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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Departure of Olympic 'Spirit Train' met with protesters in B.C.

PORT MOODY, B.C. - The departure of a cross-country rail trip designed to boost enthusiasm for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics is being overshadowed by noisy protesters.

About three dozen protesters attempted to drown out a ceremony in Port Moody, B.C., held to mark the departure of the Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) Spirit Train.

There were scuffles with police as officers tried to hold the protesters back, and one man was arrested and carried away by his arms and legs.

Evaporating credit to hurt smaller tar sands players

Evaporating credit to hurt smaller oilsands players
Consolidation expected amid lack of capital
Shaun Polczer, Calgary Herald
Published: Friday, September 19, 2008

Ongoing credit woes roiling global financial markets will make a big impact on smaller operators and speed up consolidation in the cash-heavy oilsands sector, observers said Thursday.

"Canada Tar Sands Oil Equals Saudi Arabia"-- Enbridge Plans

Canada Tar Sands Oil Equals Saudi Arabia
MINA, Canada - 16 Sep 2008

With Canadian crude oil becoming a far larger part of the future U.S energy supply landscape, the principal oil and gas pipeline system connecting the two countries is rapidly rebuilding its presence in Superior.

US Refinery Investments Align With Tar Sands Supplies to 2015

US Refinery Investments Align With Oil Sands Supplies to 2015
Posted on: Thursday, 18 September 2008
By Sword, Lindsay

The Contagion Spreads-- Producers Re-think Tar Sands

THE CONTAGION SPREADS
ALBERTA: As crude prices fall and banks tighten the purse strings, producers forced to weigh their options
NORVAL SCOTT AND DAVID EBNER
September 17, 2008

CALGARY and VANCOUVER -- As the U.S. banking crisis boosts borrowing costs and crude prices plummet on global demand fears, the economics of building oil sands projects are coming under pressure.

Boston ASPO: The Canadian tar sands

2006 Boston ASPO: The Canadian tar sands
Whiskey & Gunpowder / Energy Bulletin
November 13, 2006
By Byron W. King

Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear, And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear; With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold, A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.

County readies for Code Red, still seeing black (Keystone)

County readies for Code Red, still seeing black
By Janet Morales
Moberly Monitor-Index
Fri Sep 19, 2008, Moberly, Mo.

The Randolph County Commission is working with the City of Moberly to implement a countywide Code Red program. In May 22, the Moberly City Council approved a contract with Emergency Communications Network, Inc. to provide Code Red service to the city. The high-speed notification system was purchased at a cost of $7,500 to make emergency and other critical community alerts to residents within the Moberly city limits.

Alberta's ‘dirty' oil a sticky problem for Charest

Alberta's ‘dirty' oil a sticky problem for Charest
KONRAD YAKABUSKI // The Globe and Mail
September 18, 2008

If you had to choose between Alberta oil or crude from Algeria and Angola, which should you pick?

This is the decision Quebec Premier Jean Charest faces now that Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. has unveiled plans to pipe heavy crude from the Alberta oil sands to refineries in Montreal for the first time.

Arctic key to economic future, Russia claims

Arctic key to economic future, Russia claims
Randy Boswell
Canwest News Service
Thursday, September 18, 2008

OTTAWA -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev directed his top Kremlin officials to develop a comprehensive and assertive strategy to exploit the region's vast Arctic frontier -- including the demarcation of boundaries and the exploiting of polar resources -- echoing a key message of the Conservative government's re-election campaign.

Petrocan talking itself out of tar sands (The Massive Fort Hills Project)

Petrocan talking itself out of oil sands

Andrew Willis, September 17, 2008 at 9:09 AM EDT
Petro-Canada is talking itself out of the Fort Hills oil sands project.

The latest cost estimates on the project, released late Tuesday, highlighted a 50-per-cent spike in expenses over the past 15 months, on a project that was already projected to eat up $14.1-billion. Keep in mind: This initiative still needs approvals from both the Petrocan board and government bodies.