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RBS is blinded by its own corporate spin and greenwash
News Articles | The Guardian | Monday, March 15, 2010
You have to feel a bit of sympathy for Andrew Cave, the head of corporate sustainability at the RBS group (Response, 11 March). He berates me for claiming that RBS is involved in financing Canadian tar sand exploitation in Alberta. Sadly for him, the bank then chooses the very day his response is published to announce that it is opening offices in Calgary, the commercial centre of the oil sands industry.
Money spent on tar sands projects could decarbonise western economies
News Articles | The Guardian | Terry Macalister | Monday, March 15, 2010
-Production from tar sands will rise to 4m barrels a day by 2025 -Shareholders seek review of environmental impact of tar sands
Tar sands billions could be better spent
Media Releases | WWF-UK | Monday, March 15, 2010
WWF-UK and The Co-operative have launched a report showing how the massive resources being poured into environmentally damaging tar sands could instead be used to create green energy or to help meet global development goals.
Keystone Approved, Opposition to Enbridge Grows
Media Releases | Dogwood Initiative | Thursday, March 11, 2010
Hundreds of Canadians pledge concrete action to stop West Coast pipeline
Alberta Chamber of Resources says Alberta to change wetlands plan
News Articles | The Winnipeg Free Press | John Cotter | Thursday, March 11, 2010
EDMONTON - A group representing oilsands and other resource companies says it has convinced the Alberta government to change a plan that would force corporations to spend big money to restore wetlands ruined by mining projects.
BP sambas up with Devon Deal
News Articles | Wall Street Journal | Matthew Curtin | Thursday, March 11, 2010
Part of the transaction involves the $500 million sale of undeveloped oil sand leases in Canada to Devon. Devon is better placed to exploit the resource with a nearby project up and running. The oil-sands joint venture will also supply oil to BP's Whiting refinery just south of the Canadian border, which from 2012 will be to handle heavy crude.
Greenpeace gives Alberta premier photos of ducks in oilsands tailings pond
News Articles | Winnipeg Free Press | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Stelmach raised a few eyebrows when he told reporters earlier in the week that he hadn't seen recently released photos of the 1,600 ducks that died in April 2008 after landing on the sludge ponds.
British MPs turn up oil sands heat
News Articles | Financial Post | Carrie Tait | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
CALGARY -- British Members of Parliament have joined the campaign to force two of the world's biggest energy companies to provide more information on their oil-sands operations, adding to the pressure the firms will face at their upcoming annual meetings.
Alberta’s Tar Sands and the Dead Duck Trial
Opinion | New York Times | Green Inc. | John Lorinc | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
"In an Alberta court, the oil sands giant Syncrude Canada has entered the second week of a high-profile case brought by federal and provincial prosecutors over the widely publicized deaths two years ago of 1,600 migrating ducks that were trapped in the toxic sludge floating on one of the company’s vast tailings ponds."
Photos of dying ducks delivered to legislature
News Articles | CBC News | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The delivery of huge copies of photos of dying ducks to the legislature Wednesday kept alive the controversy over what Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has seen of those troubling pictures.
Tailings pond breaks law: federal officer
News Articles | Edmonton Journal | Alexandra Zabjek | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Syncrude not charged until 2008 duck deaths
Oil refinery threatens Loess Hills grassland
Opinion | DesMoines Register | Jim Redmond | Sierra Club | Tuesday, March 09, 2010
For three decades, Iowans have worked hard to save our state's surviving slivers of native prairie. Thanks to the Nature Conservancy, the beautiful Broken Kettle Grassland is Iowa's largest native prairie preserve.
