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Secret documents expose Ottawa’s tar sands enemies list
Minister Oliver has gone so far as to say that he expects the Joint Review Panel (JRP) to rule in favour of the Enbridge pipeline. Meanwhile, internal documents detailing the government’s strategy for promoting oilsands projects overseas, released by Greenpeace, labelled environmental groups, First Nations groups and the media as “adversaries.”
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Indigenous People: A Key to Environmental Rescue
Indigenous Peoples play a key role in having a vision for the economic paradigm of the future that will allow us, as human beings, to understand our role in the sacred circle of life.
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The Harper Offensive
An Oil Sands team, headquartered in London, has been run by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAIT) and is spread across eight foreign missions. They have monitored green activism, hired a PR company to try to improve “significant negative media coverage,” and shared “intelligence” with BP, Shell, Total and Norwegian Statoil, who they call “like-minded allies.”
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Durban COP17
Nothing will be different in Durban, but in the meantime all the worst tendencies in world capitalism have conjoined to prevent progress on the two main areas of COP17 decisions: financing and technology.
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The Keystone XL Pipeline: Part I
Some time in the very near future—perhaps as early as this fall—President Obama and administration insiders will approve the construction of the massive Keystone XL pipeline. With the stroke of that pen the gates will open to the flow of about 700,000 barrels of the most costly and toxic oil on earth from below the no longer quiet boreal forests of Alberta to Oklahoma and the Gulf of Mexico.
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A Tar Sands Partnership Agreement in the Making?
The Tar Sands lobby, environmental astro-turfing and the global implications of Canada’s Tar Sand initiative.
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Resistance to Pipelines Heats Up in Northern BC
The explosion of oil production in the Alberta tar sands has created a new push to build pipelines throughout North America. In northern British Columbia, most of which is unceded indigenous land, there are overlapping proposals for new ports and pipelines to transport tar sands oil.
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Finding the Movement in the Second Contradiction
An edited transcript of a panel discussion organized by Canadian Dimension at the Peoples’ Summit on June 19, 2010.
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From Cochabamba to Cancun
The Cochabamba Conference on Climate Change has issued a call to build “a global peoples movement for climate justice”. A novel feature of this call is that it is supported by progressive countries, mainly those of the Alba Alliance (Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, etc), as well as by social movements, primarily but not exclusively, from Latin America.
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Taking on the Tar Sands
In his first speech to a business audience after his election in 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s announcement that Canada was an “emerging energy superpower” signaled his government’s commitment to unflinching support for the relentless expansion of Alberta’s tar sands, primarily to supply synthetic crude oil to the United States. Since then, the tar sands have been the subject of extensive national and international media reporting, even receiving attention in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, where his staff disparaged the tar sands as “dirty oil.”
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