Oil, Tar and the Irony of Life
The question oil haunts us like a cancer cell. We try to avoid it but it keeps coming back. It seeps throughout the bowels of […]
Oil Sands
No Pipeline to the West Coast?
A slim majority of British Columbians support a proposed $5.5-billion oilsands pipeline to the B.C. coast, but opposition to the megaproject is growing, according to […]
The worst environmental disaster in a century? Gulf Coast oil spill…
As we watch the effects of the inevitable oil spill transpire in the Gulf Coast we have to ask ourselves yet again, is it worth […]
Alberta oilsands refineries could cause irreversible damage
The development of a pipeline network and refineries around the Great Lakes to process Alberta bitumen “could cause irreversible” environmental damage to the region, […]
Will Canada’s oil boom be an environmental bust? The new global wasteland?
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — The largest dump truck in the world is parked under a massive mechanical shovel waiting to transport 400 tons of […]
Tar sand investments now a dead duck?
As one Canadian newspaper put it. Ducks in Alberta died a crude death. One of the species of ducks that died on a pond filled […]
Mr. Stelmach may have failed to consider larger issues such as the environment
Preston Manning launched a broadside yesterday against Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, attacking the Progressive Conservative leader’s competence and predicting his electoral demise. The former Reform […]
Stupid to the last drop – Alberta oil thirst leading to disaster
The author of a new book on the future of Canada’s oil industry says Alberta is destroying itself in its rush to extract every drop […]