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No, Minister Oliver, the oil sands have not become ‘green’
Posted by Globe and Mail: Tzeporah Berman on March 9th, 2013
Globe and Mail: Many Canadians must have wondered if George Orwell was alive and well this week as they read that the Alberta oil sands were being pitched to U.S. officials as "green" by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver.
"Canada is the environmentally responsible choice for the U.S. to meet its energy needs in oil for years to come," the minister told an audience in Chicago - a message he repeated over and over in his U.S. tour, part of a calculated mission to associate Alberta bitumen with ecological...
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Canada: Let’s stop catering to Big Oil
Posted by Globe and Mail: Tzeporah Berman on August 1st, 2012
Globe and Mail: Big Oil must love Canada. Our Prime Minister has become an unapologetic hustler for multinational oil companies (as if the most profitable corporations in history really needed the help). Now the two westernmost premiers are going all High Noon to maximize their cut from oil-sands pipelines.
This year's premiers' summit turned into such a bitumen babblefest that it was shockingly refreshing to hear Quebec's Jean Charest make the obvious point that "you cannot disassociate the issues of energy...