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Canadas Tar Sands

Is Canada a Foreign Country?

Carl Pope | Posted 12.18.2012 | Green
Read More: Automakers, Mitt Romey 2012, Gas Prices, Energy Independence, Oil Prices, Koch Industries, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Oil Producers, Canada's Tar Sands, Elections 2012, Tar Sands, 2012 Election, Keystone XL Pipeline, Oil, Green News
Carl Pope

Tuesday night's exchanges on energy between President Obama and Governor Romney never touched on that point -- but its oddly crucial in understanding the Romney "energy independence for North America" plan.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Green News, Green, Climate Change, Green Living, Russia, Energy, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Latin America, Middle East, Oil, Catastrophe, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Canada, Canada's Tar Sands, Offshore Drilling, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Oil Dependency, Safety, Mutual Funds, Oil Dependence, Pension Funds, Atlantic Ocean, Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, Enron, Aig, Oil Gusher, Lehman Brothers, Black Gold, Electric Car, Civilisation, Government, Government Regulation, Man-Made-Disasters, Bp, Contingency Planning, Financial Crisis, Economic Crisis, Risk Management, Crisis Management, Marginal Cost, Risk Profile, British Petroleum, Admiral Thad Allen, Business News
DK Matai

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

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The Attempted Corporate Greenwash of Canada's Dirty Tar Sands

Erich Pica | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Environment, Canadian American Business Council, Oil Sands, Alberta Tar Sands, President Obama, Carbon Emissions, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Fossil Fuels, Canada, Global Warming, Tar, Energy, Climate Change, Olympics, Canada's Tar Sands, Green News
Erich Pica

The ad presents an image of the tar sands that looks more like a scene from The Sound of Music than the environmental crime scene that big oil corporations are actually perpetrating.

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President Obama: Don't Give Canadian Tar Sands a Free Climate Pass

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Tar Sands, Canada's Tar Sands, Global Warming Pollution, Obama Canada, Dirty Fuels, Global Warming, Boreal Forest, Environment, Climate Change, World News
Frances Beinecke

Tomorrow President Obama is traveling to Canada. Prime Minister Harper wants to discuss giving Canada's dirty tar sands fuel a pass from greenhouse gas limits.

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Oil's Big Dirty Secret as Producers Rake in Hundreds of Billions

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: M.King Hubbert, Oil, Peak Oil, Abiotic Oil Theory, Canada's Tar Sands, Opec, Soviet Era, Dneiper Donets Basin, Ukranian Academy of Sciences, Krayushkin, Big Oil, Kurdryavtsev, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Were we to learn that the supply of oil is limitless, the emperor's clothes would evaporate and the price of oil would collapse.

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