DeSmogBlog: Must Read Muckrake on the Whistleblower Behind the Enbridge Tar...
feature_enbridgemain.jpg On a midsummer evening in July of 2010, heavy crude started gushing from a 30-inch pipeline into Talmadge Creek, near Marshall, Michigan. By the next morning, heavy globs of...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Does Red Leaf’s "EcoShale" Technology Greenwash Oil Shale...
Red Leaf EcoShale.png At the Clinton Global Initiative in 2008, former Vice President Al Gore called the possibility of fossil fuel corporations extracting oil shale "utter insanity." Insanity,...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Everything You Need to Know About DilBit
Confused about diluted bitumen, the stuff Ottawa and Alberta are so determined to push through British Columbia? It’s not easy to find balanced information on dilbit so it was great to find a “Dilbit...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: InsideClimate wins Pulitzer Prize for reporting on...
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: On Monday, three reporters from nonprofit online news site InsideClimate were honored with a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Canada’s tar sands and...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Geriatric Pipelines?
An analysis of the pipeline failure that spilled 200,000 gallons of Athabasca dilbit in Mayflower, Arizona concluded there was a manufacturing fault in the pipe. Here’s the thing. The pipe that...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: And We Thought All We Had to Deal With Was Enbridge.
Nexen, the Chinese Communist Party’s anchor in Athabasca, is urging Canadian National Railways to start shipping bitumen by rail car to Prince Rupert where it can then be loaded on supertankers for...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Cognitive Dissonance is a Lousy Political Platform, Even...
Cognitive dissonance occurs when an entity embraces two or more contradictory beliefs or values at the same time. As social psychologist Leon Festinger showed, cognitive dissonance in an individual...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: Pondering a palatable pipeline…
I guest-hosted TWiE podcast episode 137 a few days ago, an episode devoted to the Alberta oil sands / tar sands. If you ask me (and I realize none of you have ) it’s well worth a listen! The week’s...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Whether You Support Pipelines or Not, Here’s Something...
No secret I’m opposed to both Kinder Morgan and Northern Gateway. A sizeable majority of British Columbians are of the same mind but a significant minority supports the pipeline initiatives. In...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Setting the Record Straight on Trudeau, Notley, Bitumen,...
What’s the difference between all-out nuclear war and catastrophic climate change? So far we haven’t been stupid enough to resort to all-out nuclear war. Both of them can end civilization, indeed most...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Great. Now Notley Imagines She’s Speaking for All...
Rachel Notley is taking to the interwebs in her war with British Columbia. If it’s war B.C. wants, it’s war she’ll get. Now the Alberta premier, speaking for Alberta and all Canadians (including you, I...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: The Perils and Pitfalls of the J. Trudeau Memorial...
To hear many east of the Rockies tell it, a dilbit spill in British Columbia’s coastal waters isn’t going to
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Norway Shines a Light We Don’t Care to See
Little Norway and it’s big sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, are once again leading the way, this time by plunging into alternative clean energy investment. Not for the first time Norway is...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: This Is What Gives Them Away
A lot of stupid people in Canada have come to think of Athabasca bitumen as “oil.” That is the single most important victory the petro-state has achieved. It’s not oil. It may be turned into oil at a...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: The Price Ain’t Right
Back in August of 2018 our federal government bought us a pipeline. Not exactly a bargain, it set us back $4.5-billion. The pipeline, the Trans Mountain, carries oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C. The...
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