A report released by the Water Monitoring Data Review Committee earlier this month refuted previous Alberta Environment and industry studies on the serious threat of water contamination stemming from tar sands operations. Read more…..
“In the hallways and offices of America’s capital city, a war is being quietly waged out of view of most Canadians and Americans. The outcome will decide North America’s energy future and its impact on the planet’s climate.” Read more.…
An evaluation of four main reports by the Water Monitoring Data Review Committee for the Albertan Government. The evaluation details the contamination of the Athabasca River system with metal and other chemical pollutants from the oil sands operations. Read more……
A battle over foreign environmental policies that target Alberta’s oilsands has spilled over into a meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and European Union President Jose Manuel Barroso, according to newly released EU documents Read more..
Europe’s trade and climate chiefs are preparing to take a stand against imports of oil from Canada’s polluting tar sands, despite fears the move might wreck a multi-billion dollar trade deal, according to EU sources and documents. Read more….
Canada has threatened to scrap a trade deal with the European Union if the EU persists with plans that would block imports of Canada’s highly polluting tar sands, according to documents and sources. Read more….
This document is the Proposal for Evaluating Upstream GHG emissions of Tar Sands as Feedstock for a notional European Refinery as defined for the JEC Well-to-Wheel Study. It conveys two main tasks both of which centre around reviewing the GHG […]
Canada’s exports of oil, gas, hydro and uranium are becoming more lucrative and desirable as protests continue in Egypt and the middle East. The timing is significant, with the U.S. poised to soon decide on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, […]
E-mail report on Pan European Oil Sands Team Meeting with outlines of participants including various industry representatives. Includes industry call for Canadian regulations.
