From Jansen, Sask.:
The oil industry suggests they will move their product by train if their pipelines don’t get approved. They should really be made to use safe rail cars.
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This (story through link) just confirms what I’ve argued for awhile. The Obama administration will take its own sweet time over the Keystone XL decision, especially if they are leaning towards approval. You don’t want angry enviros arguing before a judge that you short-circuited the process. I’m betting on nothing out of the Whitehouse until 2014. Because, try as they might, our government has failed to convince the majority of Canadians outside Alberta that we need a pipeline to the Gulf (or to the West Coast, for that matter): Astounding, really, most polls of Americans show a mirror image of this result. Mind you, their pipeline boosters are probably a little more talented than ours. TweetRemember the “Bitumen Bubble?” The “bitumen bubble” spin was unleashed by Premier Alison Redford during her January 24, 2013 televised address that claimed our province was in the midst of a fiscal crisis caused by the so-called “bitumen bubble” — the difference between the price Alberta can get for its heavy oil (Western Canadian Select) [...] “…it’s increasingly important that Canada move on one or more of the alternative pipelines to get our product headed Asia’s way. Canada’s own central and eastern oil markets are another option, but longer term demand growth there is also likely to be lackluster.”Its worth noting TransCanada Corps. stock price after yesterday’s announcement that they would push forward with an West-East line. A few twitches. So the market is unimpressed. That leaves The Harper Gov. trying to ram Northern Gateway and Trans Mountain down B.C.s throat. Still. I mentioned this a week or so ago; it was the fourth leak since February, and it looks like there will finally be some consequences: The National Energy Board has ordered Enbridge Pipeline Inc. to perform an engineering assessment on the Wrigley to Mackenzie section of the Norman Wells pipeline. [...] NEB spokesperson Rebecca Taylor said the assessment is part of a special order issued by the board. “The board remains concerned about the recent discoveries of small leak sites on Line 21,” she said. “That’s why the board has issued the amending order to Enbridge and required . . . → Read More: BigCityLib Strikes Back: Enbridge Springs Another Leak We recommend:Occupy Wall Street 1 Year Later: A Roundtable DiscussionOccupied Ottawa to celebrate one year anniversaryOn Wednesday in Ottawa, Occupy This!Liberal leadership race: Garneau calls on Trudeau to take a stand FBI knew of plot to kill OWS activists, remained silent The post Occupy Love (2013): Official Trailer (Video) appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. More on that Canadian oil wrecking what looks to be a pretty little residential street in the Arkansas Town of Mayflower. Don’t worry, American friends, there’s plenty more where that stuff came from. …its from Canada, and its come to town with a few days to spill. LyondellBasell recently announced its plans to nearly triple its tar sands refining capacity from the Keystone XL pipeline as protests escalate across the continent By: Tar Sands Blockade | Press Release: HOUSTON, TX – An activist with Tar Sands Blockade climbed a 50 foot flagpole in front of LyondellBasell’s downtown Houston office [...] The post In Texas, An Activist Climbs Flagpole, Hangs Banner Denouncing Alberta Tar Sands appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Green Party leader Elizabeth May says Prime Minister Stephen Harper is turning Canada into a “rogue nation” and the “North Korea of environmental law”. The Saanich-Gulf Islands MP was reacting to Thursday’s shocking revelation that the Conservative government last week quietly withdrew from yet another important international body, the United Nations [...] The post Elizabeth May: Harper making Canada the North Korea of environmental law appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. 
 africa, Alberta, Alison Redford, Canada, Canada Politics, climate change, Conservatives, Desertification, drought, Droughts, elizabeth may, environment, environmental law, Featured, In the world, Keystone XL Pipeline, North Korea, Paul Dewar, Rogue Nation, stephen harper, Tar Sands, The Ugly Canadian, United Nations Convention, united nations convention to combat desertification, World News Keeps tongue ‘tween teeth re Keystone XL during White House meeting. President Obama overheard: “We got drones, son. And Viking Alta. is not so far away.” From the National Republican Congressional Committee: Organizing For Action, the former Obama campaign apparatus made up of many senior officials, blasted the Keystone proposal in a fundraising email. “In an email to supporters, Organizing for America specifically mentioned Keystone and slamming members of Congress who hope to force construction of the massive pipeline regardless of what the administration says. [...] President Obama has remained silent while the group that controls his twitter and whose members pay for White House access bashes Keystone. [...] The President must either condemn their email or admit that he agrees with their . . . → Read More: BigCityLib Strikes Back: Reading The Tea-Leaves: Obama Signalling Keystone Rejection? 10 KXL amendment co-sponsors took $8 million from fossil fuel industry By: Jacob Chamberlain and Jon Queally | Common Dreams In a 62-37 vote late Friday, the US Senate passed a non-binding amendment calling for the approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Environmental groups and climate activists were quick to condemn [...] The post ‘Senate’s Big Oil Benefactors’ Slammed for Keystone XL Vote appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis.
350.org, Activism, big oil, Campaign Contributions, climate change, DirtyEnergyMoney.org, Environmental Activists, Featured, fossil fuel, Guest Blog, Hoeven Amendment 494, Keystone XL Pipeline, Lobbyists, oil change international, Senate Vote, Sierra Club, Tar Sands, United States, US Senate Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger We have been conned by the Oil & Gas crowd for so long it is often met with resignation. I mean other choices do we have? Truth is we have a great many choices especially if you target a substantial reduction say by 2035. A goal of a 75 percent drop would be about right for a start. It is time to accelerate investment into planet saving Research & Development and accept that we are destroying our planet with fossil fuel use. Alberta Premier Redford – Showing signs of desperation Governments in Newfoundland, Alberta & BC . . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: Alberta Premier Redford’s Desperation Is Showing! From this morning’s NY Times:Supporters of the pipeline have argued that this is oil from a friendly country and that Canada will sell it anyway. We hope Mr. Obama will see the flaw in this argument. Saying no to the pipeline will not stop Canada from developing the tar sands, but it will force the construction of new pipelines through Canada itself. And that will require Canadians to play a larger role in deciding whether a massive expansion of tar sands development is prudent. At the very least, saying no to the Keystone XL will slow down plans to . . . → Read More: BigCityLib Strikes Back: NY Times On Keystone XL: Pipelines Are A Hot Potato That Canada Should Handle
Kady O’Malley posted this shot from the Manning confab yesterday. I’m not sure if its supposed to be from a poll of all Canadians of self-declared conservatives. Either way it shows the Federal and Alberta government’s have been doing a terrible job pitching their various pipe-line projects. No wonder Preston Manning himself is trying to pitch a Green Conservatism. RCMP and CSIS treat peaceful protest actions and questioning the Harper Government as ‘forms of attack’, label activists involved “national security threats”, documents reveal. By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 22, 2013: The Harper Government is intensifying its attacks on environmental and other activist movements in Canada, according to documents released under freedom of information laws, the Guardian READ MORE
Activism News, Canada, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, csis, environment, Environmental Activist, Extremism, Featured, Government, Harper government, Harper vs. Canada, Inside Ottawa, Keystone XL Pipeline, national security, Natural Resources, Opinion and Analysis, Petro-state, Politics News, protests, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, terror identities, Terrorism, the guardian, The Ugly Canadian Nancy on the coordination of polling research between the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Environment Canada: Why is this interesting? Government public opinion research must be non-partisan. But here, the government was able to access partisan-oriented research. Second, Postmedia obtained this information via a federal access to information request. Guess CAPP’s stuff made its way in there enough to be covered by the request. All not appropriate. Some official types should look into this. That is all. By Sierra Club | Feb. 17, 2013: Washington, D.C. – Today, during President’s Day weekend, more than 35,000 people are marching to the President’s doorstep to support immediate action to contain climate change. People from more than 30 states across the country whose land, homes and health are being threatened by the climate crisis, as well as students, READ MORE …though it hasn’t got there yet. No good way to sugar-coat this (though the shill from CAPP makes a good attempt in the linked article): Two unsurprising facts noted in Mike DeSouza’s twitter feed. The Harper government knew about this last year, and they’ve told the scientists who reported it to STFU. Give it up for Mike DeSouza, the only enviro reporter in Canada worth reading. Forward on Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: Twitter Stream Tweets by @ClimateForward The Canadian Progressive recommends: HISTORY: #ForwardOnClimate Rally in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17 Canada’s tar sands are the fifth largest climate threat in the world Grammy-award winning rapper Eve to perform at Forward On Climate rally Forward On Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: PHOTOSTREAM The Canadian Progressive recommends: HISTORY: #ForwardOnClimate Rally in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17 We act not because it’s easy, but because it’s right. Thousands of people are gathering in Washington DC today to send a message to President Obama that clean air, clean water, and a stable climate are not negotiable – the Keystone XL Pipeline must not be approved. * This new video by NRDC and 350.org takes a cool, fact-based look at a hot topic – with current information on tar sands oil/Keystone XL. The video discusses current research from Oil Change International that shows that tar sands oil will produce even more carbon pollution than previously estimated. Link here for more NRDC videos on the backlash to tar sands oil. |
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