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WATCH: Greenpeace Spoofs Tory Oil Sands Ad Campaign

2013-06-06T15:03:42Z

Greenpeace has released a series of satirical videos that take aim at a Conservative government plan to buy ads touting the benefits of more developme...

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Theresa Wells: What the Hell is Going on in Fort McMurray?

2013-05-16T12:01:14Z

What the hell indeed is going on in Fort McMurray, you might ask. How did I get to spend time talking to Malcolm Gladwell, and Bill Cosby? What is bringing these people so far north? Well, what is bringing them is the Northern Insights speaker series from the Fort McMurray Public Library - but I think what is really drawing them in is the narrative of this community.

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Kevin Grandia: 10 Reasons Canada's Tar Sands Suck

2013-05-16T16:29:41Z

Pardon my french, but Canada's tar sands suck. As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in poverty. Here are ten reasons Canada's tar sands suck.

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Hannah McKinnon: New Website Launches to Counter Industry's Tar Sands Spin

2013-05-16T09:02:40Z

TarSandsRealityCheck.com, which launches today, offers fact-checked, easy to understand information about Canada's tar sands. Created by academics, ec...

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Cameron Fenton: If We "Go With Canada," the Environment Is Doomed

2013-05-15T12:30:50Z

Last week the world hit a new milestone. We crossed 400 parts per million CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere, 50ppm above what is considered a safe level. According to Canada's new advertising campaign website Go With Canada, our government is taking steps on environmental protection, climate action and industry monitoring. Reality paints a different picture.

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Adam Scott: Canada Pulls its Goalie on the Environment

2013-05-15T08:12:37Z

Canada's ability to oversee large energy projects is crumbling. No matter which way you look at it, Canada's regulatory system just isn't up to the challenging task of protecting the health, environment and economy of Canadians from risky energy projects.

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Pipelines Or Rail? Guess Which One Is Way Worse

2013-05-14T14:00:19Z

Bad news for Enbridge, TransCanada and all the other companies working to build controversial pipelines across North America: Pipelines spill three ti...

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WATCH: Tory MP Disses 'Oil Profiteer' Al Gore

2013-05-11T15:09:41Z

The war of words between former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and Canada’s Conservative government accelerated again on Friday when a prominent Conser...

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Caitlyn Vernon: B.C. Needs Leadership And Vision To Keep It Beautiful

2013-05-11T01:27:47Z

If we connect the dots between all the natural gas, coal and tar sands proposals in B.C., a big picture emerges and the choice we face becomes both stark and clear: B.C. needs a government with leadership and vision to make the hard decisions. The province needs courage to stop building pipelines that would put at risk thousands of jobs and lock us into global warming. We need stewards to protect our collective future wisely, by investing in green jobs and saying yes to a clean energy future.

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Kevin Grandia: Alberta Energy Regulator Gerry Protti is the Oil Patch Lobby's Golden Goose

2013-05-07T20:04:39Z

Gerry Protti, Alberta's new overseer of environment and safety in the province's oilpatch, has been central to a network of oil industry front groups and lobbyists for many years and it is raising the eyebrows of more than a few people.

Protti was recently named as the new head of the Alberta Energy Regulator, a new provincial agency whose mandate, is "...to provide for the efficient, safe, orderly and environmentally responsible development of energy resources in Alberta."

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Oliver's Oilsands Tour Ends On Defensive Note

2013-05-10T10:09:22Z

OTTAWA - Just as Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to the United States to win over hearts and minds on Canada's pipeline plans, his natural resourc...

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Tzeporah Berman: Why My NDP Vote Is A Green Vote

2013-05-09T01:08:41Z

In the past the BC NDP condemned the Liberal carbon tax policy without doing the hard work to address how an NDP government would address these challenges. Under the leadership of Adrian Dix it is now clear that an NDP government would take these issues very seriously and they have taken the time to carefully consider how the carbon tax needs to cover more greenhouse gas emissions to ensure that we not only reduce pollution but also build a stronger and more equitable economy for B.C. I'm impressed.

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'Oil Sands Karaoke' Finds Music (And A Drag Queen) In Fort McMurray

2013-05-07T15:33:44Z

Long before "Oil Sands Karaoke" director Charles Wilkinson was a documentary filmmaker, he was a musician. So getting to make a film about a group of ...

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Steve Horn: Digging Into TransCanada's Lobbying History

2013-05-02T18:30:13Z

TransCanada, the multinational corporation hoping to build the controversial northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline, spent over $280,000 on lobbying the U.S. government in the first quarter (Q1) of 2013, according to lobbying disclosure records.

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Kenneth P. Green: Why Oil Sands Activists Argue The Wrong Points

2013-05-01T17:29:12Z

Quebec's recent Earth Day 2013 celebrations saw a lot of misguided ideas being bandied about by environmental activists who are determined to radically shrink Canada's energy production and consumption based upon a single value: preventing climate change.

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David Suzuki: Canada Is Ready For a Transformative Energy Experience

2013-05-01T17:29:03Z

Some people think a widespread shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources is not practical or even possible. And so we carry on, rushing to squeeze every last drop of oil and gas from the ground using increasingly difficult and destructive methods like fracking, deep-sea drilling and oil sands extraction, with seemingly little concern for what we'll do after we've burned it all.

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Steve Horn: Study: 30 Toxic Chemicals, Some Carcinogens, at High Levels at Exxon Arkansas Tar Sands Pipeline Spill Site

2013-05-01T09:47:59Z

Questions include what exactly caused the spill, how big was the spill exactly, and how long did it take for emergency responders to react to the spill, to name a few. But one thing is certain according to the new study: For the residents of Mayflower, quality of life has been changed forever.

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A Line In The Oil Sands: 'By Gosh, Isn't Our Health Worth More Than Any Damn OIl?'

2013-04-27T09:18:15Z

Raymond Ladouceur remembers when he could dip a cup into the Athabasca River for a drink. He remembers when the trout and muskrats were plentiful -- a...

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Russ Blinch: Is Canada Now Openly Denying Anti-Pipeline Research?

2013-04-25T18:17:09Z

Jim Hansen, the esteemed scientist formerly of NASA, is spewing "nonsense" when he is talking about global warming and Canada's Keystone pipeline, according to Joe Oliver, Canada's Natural Resources Minister and former investment banker turned heavy oil mouthpiece.

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Joe Oliver Rips Into NASA Climate Scientist

2013-04-24T17:58:06Z

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver had harsh words on Wednesday for a renowned NASA scientist who spoke out against the oil sands.

Climatologist...

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An Earth Day Present From.. The Tories?

2013-04-21T12:15:07Z

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives have decided to mark Earth Day this year, launching a long-promised portal for public access to sensitive environme...

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Alberta Accounts For 48 Per Cent Of Canada's Industrial Emissions

2013-04-20T13:46:04Z

Alberta's industrial facilities are responsible for 48 per cent of all industrial emissions in the country in 2011, followed by Ontario at 19 per cent...

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Kenneth P. Green: A National Energy Plan That Could Work

2013-04-19T16:02:38Z

A National Post article explains that various energy initiatives, such as a plan to convert one of TransCanada's existing natural gas pipelines into an oil pipeline from west to east, came about through discussions with only the relevant parties, which enabled greater cooperation.

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Cheap Alberta Oil Meant For Eastern Canada Could End Up Exported

2013-04-19T15:36:41Z

CALGARY - The Conservatives in Ottawa are staunch supporters, the New Democrats have called it a "win-win-win" and the premiers of Alberta and New Bru...

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Steve Horn: Oops, Inc.: Firm With History of Cover-ups Hired to Clean up Arkansas Tar Sands Spill

2013-04-15T10:31:09Z

O'Brien's has had its hands in the botched clean-up efforts of almost every high-profile oil spill disaster in recent U.S. history, including the Exxon Valdez spill, the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, the Enbridge tar sands pipeline spill into the Kalamazoo River, and Hurricane Sandy.

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