The battle lines are drawn, and Northern B.C.’s pristine wilderness is the latest front. With hearings underway into the proposed $5.5-billion, dual 1,172-kilometre Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project to transport… Continue reading Northern Gateway is about profits versus environment
Conference: Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture September 6-8, 2012 / Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta Keynote Speakers: Ursula Biemann, (video artist, Switzerland) Warren Cariou, (University of Manitoba) Allan Stoekl, (Penn State University) Petrocultures will bring together scholars, writers, filmmakers and artists from around the world who are engaged in an exploration of the social and cultural […] Continue reading Conference: Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture
In 2008, economics student Tim DeChristopher went to an auction set up by the Bush administration for the oil and gas industry. He bid $1.8 million for the right to… Continue reading Government of the people, by the corporations, for the corporations – Science Matters
Museum London Art Rental Gallery, located in London, Ontario will be presenting new works by Jill Price, a graduate of the University of Western Ontario visual arts. Her series entitled Global Landscapes: Oil consists of gestural landscapes designed to visualize how oil consumes our lives politically, economically and environmentally. Continue reading Global Landscapes: Oil April 7th till May 8th, 2011
Winnipeg – Canadian federal and provincial governments provided $2.84-billion to support oil production in 2008, according to study released today by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Continue reading IISD Report Reveals Subsidies to Canada’s Oil Industry
Image by ItzaFineDay via Flickr Edmonton – On the eve of a verdict in the Syncrude trial into the 2008 … Continue reading Shrinking environmental monitoring budgets in Alberta
With UN poised to blame global warming on fossil fuels, firm posts $40-billion profit.
Continue reading “Exxon’s ‘outlandish’ earnings spark furor”
Sierra Club of Canada welcomes the report released today from the Alberta Government convened multi-stakeholder committee on a vision for … Continue reading Welcome Vision for Provincial Oil Sands Strategy
The Conservative government Continue reading Secret deal compromises Canada
Thursday at lunchtime, it’s 4 Celsius outside Robert Mansell’s office at the University of Calgary, right in line with the balmy January temperatures straight across Canada, from Vancouver to Halifax.
If elected prime minister, he would deliver long-sought tax breaks to the industry, but only if energy projects produce close to zero greenhouse-gas emissions.
The chief executive for Shell berated Washington on Monday for spurning the United Nation’s Kyoto agreement on global warming, saying U.S. backing for a global regulatory framework would create incentives for oil companies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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