Oil Sands

May
02
2007

Oil & Community Speaker Series: First Nations Communities Negotiate Oil and Environment

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p><strong>May 31 - First Nations Communities Negotiate Oil and Environment</strong><br />Melody Lepine, Director, Mikisew Industrial Relations Corporation </p><p>Join the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>&#39;s <a href="http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/arts/CSLhome.cfm">Community Service-Learning Program</a> and the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Eparkland">Parkland Institute</a> for a five-week speaker series that explores the impacts of the oil industry on Albertan communities. This series of talks is part of an interdisciplinary course at the University of Alberta that explores these themes by combining course work with community-facing projects in Fort McMurray. As such, the talks will pay particular attention to the impacts of the tarsands projects in northern Alberta on community sustainability. </p><p>This free lecture series is open to the public. </p><p><a name="dates" title="dates"></a><strong>Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30pm</strong><br /><a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?campus=1&amp;sector=1&amp;feature=11"><em>ETLC 1-013, University of Alberta Campus</em></a> </p> </div> </div></div>
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May
02
2007

Oil & Community Speaker Series: Is Nuclear a Solution to the Tarsands Energy Needs?

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p><strong>Is Nuclear a Solution to the Tarsands Energy Needs?</strong><br />Nashina Shariff, Associate Director, <a href="http://www.toxwatch.ca/">Toxics Watch Society of Alberta</a><br />Heinz-Jürgen Peter, Research Associate, Parkland Institute </p><p>Join the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>&#39;s <a href="http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/arts/CSLhome.cfm">Community Service-Learning Program</a> and the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Eparkland">Parkland Institute</a> for a five-week speaker series that explores the impacts of the oil industry on Albertan communities. This series of talks is part of an interdisciplinary course at the University of Alberta that explores these themes by combining course work with community-facing projects in Fort McMurray. As such, the talks will pay particular attention to the impacts of the tarsands projects in northern Alberta on community sustainability. </p><p>This free lecture series is open to the public. </p><p><a name="dates" title="dates"></a><strong>Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30pm</strong><br /><a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?campus=1&amp;sector=1&amp;feature=11"><em>ETLC 1-013, University of Alberta Campus</em></a> </p> </div> </div></div>
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Oil Sands
May
02
2007

Oil & Community Speaker Series: Immigration, Gender, and Labor Amid the Boom

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p><strong>Immigration, Gender, and Labor Amid the Boom</strong><br />Sherilyn Trompetter, <a href="http://www.changingtogether.com/">Changing Together</a><br />Jan Reimer, Provincial Coordinator, <a href="http://www.acws.ca/">Alberta Council of Women&#39;s Shelters</a> </p> <p>Join the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>&#39;s <a href="http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/arts/CSLhome.cfm">Community Service-Learning Program</a> and the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Eparkland">Parkland Institute</a> for a five-week speaker series that explores the impacts of the oil industry on Albertan communities. This series of talks is part of an interdisciplinary course at the University of Alberta that explores these themes by combining course work with community-facing projects in Fort McMurray. As such, the talks will pay particular attention to the impacts of the tarsands projects in northern Alberta on community sustainability. </p><p>This free lecture series is open to the public. </p><p><a name="dates" title="dates"></a><strong>Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30pm</strong><br /><a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?campus=1&amp;sector=1&amp;feature=11"><em>ETLC 1-013, University of Alberta Campus</em></a> </p> </div> </div></div>
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Labour & the Environment
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May
02
2007

Oil & Community Speaker Series: The Impacts of the Boom on Fort McMurray

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p>Join the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca">University of Alberta</a>&#39;s <a href="http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/arts/CSLhome.cfm">Community Service-Learning Program</a> and the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~parkland">Parkland Institute</a> for a five-week speaker series that explores the impacts of the oil industry on Albertan communities. This series of talks is part of an interdisciplinary course at the University of Alberta that explores these themes by combining course work with community-facing projects in Fort McMurray. As such, the talks will pay particular attention to the impacts of the tarsands projects in northern Alberta on community sustainability. </p><p>This free lecture series is open to the public. </p><p><a name="dates" title="dates"></a><strong>Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30pm</strong><br /><a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?campus=1&amp;sector=1&amp;feature=11"><em>ETLC 1-013, University of Alberta Campus</em></a> </p> </div> </div></div>
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May
02
2007

Oil & Community: The Art & Science of Sustainability

Join the University of Alberta's Community Service-Learning Program and the Parkland Institute for a five-week speaker series that explores the impacts of the oil industry on Albertan communities. This series of talks is part of an interdisciplinary course at the University of Alberta that explores these themes by combining course work with community-facing projects in Fort McMurray. As such, the talks will pay particular attention to the impacts of the tarsands projects in northern Alberta on community sustainability.

This free lecture series is open to the public. Dates and topics below.

Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30pm
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Oil Sands
Sustainable Communities
Apr
24
2007

Call for Oil Sands Moratorium Grows Louder

Alberta Wilderness Association

News Release: April 23, 2007

As the second round of province-wide oil sands consultations draws to a close, the call for a temporary reprieve from new oil sands leases and approvals increases. In its second presentation to the Oil Sands Consultation Panel in Calgary today, Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) added its voice to those asking for a moratorium on oil sands activities, for new protected areas in oil sands regions, and for an overarching provincial land and resources management plan that effectively addresses cumulative impacts. Read More

Wilderness & Parks
Environmental Law & Policy
Oil Sands
Alberta Wilderness Association
Apr
06
2007

Albertans asked for input on province's energy royalty regime

Website and public meetings part of royalty review

April 5, 2007

Edmonton...Albertans are being encouraged to make submissions to the expert panel currently reviewing the province's royalty and tax regime for energy resources.

Five public meetings have been scheduled to gather input from interested Albertans and key stakeholders, and a newly established website will allow submissions to be made online. Read More

Economics
Conventional Oil & Gas
Oil Sands
Apr
06
2007

A&WMA / CPANS Luncheon - Update: Oil Sands Consultation

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-2"><div class="form-item"> <label>Location: </label> Edmonton </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p><a href="http://www.cpans.org">Air &amp; Waste Management Association<br />Canadian Prairie and Northern Section</a></p><h3>About the Presentation</h3><p>Based on the recommendations from the MLA-led Oil Sands Consultation Advisory Group, the <a href="http://www.oilsandsconsultations.gov.ab.ca/committee.html">Multistakeholder Committee (MSC)</a> was formed to lead a public consultation on the development of Alberta’s oil sands. Recommendations and discussions of issues related to oil sands development will be submitted to the Ministers of Energy, Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. </p> </div> </div></div>
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Apr
02
2007

Environment Groups Sue to Block Federal Reliance on "Phantom" Mitigation for the Oil Sands

Media Release

Mar 30, 2007

Sierra Legal, on behalf of a coalition of environmental organizations, filed an application yesterday for a Federal Court judicial review of the Joint Panel report assessing the Imperial Oil Kearl Oil Sands project north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

The Pembina Institute, Sierra Club of Canada, the Toxics Watch Society of Alberta, the Prairie Acid Rain Coalition and Sierra Legal will argue that the Joint Panel failed to properly do its job, and that a proper environmental review must take place before the federal government can decide whether to allow the Kearl Oil Sands project to proceed. Read More

Environmental Law & Policy
Oil Sands
Sierra Club of Canada
Pembina Institute
Prairie Acid Rain Coalition
Toxics Watch

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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.