Oil Sands

Jan
17
2008

Controversial Kearl Tar Sands project goes to court

While Alberta Premier goes to Washington, the Kearl Tar Sands Project is going to court

January 14, 2008

EDMONTON - While Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is in Washington this week seeking to assure Americans that there are no environmental problems associated with dirty tar sands development, Canadian environmental organizations are going to court tomorrow to challenge a massive tar sands operation north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Imperial Oil's proposed Kearl Tar Sands project includes an open-pit mine that would strip 200 square kilometres of Boreal Forest and contribute to the devastation of the region's landscape and wildlife.

Ecojustice lawyer Sean Nixon will be in court on behalf of the Pembina Institute, Sierra Club of Canada, the Toxics Watch Society of Alberta and the Prairie Acid Rain Coalition, arguing that the environmental assessment of the open-pit mine project was flawed and that the project should be halted until a proper assessment has been completed. Read More

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Prairie Acid Rain Coalition
Toxics Watch
Jan
10
2008

First-ever Oil Sands Mine Environmental Report Card Reveals Weak Environmental Performance

Jan 10, 2008

Today, Pembina Institute and WWF-Canada released Under-Mining The Environment, The Oil Sands Report Card — the most comprehensive comparative assessment of 10 of Alberta's operating, approved or applied for oil sands mines. The mines, for the most part, get a failing grade. Read More

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Pembina Institute
Dec
04
2007

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Alberta's Industrial Heartland

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <h4>Presentation: Reducing Emissions from Oilsands Upgrading and Industrial Development through CO<sub>2</sub> Capture and Storage in Alberta&#39;s Industrial Heartland </div> </div></div>
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Dec
04
2007

Alberta Oil Sands Survey Deadline

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p>To date more than 3200 Albertans have taken part in the <a href="http://policychannel.com/cgi-bin/ciwweb.pl?studyname=OIL2&amp;Password=I211936&amp;Sample=1">Alberta Oil Sands Survey</a>. To give even more Albertans the chance to take part we are extending the survey for one more week. The survey will now be online until December 7<sup>th</sup>. Please take part and let us know how you think Alberta&#39;s oil sands should be managed. What priorities must guide development of this resource? How are the oil sands impacting our communities, environment and economy and how do we integrate policy development in those areas? </p> <p>To take part in this survey, click on this link and share it with your friends and contacts:</p> <p><a href="http://policychannel.com/cgi-bin/ciwweb.pl?studyname=OIL2&amp;Password=I211936&amp;Sample=1" title="http://policychannel.com/cgi-bin/ciwweb.pl?studyname=OIL2&amp;Password=I211936&amp;Sample=1">http://policychannel.com/cgi-bin/ciwweb.pl?studyname=OIL2&amp;Password=I2119...</a> </p> </div> </div></div>
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Nov
22
2007

"If Tar Sands is the Answer What is the Question?" with Elizabeth May

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p>Elizabeth May, leader of the <a href="http://www.greenparty.ca">Green Party of Canada</a>, will be at the <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?campus=1&sector=1&feature=11">University of Alberta</a> for a public lecture followed by a Question and Answer period on Tuesday, November 27<sup>th</sup>.</p><p>Please join us for this informative talk and a chance to meet Elizabeth May and Edmonton Green Party candidates.</p><p><strong>Suggested donation:</strong> $10<br /><strong> Contact:</strong> 780.44GREEN (780.444.7336)</p> </div> </div></div>
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Nov
13
2007

Everyone's Downstream: Tarsands Realities & Resistance

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <h3>Tar Sands Realities and Resistance</h3> <p>Conference to be held at:<br /> University of Alberta<br /> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br /> November 23<sup>rd</sup>-25<sup>th</sup>, 2007</p> <p>Everyone&#39;s Downstream will be a conference designed to explore the links between oppression and self-determination on many levels: indigenous land rights, gender, ecological rights, workers democracy, anti-racism and anti-border perspectives as they relate directly to the tar sands of Northern Alberta. Speakers from a multitude of indigenous nations, social justice groups, and environmental organizations will discuss the social impacts of the tar sands on workers, women, indigenous nations, ecology, migrant populations, homelessness, and the anti-war movement.</p> </div> </div></div>
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Peace & the Environment
Indigienous Peoples Issues
Nov
08
2007

Green Party of Canada Leader at Mount Royal College

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p>Elizabeth May, the former head of the <a href="http://www.sierraclub.ca">Sierra Club of Canada</a> and the current Leader of the <a href="http://www.greenparty.ca">Green Party of Canada</a>, will be at <a href="http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/">Mount Royal College</a> on Nov. 26th at 7PM to talk about oil sands development and water management. For more info, go to <a href="http://www.greenparty.ca" title="http://www.greenparty.ca">http://www.greenparty.ca</a>.</p> </div> </div></div>
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Oil Sands
Nov
06
2007

Greenpeace Opens Alberta Legislature Sitting with High Flying Protest

Greenpeace BannersEdmonton, Canada — Four Greenpeace activists suspended their bodies 138 feet over the North Saskatchewan River today to hang two 23 x 50 foot banners from the High Level Bridge in Edmonton. The banners depict the areas under current and projected tar sands development with the message "Stop the Tar Sands." They hang in full view of the Alberta legislature, which opened today.

"This government is recklessly pursuing the destruction of Alberta's environment and it has to stop," said Mike Hudema, Greenpeace campaigner. "Unless we act quickly, the tar sands will devastate the region's water supply, ravage a quarter of the province's landscape and ruin any chance for Canada to meaningfully tackle climate change. Read More

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Greenpeace
Nov
06
2007

Lunch by the Books: Energy, Sustainability, and Alberta's Future

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p>Diana Gibson, Research Director of the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/parkland">Parkland Institute</a>, will be giving the following presentation as part of this year&#39;s <a href="http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/arts/lunchbythebooks.cfm">Lunch by the Books</a> series:</p><h3>Energy, Sustainability, and Alberta&#39;s Future</h3><p><em>November 15, 2007</em> </p> </div> </div></div>
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Oil Sands
Oct
22
2007

Review panel actually plans sharp drop in royalties. Time to 'think like an owner'.

The Parkland Institute has published an Op-Ed on the Royalty Review:

Review panel actually plans sharp drop in royalties

To get its fair share, Alberta must heed Lougheed's advice: 'Think like an owner'

Gordon Laxer for The Edmonton Journal
Published October 22, 2007

Albertans have been led astray by the heated rhetoric around the recommendations of the royalty review panel's Our Fair Share. Rather than increasing royalties by 20 per cent as headlines tell the public, the panel's recommendations would, if fully implemented, reduce them by 20 per cent by 2016.

That's right. According to the review panel, its proposals would have Alberta collect $2 billion less per year nine years from now, even though oilsands production is projected to more than double.

Alberta would collect only $7.6 billion in 2016, compared to $9.5 billion in royalties in 2006. And that doesn't seem to take inflation into account, meaning that in real dollars the province's royalty revenues would fall more...

Read the whole Op-Ed at the Parkland Institute's website. Read More

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It is our understanding at the Alberta Environmental Network that Reconciliation starts with the land, and there is no Reconciliation until we have faced the Truth. While Truth is held collectively, we recognize everyone is on their own learning journey, at their own pace. Our work at AEN focuses on the lands outlined by the Province of Alberta, lands with which we are learning to be in kinship relationship, in the nêhiyaw (Cree) spirit of treaty-making. The lands we work for are described in Treaties 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10. The traditional keepers of this land are Anishinabe, Nêhiyawak (Cree), Dené, Dane-zaa, Nakota, Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda), Tsuut’ina, and Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy); this land is also the homeland of the Métis. We are committed to building meaningful reciprocal relationships, to be of service particularly to those directly experiencing the effects of oppression, genocide, and exploitation.