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The Keystone XL Pipeline: Not Needed, Too Expensive, Better Solutions Exist
By: Plains Justice | Paul Blackburn
Published: May 2010
The primary concern driving development of the Keystone XL pipeline is the ability to use U.S. Gulf Coast refining capacity to process tar sands crude oil, especially in the event of lost imports from Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria. However, other more cost-effective and environmentally responsible solutions exist including more flexible use of our existing crude oil pipeline system and energy efficiency efforts that will help consumers adapt to increasing oil prices.
Tagged with: keystone xl, pipeline, plains justice, demand
Tar Sands In Your Tank
By: Greenpeace UK
Published: May 2010
Exposing Europe's role in Canada's dirty oil trade
Tagged with: low carbon fuel standard, greenpeace uk, demand, low carbon economy
Tar Sands Oil Means High Gas Prices
By: Corporate Ethics International | Lorne Stockman
Published: May 2010
Tar sands (also known as oil sands) oil production is the most expensive oil production in the world. The Keystone XL pipeline will create significant over capacity for tar sands crude into the U.S. raising pipeline tariffs and adding to the already high cost of tar sands production. The growth in tar sands production needed to fill the Keystone XL pipeline will only occur if oil prices keep rising. Tar sands production exerts little if any influence over global oil prices because it maintains no spare production capacity. Tar sands production is a symptom of high oil prices and not a basis for lower prices.
Tagged with: keystone xl, pipeline, corporate ethics international, oil prices
Watered Down: Overcoming Federal Inaction on the Impact of Oil Sands Development to Water Resources
By: Water Matters
Published: December 2009
Watered Down highlights some of the most compelling testimony from the recent federal hearings by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. From its testimony, Watered Down derives the recommendation that the Government of Canada should live up to its legislative responsibility and substantially increase its role in protecting human health and the environment through the oversight and regulation of the oil sands industry's impact on fresh water resources and aquatic ecosystems.
Tagged with: stephen harper, public health, water matters, water quality
Energy Futures? Eni’s investments in tar sands and palm oil in the Congo basin
By: Heinrich Böll Foundation
Published: October 2009
Plans by oil company Eni to develop tar sands and oil palm in the Congo Basin risk irreversible damage to biodiversity, local communities and our climate, and break the company’s own guidelines, according to Congolese human rights organisations and their international partners.
Tagged with: canada, friends of the earth, congo, rainforest, africa
Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity
By: The Pembina Institute | Matthew Bramley
Published: October 2009
Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity is the first Canadian study of its kind to show regional impacts on employment and gross domestic product, and the first to comprehensively examine how Canada can meet a greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020 that goes beyond the federal government’s target.
Tagged with: canada, pembina institute, climate policy, greenhouse gases
Carbon Capture and Storage in the Alberta Oil Sands - A Dangerous Myth
By: The Co-operative Financial Services and WWF-UK
Published: October 2009
The study produced by The Co-operative Financial Services and WWF-UK debunks the idea, lauded by oil companies and the Canadian government, that carbon capture and storage (CCS) will significantly counter the high levels of greenhouse gases emitted in the production of oil from tar sands deposits in Alberta, Canada.
Tagged with: greenhouse gases, carbon capture and storage, wwf-uk
Does the Alberta Tar Sands Industry Pollute? The Scientific Evidence
By: Open Conservation Biology | Dr. Kevin Timoney | Peter Lee
Published: October 2009
The extent to which pollution from tar sands industrial activities in northeastern Alberta, Canada affects ecosystem and human health is a matter of growing concern that is exacerbated by uncertainty. In this paper we determine whether physical and ecological changes that result from tar sands industrial activities are detectable. We analyze a diverse set of environmental data on water and sediment chemistry, contaminants in wildlife, air emissions, pollution incidents, traditional ecological observations, human health, and landscape changes from the Athabasca Tar Sands region, Canada.
Tagged with: public health, global forest watch, environmental health, pollution
Financing of Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy by Canadian Banks
By: Prepared for Rainforest Action Network by Profundo economic research
Published: September 2009
The biggest impact that banks have on the climate is through their financing decisions. This report describes the impacts of bank financing on fossil fuel and clean energy development.
Tagged with: rainforest action network, renewable energy, canadian banks
Just Visiting: Stephen Harper’s Climate Insincerity
By: Environmental Defence | Matt Price
Published: September 2009
The report, released in advance of Prime Minister Harper's visit to the White House in September 2009, demonstrates the gulf between him and President Obama on climate change.
Tagged with: climate change, stephen harper, obama, whoisharper
