Just Make Sure No One’s Looking
Ottawa is preparing to relax regulations governing the release of effluent from some Tar Sands tailing ponds. It was bound to happen in the Great Northern Petro-State of Canada. Ottawa…
Athabasca Tar Sands
Ford Says Ontario Has Done Enough.
At least there’s something Doug Ford can thank his Liberal predecessor for – cutting Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions. He’s positively boastful about that, to the point where he’s shining an…
Those Ever So Tarry Sands
You know your country has descended into a petro-state by the arguments it invokes to excuse itself. The classic Tory line that’s now the Liberal line is that, gee shucks,…
Norway Shines a Light We Don’t Care to See
Little Norway and it’s big sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, are once again leading the way, this time by plunging into alternative clean energy investment. Not for the first…
Good News for the Environment = Bad Tidings for Prime Minister Pipeline
If it’s as good as they say it is – and, with these “breakthroughs” that’s always a very big “if” – the fossil energy industry could be kaput. Sorry, Justin.…
A Venture Capitalist on Why Kinder Morgan’s Pipeline and the Tar Sands Make No Sense.
The CEO of Chrysalix Venture Capital says “let’s get honest about the outlook for the Alberta oil sands and Trans Mountain.” In Wal van Lierop’s opinion, neither makes any financial…
Hey, Canada is in the Spotlight Again. In Case You Couldn’t Guess It’s About the Tar Sands.
The Guardian does like to periodically remind us that, when it comes to climate change, nice, decent, oh so polite Canadians are utter swine. And they’ve got a point. Justin,…
Lies. And Trudeau-Trump lies.
You have come to expect it in the daily reports from the American White House. You know that the man in the White House tells lies. You just do not…
Norway’s StatOil Bails on Tar Sands, Takes Half-Billion Dollar Loss
The Norse know a couple of things about oil – how to make money from oil and how to hold onto it. It’s how their government amassed the world’s largest…
Stephen Harper’s Oily Comeuppance
A Saudi prince once said that the Stone Age didn’t end because man ran out of stones. The Age of Oil may be headed for the same fate. A Goldman…
"Extraordinarily Dirty" – What Obama Thinks of Athabasca Bitumen
Barack Obama didn’t pull any punches in giving his opinion about Alberta’s bitumen. Obama said he was still not sure whether he would approve Keystone, the $8-billion TransCanada Corp. project…
Newsweek’s Obituary for the Athabasca Tar Sands
Is it time for the Barons of Bitumen to wave the white flag? That seems to be the case according to an article from the latest NewsWeek, “Keystone and the…
Whether You Support Pipelines or Not, Here’s Something We Can Surely Agree On.
No secret I’m opposed to both Kinder Morgan and Northern Gateway. A sizeable majority of British Columbians are of the same mind but a significant minority supports the pipeline initiatives.…
B.C. Economist Slams Bitumen Scam
She’s even using the “F” word, as in fraud. And Robyn Allan says the fraud, on the Canadian people, is being perpetrated by the federal and provincial governments, Big Oil,…
Washington and Beijing Talk the Talk, Now Must Learn to Walk
They’re the world’s two biggest national economies and the world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. It’s encouraging then that the United States and China have announced an agreement to…
There’s Still a Chance
Here's what you need to know. Today there is 25 per cent more atmospheric CO2 than there was in 2000.On the books right now are plans for the construction of…
Giant Tar Sands Lakes for Athabasca
Big Oil has figured out it’s way too expensive to fill in their bitumen mines with soil and far, far cheaper to simply transform them into lakes. Here’s the kicker.…
Hey Canada, Do You Really Want to Talk?
Having a conversation with a bitumen booster is like talking to a climate change denier. It’s impossible to have a broad-reaching discussion, covering all the bases. That’s because the Tar…
Bitumen’s Oh So Dirty Little Secrets
There are some things that never come up when discussing the Athabasca Tar Sands or shipping bitumen to China. The difference between bitumen and conventional oil never comes up. Bitumen…
Cooking the Carbon Books
Maybe it’s time to put a cork in China’s hydrocarbon pipelines. A study published in Nature reveals that irregularities in China’s energy consumption data suggest total carbon emissions from the…