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Category Archives: Tar Sands
Lawrence Solomon: The natives’ tools
Environmentalists serve native interests well, by extracting maximum profits out of resource developments. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Nature needs a hand
The tar sands sites will leave a lasting man-made legacy that will be more enjoyed by humans than the sullied lands they found. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Oil, Tar Sands
Tagged Climate Change, environment, Lawrence Solomon, oil sands, Syncrude, tar sands
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Parker Gallant: Environmental Defence, hypocrites or hypochondriacs
(February 11, 2014) Riddle me this! What do the Cement Association of Canada, United Steelworkers, Xerox and Middlefields Resource Funds (investors in oil and gas exploration and development) and Environmental Defence have in common?
Posted in Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Pipelines, Renewables, Tar Sands
Tagged carbon tax, Climate Change, green energy, Oil, Parker Gallant
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Lawrence Solomon: Environmentalists for a foreign agenda
(December 12, 2013) Canadians have no clue when the exhortations coming from Sierra Club, Greenpeace or the David Suzuki Foundation are financed by U.S. interests. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Quarantining Alberta oil
(April 25, 2013) Environmentalists are successfully ring-fencing the province. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Oil, Pipelines, Tar Sands
Tagged Alberta, Climate Change, energy self-sufficiency, environmentalists, Global Warming, Keystone, Obama, oil sands, pipelines, tar sands, United States
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Obama’s idea of weaning us off oil not in sync with reality
(March 23, 2013) For starters, writes Maine columnist M.D. Harmon, quoting Lawrence Solomon in the Financial Post: “North America’s reserves of oil and natural gas are substantial enough to turn it into an oil-exporting region within five years and let it become “oil self-sufficient” by 2035.” Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Oil, Tar Sands
Tagged green ideology, Keystone, Obama, U.S. oil and natural gas
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Did Obama just block Keystone?
(March 16, 2013) Deciding whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline is surely one of the toughest challenges of Barack Obama’s presidency. He hasn’t made up his mind yet, of course. Or has he? … maybe Obama is going to nix the pipeline outright. That’s what Lawrence Solomon predicts. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Obama will block Keystone
(March 14, 2013) Not needed for U.S. energy security or employment. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Tyranny of the north
(August 19, 2011) Venezuela’s dictator, Hugo Chavez, was in the news this week for brashly announcing an expropriation of the mineral rights of the citizens of his country. We don’t seize private property that way in our democracy. We seize it silently and in plain sight, as seen in the province of Alberta, which so deftly passed stealth legislation two years ago that most Albertans are only now discovering the government’s audacious takeover of their property rights. Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Power Industry, Climate Change, Coal, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Tar Sands
Tagged Alberta, carbon dioxide, centralization, Climate Change, CSS, Global Warming, Hugo Chavez, Lawrence Solomon, oil sands, sequestration, tar sands, transmission lines
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