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sustainablog.org - 1/13/2009

Book Review: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

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Northern Alberta’s vast stores of bitumen–a.k.a. “tar sands” or “oil sands” or “dirty oil”–may well be one of the worst environmental tragedies you never heard of. At least that is what Andrew Nikiforuk, a prize-winning Canadian journalist, wants you to believe. In his recent ...

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theglobeandmail.com - 1/17/2009

The true costs of the tar sands project

— theglobeandmail.com — Globe and Mail: TAR SANDS Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent By Andrew Nikiforuk GreyStone... Books, 214 pages, $20 *** Canada has no cohesive energy policy. Nor does it have a cohesive environmental policy. Put the two together, and you get the tar ... (more) The true costs of the tar sands project

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Canada to study economic impact of climate change
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — It's hard to know whether to celebrate or to weep. CanWest News Services reporter Mike de Souza has learned that the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper is calling for a lightning fast (eight-week), bargain basement ($40,000) report on the potential economic impacts of climate change in Canada. We certainly laud the Prime Minister's sudden interest, but if this is anything more than a public relations exercise designed to lobby the anti-science cohort in his own caucus, it is an affront - so terribly inadequate to the task as to only further humiliate Canada on the international stage. <!--break-->Stephen Harper, for the record, is the politician who just four years ago was ...