Derailing the Tar Sands Train Idea
The State Department missed the main point about the anti-KXL campaign – which is not about either pipeline or shipping oil by rail, road or tanker – it is about keeping the tar sands in the ground.
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The Missing Tar Sands Monitoring Data
A year after the the Canadians launched a monitoring programme for the tar sands, no data has been released.
Tar Sands Directly Hurting “Brand Canada”
Recently released documents reveal that the Canadians are worried that the tar sands have become a “totemic issue, hitting directly on Brand Canada”.
RBS Wriggles Over Tar Sand Investments
Has RBS stopped financing the tar sands?
EU Sees KXL is an Export Pipeline
Officials from the European Commission see Keystone XL as an export pipeline from America to the EU.
Nurses Say No to KXL
Yesterday, the growing anti-KXL campaign received a boost from what some may see as an unexpected quarter: National Nurses United announced it was now opposed to the pipeline.
Bankers Warn Oil is “Unburnable Carbon”
A report from HSBC suggests BP, Shell and Norway’s Statoil could lose some 40 and 60 per cent of their market value if “unburnable carbon” scenarios are put in place.
Canadians Continue to Undermine EU Climate Effort
Two Albertan government ministers will be finishing their latest lobbying tours of Europe this week after a ten day PR push to undermine the EU’s flagship climate legislation, the Fuel Quality Directive.
“We are in a car running off a cliff, and the car is running on oil”
These are not the words of a President talking about our addiction to oil, but an eleven year old fighting for our future. Obama’s second term inauguration speech yesterday made global headlines. But an eleven year old’s warning against the Northern Gateway pipeline in Canada is equally poignant and important.