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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We need regulators, not cheerleaders
3 Feb, 2012   |   Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent and his Alberta counterpart Diana McQueen are expected to unveil a new Tar Sands monitoring program Friday afternoon. “It's time politicians put down their oil industry cheering pompoms and start enforcing the rules and regulations that are already in place,” says John Bennett, Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada. While Sierra Club...
Long-awaited Tar Sands monitoring plan to be unveiled
3 Feb, 2012   |   Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent and his Alberta counterpart Diana McQueen will take the wraps off a new oilsands monitoring program Friday afternoon. Environmental groups are anxiously awaiting the details of the plan which has been in the works for more than a year. The Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada says it's imperative the plan be totally independent of government...
Fired environmentalist sees conspiracy
1 Feb, 2012   |   A B.C. environmentalist claims in a sworn affidavit the Harper government labelled him and his organization, ForestEthics, an "enemy of the government of Canada" and an "enemy of the people of Canada" and threatened to pull the charitable status of its funder, the Tides Canada Foundation, because of ForestEthics' opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker...
New York's Little Revolution - H2O protection & fracking
31 Jan, 2012   |   From YesMagazine.org How the state’s fight for clean water is reshaping its political landscape. by Ellen Cantarow Document Actions Residue at a Marcellus Shale drilling site. Photo courtesy of Penn State This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains. Clean water should be a right: there is no life without...
"Scary time" for Canada
25 Jan, 2012   |   ForestEthics whistleblower Andrew Frank claims that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office is resorting to threats to quell environmental opposition against the Northern Gateway pipeline. There have been conflicting reports on what actually happened at Frank’s organization, but for others in the environmental community his serious allegations come as no...
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