Sables bitumineux : stop au monstrueux projet Frontier. Nouveau rapport sur les sables bitumineux : des milliards de financements contre le climat et les droits humains. 33 grandes banques ont accordé plus de 115 milliards de dollars de financements aux entreprises actives dans la production et le transport des sables bitumineux entre 2014 et 2017 (1).
Très émetteurs de gaz à effet de serre, extrêmement coûteux à produire et difficilement reliés aux marchés, les sables bitumineux font aussi partie des énergies fossiles les plus dévastatrices pour le climat et les populations autochtones. Pourtant, bien que des alternatives moins coûteuses et plus rapides à déployer existent, les financements accordés par les banques à ce secteur sur les 3 premiers trimestres de 2017 sont déjà 50% supérieurs à ceux engagés en 2016.
“Ces milliards démontrent que les financements des banques ne sont pas du tout alignés avec les objectifs climatiques inscrits dans l’Accord de Paris. Les événements météorologiques extrêmes s’accélèrent, les records de chaleur se succèdent mais les banques refusent toujours de perdre certains clients. Funding tar sands.
Climat: les banques continuent de financer les énergies fossiles - Page 2. Défendre notre fleuve. Complément d'enquête Total toujours roi du pétrole. Le dieu pétrole dévore le Canada, par Nancy Huston. LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Par Nancy Huston Je suis chez moi, et hors de moi.
En encourageant le développement à outrance des industries pétrolières de l'Alberta, Stephen Harper, le premier ministre canadien, met l'humanité en péril. L'humanité de ma province natale, et l'humanité tout court. La pouponnière de nos bélugas est menacée par la construction d’un terminal pétrolier à Cacouna: sauvons-les ! Non aux sables bitumineux ! Le projet Oléoduc Énergie Est de TransCanada transporterait 1,1 million de barils par jour de pétrole des sables bitumineux de l’Alberta jusqu’au port de Saint John (NB) d’où le pétrole serait exporté.
L'entreprise prévoit ainsi convertir un gazoduc existant dans l'ouest et en Ontario et construire un nouveau pipeline qui traverserait le sud du Québec ainsi que le Nouveau-Brunswick. D’une longueur de 4 400 km, ce pipeline serait le plus important de tous les projets de pipelines en Amérique du Nord. Canada’s energy officials take over job of protecting fish from pipelines. Why Canada sucks on climate change. If you were old enough to vote in 2004, then you probably remember the refrain “I’m moving to Canada!”
It was every disenchanted liberal’s threat after George W. Bush’s reelection. Wags even made a “United States of Canada” map, attaching the Democratic states of the coasts and Upper Midwest to their friendly northern neighbor. The sentiment was understandable. American liberals have longingly observed for decades that most industrialized nations are consistently ahead of the U.S. in adopting their preferred policies: universal health coverage, guaranteed paid sick leave, public child-care services, gun control, mass transit, and a price on pollution.
Saying we should be more like Europe may sound faintly un-American to some, and can prompt objections that our culture is nothing like that of, say, France or Sweden. Non aux sables bitumineux ! Native American groups increasingly at the center of fights over oil and gas. In the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries, European settlers stole a lot of land from Native Americans.
They killed them, they cheated them, and they robbed them of most of the continent. But they made one mistake. Back then good land was fertile land for growing crops. The Great Plains and interior West — dry, dusty, freezing cold in winter and broiling hot in summer — had little to offer. Aboriginal rights a threat to Canada's resource agenda, documents reveal. The Canadian government is increasingly worried that the growing clout of aboriginal peoples’ rights could obstruct its aggressive resource development plans, documents reveal.
Since 2008, the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs has run a risk management program to evaluate and respond to “significant risks” to its agenda, including assertions of treaty rights, the rising expectations of aboriginal peoples, and new legal precedents at odds with the government’s policies. September 29, 2013 - Stop Tar Sands Ecocide, Block Canada's Energy East Pipeline. Additional Background The Canadian government and TransCanada Corp. are actively promoting plans for the “Energy East” pipeline that would carry up to 850,000 barrels of crude per day, including tar sands, from Alberta to Eastern markets.
The $12 billion, 4,400 kilometer pipeline would lead to massive tanker exports from the Atlantic coast to send crude to the much larger and more profitable markets of India, China, and Europe. The 55-year-old Mainline natural gas pipeline would be converted to transport oil between Saskatchewan and Quebec and connected with new pipeline in the west to Empress, Alberta, and in the east to Quebec City and Saint John, New Brunswick. Disastrous pipeline spills in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Mayflower, Arkansas, highlight the dangers of shipping tar sands crude using an older pipeline not originally built for carrying tar sands oil. The filthy tar sand export pipeline would pose serious threats to local water supplies, communities, and coastal waters.
Canadian PM to Obama: Let’s make a deal on Keystone! Looks like Canada is getting desperate.
The country’s leaders and its oil industry really, really want the Keystone XL pipeline built so they can ship tar-sands oil from Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast. But the Obama administration keeps postponing its decision on the pipeline. In his big climate speech in June, President Obama said he would approve Keystone only “if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” TransCanada plans colossal trans-Canada oil pipeline. While the Obama administration dithers over whether to approve TransCanada’s planned Keystone XL pipeline, the pipeline builder announced Thursday that it will pursue an even bigger project connecting Alberta’s tar-sands oil fields with refineries in the nation’s east.
The 2,700-mile, $12 billion Energy East Pipeline would carry 1.1 million barrels per day, making it more than a third larger than Keystone XL, which is intended to carry 800,000 bpd. From Reuters: The line, which still needs regulatory approval, could be in service by late 2017 for deliveries to Quebec and 2018 for New Brunswick, potentially reshaping the Atlantic Basin oil market and opening up new markets for Canadian crude. Blame Canada: Greedy for oil money, the country is turning into a rogue petrostate. When I recently interviewed Canadian artist Franke James, whose outspoken appeals to her government for climate action landed her on Ottawa’s shit list, I was taken aback to hear her casually refer to her country as a “petrostate.”
I knew Canada’s been spending gobs of federal money to promote its tar-sands agenda, but I didn’t realize our mild-mannered northern neighbor was approaching the ranks of Saudi Arabia and Nigeria in its single-minded embrace of oil as the nation’s lifeblood. An unforgiving article in the latest Foreign Policy magazine lays out how conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been aggressively pursuing development of the Alberta oil sands and remaking the country in the political image of the George W. Bush-era United States: Over the last decade, as oil prices increased fivefold, oil companies invested approximately $160 billion to develop bitumen in Alberta, and it has finally turned profitable. Oil-sands expansion conditionally approved despite ‘significant’ effects on wildlife. Federal and Alberta regulators have conditionally approved Royal Dutch Shell’s multibillion-dollar Jackpine oil-sands mine expansion despite their findings that it would have a number of adverse environmental impacts.
A joint review panel, appointed by the federal Environment Minister and the provincial energy regulator, ruled that the project’s effects on wildlife and vegetation will be significant, but that it is nonetheless in the public interest. Alberta and Ottawa will now make their own determinations based on the findings, which come 5 1/2 years after Shell first applied to build the 100,000-barrel-a-day expansion. Shell’s Athabasca Oil Sands Project currently produces 255,000 barrels a day. The panel made 88 recommendations to governments and set out 22 conditions for Shell concerning mining, conservation, tailings management and other aspects.
British Columbia opposes big tar-sands pipeline. Climate Change Blog: RELEASE: Victory as British Columbia Government Opposes Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline. The decision means it is highly unlikely the Northern Gateway pipeline [ search ] - to carry Alberta’s filthy tar sand bitumen to China - will commence any time soon, and that it has effectively been stopped. Ecological Internet is pleased to have successfully been the first to lead international opposition to the project, achieving with many others the second major delay to the flawed proposal. Concerns expressed over the inability to cleanup spilled bitumen in water apply equally to the flawed Keystone XL pipeline, for which President Obama is now clear to deny approval. One down, one to go! By Ecological Internet, Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org. Pledge to defeat the planet-killing trade deal.
Enbridge launches multimillion-dollar ad campaign to combat B.C. pipeline opposition. Enbridge Inc. said Tuesday it is launching a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign in British Columbia promoting its Northern Gateway pipeline project in response to stiffer opposition than it anticipated over the $5.5-billion Alberta-to-Kitimat proposal. "You are going to see a much higher visibility for Enbridge over the next few days. In newspapers, in television and online," said Paul Stanway, manager of Northern Gateway communications for Enbridge. "It's become quite apparent that the debate has become a provincewide issue. " The same day Enbridge announced its campaign, which the company said will cost several million but less than $5 million, Greenpeace activists hung an anti-pipeline banner from the Lions Gate Bridge. Top 10 Facts About the Alberta Oil Sands. Canadian Oil Sands Flyover.
Canadian Oil Sands Flyover. Canadian Oil Sands Flyover. Feds ‘abdicate’ responsibility for environment, have no plan. Bill C-38: the Environmental Destruction Act. Packing so many attacks on nature into one bill, Harper bets, will confuse citizens. Here's what's at stake. Ominous omnibus: 70 federal laws changes within one bill, so why is Harper limiting exposure and debate? Usually when the Harper Conservatives bring in a new law, there is a big roll-out.
The prime minister or one of his heavy-hitters goes to a prime location, usually not Parliament Hill. A factory or a mall or a friendly backyard. Unlike the laws I used to study in law school, laws with names that sound like statutes, Stephen Harper's proposed legislation must go through focus group testing for the most "election-ready" phrasing. No Enbridge Tankers/Pipeline in BC Great Bear Rainforest! We are currently undergoing important site maintenance and will be back shortly. Thanks for your patience and please try back later -- we have some important campaigns to win together! Gateway Designed to Pump Far More Crude than Advertised. Pipes could carry 60 per cent more than now proposed. Result: hundreds more tankers off BC's coast. How many mega-tankers a day? If feds approve Gateway, they'll fast track later expansions, history shows. British Columbians are becoming more aware of two major oil pipeline proposals -- Enbridge's Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline.
These pipelines have been advanced by the government of Canada on behalf of large, multinational oil companies as well as the Chinese government's mega national oil companies, Sinopec, PetroChina and China National Offshore Oil Company. These are huge companies with a huge appetite for getting crude oil to Asia as quickly as possible. But Prime Minister Stephen Harper may need to do more than rush these projects through under cover of legislative shelter. Oilsands Advocacy and Memo. Documents show Enbridge concerns about Tides Canada. Oil firms aid federal Tories in selling EU trade deal.
Dina O'Meara, Calgary Herald; With Files From Postmedia. Published: Saturday, April 28, 2012 Representatives of Canada's energy services industry have backed the federal government's push for a trade agreement with the European Union, saying the deal will increase their competitive edge. "As an individual company providing services in the Canadian market place and marketplaces around the world, we understand the necessity and the importance of having a diversified client base," said Murray Cobbe, chair of pressure pumping giant Trican Well Service. "And I know our clients here in Canada when they go to export their product, be it oil or gas, they really understand the need for diversified purchasers.
" Emma Gilchrist: Prime Minister By Day, Oil Exec By Night. One of the most startling assertions contained in Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver's controversial open letter, which was released on the eve of public hearings into Enbridge's tanker and pipeline proposal to B.C.'s West Coast, concerns how he equates shipping oil to Asia as unquestionably being in the "national interest. " There are at least five key reasons why he's wrong. 1) Protecting B.C.'s coast is about protecting B.C. jobs. According to a B.C. government report, more than 45,000 people are permanently employed by B.C.' Tories accused of being ‘one of most anti-environmental governments in the world’ Canada's Economy: Pipeline Approval Necessary To Boost Employment, Government Says. * Endless debate on projects is unacceptable - minister * Environmental measures included in omnibus budget bill. Budget bill contains environment policy overhaul - Politics.
Www.imaginecanada.ca/files/www/en/publicaffairs/minister_kent_letter_05042012.pdf. Media Release: Imagine Canada Reacts to Budget 2012. PDF Version. Tides Canada recognized as leader in transparency and governance. Saskatchewan: Tar Sands. Energy Facts & Statistics: Saskatchewan. TransCanada Reapplies For Keystone XL Permit. Canada Minister: Opponents To Tar Sands Are Foes Of Canada.