US pipeline protester has ‘no regrets’ after conviction for felony obstruction #ClimateCrisis #tarsands #indigenous #injustice

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/mylene-vialard-us-pipeline-protester-convicted?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@sjpyne how's that #TarSands mining operation going?

Do you know Fort McMurray? It's at the heart of the Alberta Athabasca Tar Sands.

Sentinel image from May 21. If an out of control spring wildfire in the middle of Canada's boreal forest doesn't freak you out, what will?

#Alberta #Tarsands #climatechange

Next Thursday, solidarity rally in #Ottawa to support the Indigenous Nations impacted by the recent #ImperialOildisaster in #tarsands - which spilled over 5.3 million litres of toxic waste into the lands & 💧 of downstream Indigenous communities. @KeepersOfWater #ClimateStrike #FossilFuelTreaty #StopTheMoneyPipeline #JustTransition #Climate #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #BiodiversityEmergency https://twitter.com/envirodefence/status/1646968543295033365?s=20

Sign the petition to demand that government officials shut down the dangerous Kearl oil sands project now: http://sumof.us/797478188t?referring_akid=120139.2342095.xxTTD_&referring_source=fwd
#petition #canada #oil #tarsands

Making environmental refugees of indigenous people in Canada... You know ... one of the richest countries in the world, with a relatively small population to support and still we just make it easier to make a profit and harder for ordinary people in every day in every way. And even worse for black and Indigenous folk!

#climatechange #indigneous #oilsands #leaveitintheground #tarsands #canpoli #cdnpoli #landback #reparations

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/we-are-probably-going-to-be-the-first-oil-sands-environmental-refugees

@cbcworld oh look, #environment damage by the #tarsands

Glad the US stopped being a part of this. Sad Canada didn't.

As Luke Goldstein writes for *The American Prospect*, both companies spent millions in 2020 and 2022 on campaign contributions to "grease the skids" for the merger - in particular, ensuring that the combined company could transport Alberta #TarSands oil (the filthiest, most energy intensive oil in the world) to US ports.

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#Governments #worldwide are eager to attend #global #climate meetings to solidify their #environmental commitment. Their #political #agendas , however, rarely mirror anything near what they profess.

Whether it's #CliimateChange , #Canada ’s #international #mining , #BritishColumbia #OldGrowth #forests , #TarSands, #LaBayDuNord - outcome will be the same. There isn’t an area in this, or in most other jurisdictions, that isn’t under some form of environmental attack.

https://www.westmountmag.ca/ecological-hypocrisy-and-point-of-no-return/

#Methane detection is getting better:

"This latest research looked at oil production facilities in Saskatchewan and found that methane pollution from specific types of heavy oil sites was four times higher than what industry reports. Nearly a thousand facilities were emitting over ten tonnes of pollution an hour, meanwhile the government reports less than three tonnes from these same sites."

#ClimateChange #TarSands #Canada
https://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2023/02/21/new-study-underscores-need-for-better-methane-measurement-and-strong-regulations/

"Did you hear about the recent leak from #ImperialOil’s tailings “pond” in #Alberta? Over 5.3 million litres of #toxic #wastewater spilled into the environment – enough to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools. This leak adds to the evidence that oil production in #Canada’s #tarsands is unsafe and harms #biodiversity and downstream #Indigenous communities." https://environmentaldefence.ca/2023/02/21/imperial-oils-latest-toxic-tailings-pond-leak-must-be-a-wake-up-call-for-governments/

#BigOil #EcoCriminals #abpoli #cdnpoli

Another example of #CorporateCapture, #Alberta's #UCP and #AER are handservants to #BigOil. https://globalnews.ca/news/9483698/imperial-oil-oilsands-tailings-leak-cleanup-plan/

#abpoli #ecosystemsDestruction #oilSpills #TarSands

@breadandcircuses Title: Raped on our Watch 2012. #DigitalArt #tarsands #sketchbook

Mijn #mijn van deze dag.

Horizon, #Canada

#mijnbouw
#mining
#teerzanden
#tarsands

#BigOil is just going to dump their toxic #tarsands tailings into the Mackenzie River Basin and #abpoli and #cdnpoli are going to let that happen. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/oilsands-cleanup-funding-alberta-first-nations-1.6726794

#WaterisLife #canpol #corporateCapture #Boreal #ecosystems #UNESCO #WoodBuffaloNationalPark #Arctic

Cenovus CEO Alex Pourbaix said that this is going to create a boom in the oil-producing provinces that is equivalent to what happened in the '80s and the '90s.

Hard to believe, I know, but Smith could be mistaken...

'Just transition' would create jobs, Cenovus CEO says | CTV News https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/oilsands-execs-say-a-just-transition-isn-t-a-worry-it-s-their-next-big-boom-1.6235956 #abpoli #tarsands #JustTransition #jobs #lies

Like so many Maritimers, she left the home that meant everything for her for #Alberta, where the #TarSands oil boom promised unmatched riches for anyone willing to take them.

Beaton's memoir describes the following four years, as she works her way into a series of oil industry jobs in isolated company towns where men outnumber women 50:1 and where whole communities marinate in a literally toxic brew of carcinogens, misogyny, economic desperation and environmental degradation.

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RT @therockyfiles@twitter.com

A month after a Keystone pipeline leak in a Kansas creek, sunken #tarsands #oil still a threat: “reducing the flow will allow the teams on-site to determine if the oil has sunk to the bottom of the creek.” ⁦@Celia_LJ@twitter.com⁩ ⁦@NebPublicMedia@twitter.com⁩ @sejorg@twitter.com https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/crews-are-diverting-a-kansas-creek-as-they-race-to-clean-an-oil-spill-and-prevent-further-pollution/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/therockyfiles/status/1611398427983716356

A month after a Keystone pipeline leak in a Kansas creek, sunken #tarsands #oil still a threat: “reducing the flow will allow the teams on-site to determine if the oil has sunk to the bottom of the creek.” @Celia_LJ @NebPublicMedia #environment #energy #oilpress

"Alberta kept oil lobbying records secret for 799 days. That’s bad for democracy — and against the law

Alberta Energy terminated the contract of the person preparing the release of records of its meetings with lobbyists from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. Then the ministry said it didn’t have enough staff to handle the request"

https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-energy-capp-lobbying-foi/

No mention of potential criminal investigation or charges, let alone potential punishment

#TarSands #SoCalledAlberta #Climate #Pollution #DemocracyOrLackThereof #Transparency #Corporatocracy