Energy
Starting next Tuesday, the public hearings on Enbridge’s destructive tar sands pipeline comes to Edmonton and it’s important that we are there.
Don’t Tar Our Future or BC’s Coast
Rally at the Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Hearings
Wingate Inn (18220-100th Avenue)
Spread the word! Invite your friends to the Facebook event.
Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline is 1,170 km of potential destruction, proposed to go from just outside of Bruderheim, AB to Kitimat, BC. It would carry approximately 525,000 barrels/day of tar sands oil and 193,000 barrels/day of toxic condensate back along the same route to Alberta. The pipeline would cross the traditional and unceded territory of dozens of BC First Nations, over 1,000 streams and rivers – many of them salmon bearing – would go through the Great Bear Rainforest – the last remaining intact temperate rainforests on the planet – and would bring over 200 super-sized oil tankers through one of the narrowest and most dangerous straights in Canada. Every step on this path is a disaster waiting to happen. Each one would be tragic even before there is a spill. And each one can be prevented. Read more »
Wingate Inn
18220 100 Avenue
Edmonton,
AB
In case you missed it over the holidays, the Pembina Institute has posted four new employment opportunities:
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Technical and Policy Analyst, Oilsands Program (Calgary)
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Full-time Communications Lead (Calgary)
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Fund Development Manager (Toronto)
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Assistant Editor/Producer Multi-media —Contract Position (Edmonton)
A panel discussion with designers and builders.
Free refreshments. Free discussion.
Are net zero energy houses really net zero? Northern Alberta has at least eight net zero homes. Some of them have been in operation for two years. We now have some preliminary data. Are our energy performance modeling tools sufficiently accurate? What more do we need to do to optimize the design? What improvements are possible? What new technologies are becoming available? The Solar Energy Society of Alberta is bringing together a distinguished panel of builders and designers to look at how we are doing and where we are headed in our quest to build completely self sufficient buildings in our Northern climate. Read more »
CN Theatre Room 5-142
Grant MacEwan University — City Centre Campus
Edmonton,
AB
Sep 24 2011 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
Edmonton 350, a group of Edmontonians concerned about the environment, is organizing Moving Planet Edmonton, as part of 350.org’s Moving Planet day of action.
Scheduled for September 24, Moving Planet is “a worldwide rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis -- a single day to move away from fossil fuels.”
Here’s the schedule for the rally: Read more »
Alberta Legislature Building
Edmonton,
AB
105 Street & Whyte Avenue
Edmonton,
AB
