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The Energy [R]evolution shows us how going beyond oil is possible. Today we took our message to world leaders at the World Energy Congress in Montreal. (Picture)

Syncrude Canada chairman Marcel Coutu stood before a business-friendly Vancouver lunch crowd and fired a salvo in defence of the Alberta tarsands giant's environmental record.

"A lot of you may not have heard about us until the last five years." Coutu told a Vancouver Board of Trade meeting Thursday. "There's been a lot said in the press, a lot of it not very flattering, and that's the reason why we've had to take up the communication task of countering some of those exaggerations."

Coutu, who also is president and CEO of Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., took pains to point to the environmental improvements tarsands companies have made over recent years.... Read more »

CALGARY — Oil prices jumped more than $2 a barrel Friday after an oil leak prompted Enbridge Inc. to shut down a major export pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Midwest.

Enbridge spokespeople did not immediately confirm the size or the magnitude of the latest leak, which happened in Illinois, but said the line was shipping about 459,000 barrels per day when the spill was reported.

Combined with its line that ruptured in Michigan in late July, Enbridge has shut in about 860,000 barrels per day of export capacity, or a little less than half of the 2.2 million daily barrels currently shipped from Canada to the world’s largest oil consumer in June, according to the U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration (EIA).... Read more »

This PDF document provides quotes which show misinformation and blatant government deceit around tar sands issues, such as the following quote:

“My scientists are telling me that the amount of compounds that can be detected in the Athabasca River at this point in time are not a concern and are of insignificant levels...The fact remains that there are naturally occurring substances in the water. And if we had never set foot in the region those kinds of results would still be there.”
– Rob Renner

Download the PDF here to read the misinformationa and the truth side by side.

Thanks to Greenpeace and all the quote providers for putting this together.