Oil sands get vote of confidence from China

Just this morning I was debating whether or not to invest in an ATB Alberta Growth Note with a 5 year guaranteed investment certificate (GIC), which enables Albertans to invest in Alberta's future, while investing...

Weekly Radio Spin: Raytheon and On

Listen to this week's edition of the "Weekly Radio Spin," the Center for Media and Democracy's audio report on the stories behind the news. This week, we look at nominating a military lobbyist, selling the auto...

Alberta's Oil Sands: Dirty Birds and Broken Promises

Inarguably, Alberta's oil sands are a boon to the Canadian economy: export revenues, jobs, infrastructure, attendant service industries... but this comes at a huge ecological price, preventing Canada from meeting...

Ecological disaster tourism - the world's most polluted tourist spots

Eco-tourism is slowly gaining groud as a way to protect and cultivate some of the most popular tourist spots around the world. MSN has put together some of the most polluted man-made disaster spots for you to...

Weekly Radio Spin: Like Ads, Only More So

Listen to this week's edition of the "Weekly Radio Spin," the Center for Media and Democracy's audio report on the stories behind the news. This week, we look at the cost of secrecy, "eco-driving" and greasing the...

Greenpeace posts sarcastic Travel Alberta website

Greenpeace has gone to a lot of trouble to get this website together.  "Welcome to Alberta: Canada's Rocky Mountain Playground-a carbon based, energy power-house", it begins.  It then goes on to suggest...

explore Alberta wants you to vacation in the oil sands

My wife and I are planning our summer vacation. I wonder if she'd go for this? Very amusing way of bringing awareness to the damage being done to the environment as the oil sands are developed. Thanks to Kevin Grandia at DeSmogBlog. In contrast to the claims made on the...

Will Alberta's Oil Sands Go Nuclear?

While the idea has been discussed and debated since the oil sands has come into existance, it looks as though Alberta's oil sands could finally be turning to, of all things, nuclear power to satisfy the outrageously large demand for electricity. The ambitious project,...

Grandmother Censored by Oil Giant

A feisty 85 year old grandmother from Colorado is finding herself in the middle of a David vs. Goliath media battle with oil sands giant Syncrude regarding a website she built to demonstrate the environmental...

Why Intensity Based Targets Are Useless

One of the biggest criticisms of the Conservatives' climate change plan is that it relies on "intensity based reductions" in greenhouse gases. In the real world, this means that industry has to use less energy for every unit (ex. one barrel of oil, one car, one...

Who Said It First

" The echo chamber of the Blogging Tories, the National Post and the New Canadian Government, having all the Alberta MP's , have now gotten through to their pals in the Media Room of Premier Ed Stelmachs office. Which prompted his latest Klein like outburst. But before...

Shower With A Friend

"That is Alberta Preimer "Fast" Eddie Stelmach's suggestion to Albertans. Big Oil is not responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, no siree, its you and me he says. Stelmach promised that his government will set mandatory emissions intensity targets this...

Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum Petro Tales

"One increases its investements in production and the other cuts investment in production and yet both can offer shareholders huge dividends. Without turning into Income Trusts."

: Dion Pro Nuke

"Liberal Tory same old story. Liberal and Conservative Leadership candidates; Dion and Dinning are the nuke twins. They want to use nuclear power in the tar sands."

Nuke The Tar Sands

"PC Leadership hopeful Jim Dinning and the Fraser Institute both agree we need to nuke the tar sands."

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