Energy Onslaught

 

Canada’s energy industry has an agenda that is at odds with our Kyoto commitments and will profoundly impact our environment.  Dirty oil, nuclear power plants and large scale industrial hydro projects are affecting our forests, water, animals, and lives.

Currently, Canada is home to the second largest reserves of oil in the world.  However, most of that oil is located in the Alberta Tar Sands and the extraction methods are anything but environmentally-friendly.  Oil production from the Tar Sands has increased over the years and is expected to produce at least 3 million barrels of oil a day by 2018.  Meanwhile, each barrel of oil requires up to 5 barrels of water.  In addition, it is estimated that the production of oil from the Tar Sands is up to 300 times more dirty than the production of conventional oil.  With growing energy demands in the U.S., more and more of our oil is being produced to be shipped down south.

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Protecting Marine Areas from the Threat of Oil and Gas Development
Tar Sands
 
 
Which way the wind’s blowing
15 Mar, 2010   |   It’s true Canada is the only industrialized country without a national plan to deploy renewable energy (Budget 'Walks Away' From Renewable Energy, Environmentalist Says – March 11). There was, however, a far greater environmental outrage in last week’s federal budget. Future energy projects will no longer be assessed by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. Instead, environmental...
Mackenzie pipeline streamlining raises fears
11 Mar, 2010   |   CALGARY - The federal energy watchdog has suggested streamlining conditions for the proposed Mackenzie natural gas pipeline, a move raising the ire of environmental groups. The National Energy Board proposed modifying 85 of 176 recommendations issued late December by a joint review panel on the social and environmental impacts of the Arctic pipeline. "In the (National Energy Board's) view, some...
National Energy Board Dismisses Panel Review Recommendations
10 Mar, 2010   |   Edmonton —Sierra Club Canada says the Mackenzie Gas Project license conditions proposed by the National Energy Board represent a rejection of the key findings of the environmental assessment panel. “We are disappointed and dismayed that the National Energy Board has brusquely dismissed four years’ work by the Joint Review Panel in its proposed conditions,” said Sheila Muxlow, acting director of...
AVATAR SANDS: First Nations Respond to Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
5 Mar, 2010   |   The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) has responded to the “Avatarsands” ad in Hollywood’s Variety newspaper, making a number of claims regarding First Nations. See: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2010/04/c6952.html Below are some of the First Nations response to CAPP: "We used to be able to drink water directly from Beaver Lake and it...
Oil industry disputes Avatar analogy
5 Mar, 2010   |   Oil producers are giving two thumbs down to an ad in Variety magazine comparing Alberta's oilsands developments to the environmental devastation caused by humans in the blockbuster movie Avatar. "We invite these activists back to planet Earth to discuss the appropriate balance between environmental protection, economic growth and a safe and reliable supply of energy," Janet Annesley,...
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