Canada is the only country in the world to ratify a Kyoto Protocol target and then simply walk away from it. And now, Canada is also working to actively undermine progress towards an ambitious, equitable, and legally binding international climate treaty. Learn more
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Canada’s Dirty Oil:
Breaking Our Addiction
With astonishing and disturbing new aerial footage from the tar sands region of Alberta, the new DVD Canada’s Dirty Oil: Breaking Our Addiction makes the case that the oil sands are a dirty, dangerous and expensive threat to America’s emerging new energy economy.
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Oil Sands Blog
Oil Change: North America’s oil industry is downsizing
By Alan Septoff | Monday, February 08, 2010
Two stories from Canada’s Globe and Mail this week highlight the emerging reality that the oil industry in North America is downsizing; although the commentary mostly misses the underlying trend that is staring it in the face.
Oil Change: “Shock waves of anxiety” over Shell’s tar sands move
By Alan Septoff | Friday, January 29, 2010
A few days ago, Shell made news by announcing in the Financial Times that they were scaling back their plans in the Alberta tar sands. That one of the world's largest oil companies sees reason to reduce investment in the tar sands calls into question the long-term profitability of the tar sands. It also weakens arguments that unconventional oil deposits, like the tar sands, are the way to solve U.S. energy security problems.
