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.
EnCana sour gas leak under investigation in B.C.
November 27, 2009 |
CBC News
A safety investigation is being carried out by the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission after a dangerous sour gas leak from an EnCana pipeline forced about 15 northeastern B.C. residents to flee their homes on Sunday.
EnCana has yet to say what caused the leak at a well located about 10 kilometres south of Pouce Coupe, but officials have confirmed it was not caused by sabotage.
Dear Indigenous Environmental Network Ally,
With just two weeks to go before world leaders meet in Copenhagen to deal
with climate change, we’ve run out of time for compromise. Indigenous
Environmental Network will be supporting a delegation of grassroots
community leaders from tar sands affected First Nations to attend and speak
out in Copenhagen. They will call out the Government of Canada and big oil
for their continuing failure to address the concerns of First Nations
Peoples whose Aboriginal and Treaty rights are being violated by the tar
sands and by runaway climate change.
Province blasted for not sticking up for oilsands
By MARKUS ERMISCH, SUN MEDIA
18th November 2009
Alberta's government and energy industry must step up their listless defence of the oilsands and better fund their PR battle against environmental groups, says the president of the Alberta Enterprise Group.
"If we're serious about defending this asset, we need to spend some money on it," Tim Shipton told an industry conference yesterday.
"I don't see enough effort being made to position this as Canada's energy project."
Pipelines, Energy, Economy
DEREK BURNEY
WEB | November 17, 2009
Shortly after 9/11, a senior US official approached the Canadian embassy in Washington to ask whom in Ottawa he should contact regarding shared strategic infrastructure, such as pipelines and electricity grids. Presumably Canada is today better equipped now than it seemed to have been then to cope with the threat, however minimal. In any event, the issue of pipeline security needs to be placed in the larger context of energy security and economic resilience.
Canadians tour U.K. to raise oilsands awareness
Last Updated: Sunday, November 15, 2009
CBC News
Three Canadian women hope to raise awareness in the U.K. about the oilsands, and inspire citizens to take action.Three Canadian women hope to raise awareness in the U.K. about the oilsands, and inspire citizens to take action. (CBC)
Three aboriginal women from Canada are visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of a 10-day tour to raise awareness around human rights issues occurring in the Alberta tarsands.
Parks, a favourite PR cover for un-green things
By Peter Gorrie Environment Columnist
Published On Sat Nov 14 2009 // Toronto Star
MERIDA, Mexico–It was a rare sight: a hall full of environmentalists standing to applaud federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice.
Peak oil: what does the data say?
Terry Macalister, Guardian, November 13, 2009
The controversy over the International Energy Agency (IEA) figures has highlighted the peak oil debate. What do the numbers say?
The question is not if the world is running out of oil, it's when. There are finite quantities of crude even if the oil companies get the chance to dig up the Arctic as they are desperate to do.
Too fearful to publicise peak oil reality
The economic establishment accepts the world soon won't be able to meet energy demands, but wants to keep quiet about it
o Madeleine Bunting
o guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 November 2009
Big oilsands players looking to solidify holdings by gobbling up smaller stakes
By Lauren Krugel (CP) – November 11, 2009
CALGARY — Northern Alberta is a patchwork of motley oilsands properties, with some chunks controlled by energy heavyweights and others in the hands of smaller companies.
With virtually all of the premium morsels already spoken for, the map is expected change significantly as the bigger players consolidate their positions by gobbling up smaller holdings.
‘Peak oil’ closer than we think, says IEA mole
Oil gushes from a well
Whistleblower say phoney oil figures are being used to avoid panic on markets
By Edward Helmore
FIRST POSTED NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Despite the discovery of massive new, untapped reserves, the world is much
closer to running out of oil than official estimates show, claims a
whistleblower at the International Energy Agency in the /Guardian/.
The unnamed source claims the US has been deliberately underplaying any
potential shortage and, in effect, the IEA's annual Energy Outlook, expected to
