Description: Reactions around the web to Prime Minister Harper's attempt to package support for tar-sands oil within a proposal to President-Elect Obama for a new pact on climate change. Very few are buying.
1 - globeandmail.com: Ottawa swoops in with climate-change offer
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081106.CLIMATE06//TPStoryStraight reporting on proposal on climate-change pact from Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper Description retrieved from the page: The most authoritative news in Canada featuring articles... (show)The most authoritative news in Canada featuring articles from The Globe and Mail, breaking news coverage, national news, international news, sports, weather, Report on Business. (hide)
2 - A Climate Pass for Oil Sands? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/a-climate-pass-for-oil-sands/Sober description of environmental concerns; good reader comments.
3 - The Understory » Canada Wastes No Time in Pushing Dirty Oil on Obama
http://understory.ran.org/2008/11/06/canada-wastes-no-time-in-pushing-dirty-oil-on-obama/View from Rainforest Action Network.Description retrieved from the page: Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's... (show)Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. (hide)
4 - Obama triggers first environmental dividend | DeSmogBlog
http://www.desmogblog.com/obama-triggers-first-environmental-dividendDeSmogBlog's Jim Hoggan bought the spin a little too readily. Rapid tar sands development is just not compatible with any responsible energy/climate plan.
5 - Accidental Deliberations: Alone in the world
http://accidentaldeliberations.blogspot.com/2008/11/alone-in-world.htmlInsider-y comments on the proposal in context of Canadian politics.
6 - TreeHugger » Canadian Tar Sands Look Like Tolkein’s Mordor, Says UN Water Advisor
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/canadian-tar-sands-are-like-mordor.phpPicture worth a thousand words. (Note: the "before" image would show old-growth boreal forest -- a huge carbon sink, clean-water resource, nesting grounds of 40 percent of North America's songbirds and waterfowl.)Description retrieved from the page: photo: WWF-UK, from the report Unconventional Oil:... (show)photo: WWF-UK, from the report Unconventional Oil: Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel? Environmental Defense has called Alberta’s tar sands ‘the most destructive project on earth’, but perhaps the UN’s senior advisor on water, Maude Barlow, says it best. (hide)
7 - Switchboard, from NRDC › Liz Barratt-Brown's Blog › Environmental history to make in the 111th Congress
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/lizbb/environmental_history_to_make.htmlNRDC's Liz Barratt-Brown to the president-elect and the Congress-in-waiting: "Will our government continue to provide incentives to develop these high carbon fuel sources or will it put us on a path to develop a low carbon economy? We know that cleaner alternatives are available now, such as fuel efficiency, better public transportation, and renewable energy. And our latest national poll conducted on energy and gas prices shows us that almost 80% of Americans believe we need to switch to renewables too. We don't need these high carbon fuels as a "bridge" (giving new meaning to "bridge to nowhere"). We have the necessary technologies now to start to move America beyond oil."
8 - Switchboard, from NRDC › Jake Schmidt's Blog › Bad global warming deal proposed by Canada
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jschmidt/canada_get_your_house_in_order_first.htmlJake Schmidt, NRDC international climate policy director, neatly skewers the Harper proposal.
9 - RCI viva
http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/console/index.asp?langue=en&idEmission=1925Interview with NRDC's international-climate-policy guy, Jake Schmidt. Very informative.
10 - Trapped in Black Tar :: tyeebooks.ca
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2008/11/06/BlackTar/Published the same day as these accounts of the Canadian government's proposal is this review of Andrew Nikiforuk's new book "Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent." The book -- which grew out of Nikiforuk's OnEarth Magazine feature "Canada's Highway to Hell" -- is a devastating indictment of oil sands development in Canada. Description retrieved from the page: tyeebooks.ca, British Columbia's online source for... (show)tyeebooks.ca, British Columbia's online source for Book News, Views, and Culture, published weekdays. (hide)
11 - Canada's Highway to Hell - OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC - Fall 2007
http://www.onearth.org/article/canadas-highway-to-hellCanadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk reports from the front lines of Alberta's oil-sands boom. The portrait that emerges is nightmarish.Description retrieved from the page: Even sober energy experts wonder if Alberta has gone... (show)Even sober energy experts wonder if Alberta has gone mad as the province tears up a vast wilderness to get at the world's dirtiest, most expensive -- and perhaps last -- reserves of oil. (hide)
12 - Op-Ed Contributor (Al Gore) - The Climate for Change - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalinkIn Gore's rousing call to take on global warming and drive economic recovery through a massive effort to shift to a clean energy economy, he singles out tar-sands oil and other dirty fuels as the wrong path.
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