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Syncrude Oil Sands Upgrader Plant
Syncrude Oil Sands Upgrader Plant.
Photo by David Dodge, courtesy of The Pembina Institute Copyright 2005
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Tyson Slocum: Big Oil, Hot Profits & Global Warming
Tyson Slocum, Director of the Energy Program at Public Citizen (http://citizen.org), joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio to discuss his report, "Hot Profits & Global Warming: How Oil Companies Hurt Consumers and the Environment".
The Five largest oil companies in the world have a combined profit of over $440 Billion since 2001. Mr. Slocum discusses where those profits are going, the mergers which have allowed them maintain access to Billion$ in govt subsidies and a first-hand account of the environmental destruction taking place in the Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada.
Interview with Gordon Laxer, Parkland Institute Director
Gordon Laxer is the Director of Parkland Institute, a non-corporate Alberta research network that studies public policy alternatives. Chris Arsenault interviewed Mr. Laxer in September 2008.
Juba Assessment Town Planning and Administration, November 2005 Draft
The signing of
Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreementhas brought with it the prospects for Southern Sudanese leaders to provide for a just and durable peace for their citizens.
Total Returns to South Sudan Post CPA to June 2008
The March 2005 report of the Sudan Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) estimated that approximately four million people were displaced from (or within) Southern Sudan by the 20 years of fighting between the northern and southern regions of Sudan. Following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January 2005, IOM calculates that both North-South and South-South return movements stand at almost 1.7 million
Shutting down the tar sands: Interview with Petr Cizek
Originally broadcast on Vancouver Coop Radio 102.7FM's Redeye.
"The Alberta tar sands cover a vast area of huge open pits and tailings ponds. The environmental consequences are enormous and make a mockery of any Canadian attempt to reduce carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Petr Cizek is a land use planner and author. He says that a moratorium on new projects will still leave us with an environmental disaster on our hands a decade from now."
Casey Camp-Horinek Speaking at Everyone's Downstream II
From Oil Sands Truth: "A moving speech by Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma on the theft and industrial devastation of their lands. Many Ponca are dying
from cancer in what is now Oklahoma´s refinery "hub". Now there are new plans for refineries to process tar sands bitumen from Alberta." Broadcast on CJSR 88.5FM Edmonton's Rise Up: Radio Free Edmonton
Oil Sands Truth
Based out of Edmonton, Alberta, "Oil Sands Truth exists to disseminate information regarding the environmental, social and economic impacts of tar sands development projects being proposed and currently in progress."
From the Bottom of the Pit
This is a chapter within the book, Extraction!: Comix Reportage, edited by Frédéric Dubois, Marc Tessier and David Widgington, and published in 2003 by Cumulus Press that discusses the dirtier sides of the Alberta Tar Sands.
