tar sands
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Tar sands ignored in year-end media round-up
The inexorable march of the calendar from one year to the next is always a good time for reflection, and the media always plays along with the rest of us. What was the biggest story of the year in Canada? Well, according to The Calgary Herald, the 10 biggest stories included controversial land deals, debates […]
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Cleantech momentum gives reason to be optimistic in 2011
Smart entrepreneurs see the "green" in green, and don't want to miss out on the next big industrial revolution transforming the global economy.
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Premier Stelmach, Please Read
December 21, 2010 Dear Premier Stelmach, Merry Christmas, Premier Stelmach, and health and happiness to you and your family. We have never met, but this is the first of many letters you will receive from me, each one accompanied by a great and important book. I must say, before I introduce the first one, that […]
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God Bless America
Like Native Americans in the nineteenth century, Imperial Oil must now see the Canada-U.S. border as something of a Medicine Line: On the American side, persecution; on the Canadian side, freedom. The irony, of course, is as grand as Imperial’s plan to transport hundreds of giant pieces of industrial equipment — most larger than the […]
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The Climate Post: Climate scientists: It’s war
700 climate scientists agreed to speak out as experts about global warming. Plus, coal enjoys November and the Copenhagen failure costs $1 trillion.
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American companies don’t want tar-sands oil on their logos, creating an opening
The most promising responses to the tar sands are the ones that shrink the demand for oil. Shaming companies that use tar-sands oil might help too.
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Tar-sands bathrooms are eco-friendly, which makes up for all that other stuff
Sorry, marketers, it's going to take more than biodegradable shampoo bottles and "Lakefront Property" signs to clean up the Alberta oil sands.
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Flying over the tar sands
More earth is being scraped, dug, blasted, and plowed in northern Alberta than anywhere else on Earth. Here's what it looks like up close.
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Farmers and travelers in a tar-sands boomtown
Stratospheric wages draw laborers from around the world to Fort McMurray, Alberta. So how does a booming oil workers' camp become a town?
