onerous fees back home, then told they have a debt to pay off here
By TAMARA CHERRY, SUN MEDIA

TORONTO -- The stereotype is a young woman forced to work in a brothel, strip club or massage parlour.

But reality cuts across all walks of life.

Nannies. Construction workers. Seasonal farmers.

Oil Shale: Viable Domestic Energy, Or ‘Dirtiest Fuel on the Planet’

Oil Shale: Viable Domestic Energy, Or ‘Dirtiest Fuel on the Planet’
By Jad Mouawad
September 30, 2008, 10:40 am

A ban on the development of oil shale — rock from which oil is melted and extracted for energy use — is about to expire.

After months of bitter wrangling, a quarter-century ban on offshore drilling along most of the nation’s coastline will expire at midnight tonight.

Six Ways Harper Is Wrecking the Economy

Six Ways Harper Is Wrecking the Economy
Myth of the good manager.
Need evidence? Look south.
By Murray Dobbin
Published: October 2, 2008
The Tyee

It's perhaps understandable that Stephen Harper is far ahead of his rivals when it comes to poll questions about who is the best at competent "economic management." Like George Bush in the U.S., Harper has deliberately framed himself as the "strict father" figure -- in charge, hard-edged, a firm guiding hand when things are increasingly uncertain.

Dion just seems inept, unable to capitalize on the Liberals' mythic record of the 1990s.