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Oil Sands

Daring Protest at Niagra Falls

Michael Brune | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Canadian Tar Sands, Tar Sands, Ccs, Oil Sands, First Nations, Climate Change, Oil, Carbon Capture, Barack Obama, Green News
Michael Brune

Tar sands oil production is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada and was recently cited as one of the most important reasons Canada will miss its Kyoto targets by over 30%.

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Top Canadian Banker Explains Green Strategy

Diane Francis | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Investment Banks, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Oil Sands, Canadian Oil Sands, Environment, Green, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Environmental Sustainability, David Suzuki, Financial Post, Green News
Diane Francis

Canada's banking system is one of the best regulated, and modulated, in the world, which is why no Canadian financial institution went bust during the 1930s Depression.

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China Is a Lousy Partner

Diane Francis | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Sinopec, Workplace Accidents, Labor, Oil Sands, China, Worker Safety, Business News
Diane Francis

Ottawa officials and politicians are encouraging Canadians to do business in China and with Chinese entities. But here's a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of doing business with the "Middle Kingdom."

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1,606 Ducks Died Landing On Toxic Waste Pond

AP | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Oil Sands, Ducks, Oil, Canada, Animals, Pollution, Green News

EDMONTON, Alberta — Eleven hundred more ducks died after landing on a toxic waste pond in northern Alberta last year than was originally estimat...

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Guest Blog: Dirty Candadian Gas vs America's Green Economy

Giles Slade | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Tar Sands, Oil Sands, National Geographic, Alberta, Bitumen, Green Economy, Environmental Destruction, Barack Obama, Pollution, Dirty Gas, Green Energy, Green News
Giles Slade

But replacing Arabia's tainted oil with tar sand bitumen is no pipeline to energy security. It's more like switching your family's mortgage from Countrywide Financial to Bear Stearns.

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The Moral Case Against Tar Sands

Ben Jervey | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Tar Sands, Climate Change, Canada, Carbon Emissions, Oil Sands, Fossil Fuels, Tar, Green News, President Obama, Environment, Prime Minister Harper, Alberta Tar Sands, Green News
Ben Jervey

If more people understood the conditions on the ground in Northern Alberta, the outcry against this dirtiest of fossil fuels would be a lot harder to ignore.

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Obama Calls Canada's Oil Sands "Dilemma," Like US Coal

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Canada, Oil Sands, Tar Sands, Coal, Barack Obama, Obama Environment, Carbon Emissions, Green News

OTTAWA — President Barack Obama, in advance of his first foreign trip, said Tuesday that Canada's oil sands operations leave a carbon foot print...

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Catholic Church Opposes Dirty Oil Sands Development

wsj.com | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Catholic Church, Energy, Oil Sands, Oil, Luc Bouchard, Canada, Green News

Bishop Luc Bouchard of St. Paul's Diocese, smack in the heart of Canadian oil-sands territory, has launched a broadside against oil sands development ...

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Mr. Buffet, Mr. Soros: Please Stop Investing in Filthy Fossil Fuels

David Sassoon | Posted 01.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Warren Buffett, Climate Change, Coal, George Soros, Daniel Rice, BlackRock Advisors Inc., Fossil Fuels, Goldman Sachs Buffet, Energy Investment, Oil-Sands, Bloomberg News, Global Resources Fund, Green News
David Sassoon

Buffet and Soros are men who could be showing us the way out of an endless fossil future. Instead, it looks like these men are showing us the opportunistic face of business-as-usual.

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