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Tag: Oil sands
Climate Obsessed Canadian Regulator Crackdown on Oil Sands Financing
According to Canadian regulators demand for fossil fuel will collapse in the next few decades, raising the spectre of a resource industry loan default crisis.
Geopolitics, Oil, And The Ultimate Inevitable Celebration Of The Oil Sands
Mark these words: In 30 years, Canada’s oil sands, recently decried as a ‘carbon bomb’ and killer of the world’s climate, will be the most valuable asset in North America.…
Be Careful Who You Vote For
By Malcolm Carter, September 2019 Not everything in politics is easily understood or even meant to be understood, however some things are more obscure than others. Why, for example, does…
Oil sands crude pellets touted as cure for industry's transport headaches
From BNN.ca The Canadian Press A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta , The Canadian Press CALGARY — A…
Canada's Resources Minister Calls Out Jim Hansen
Retired NASA GISS chief James Hansen is Slagging Canada’s Oil Sands Again Canada’s Environment *Resources Minister Joe Oliver is calling out Jim Hansen for exaggerating claims that the oil sands…
Caution needed with new greenhouse gas emission standards
From the University of Calgary New model provides lifecycle analysis of ‘well-to-wheel’ oil sands emissions Policy makers need to be cautious in setting new ‘low-carbon’ standards for greenhouse gas emissions…
Hansen’s ‘Game Over for the Climate’ op-ed
This op-ed appeared in the New York Times today, and since it was written by a government employee, using his NASA title at the end of the article, I consider…
Keystone XL: Liberal activists plan civil disobedience outside White House
By Ryan Maue. Free publicity: Bill McKibben’s Call to Action: “I want to tell you about an upcoming action — it looks set to turn into the biggest civil disobedience…
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