In Canada, a Push for Obama-style Green Stimulus
thetyee.ca 1/20/2009 — The Tyee: A new proposal for a sweeping green economic stimulus plan is landing with a loud thump on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's desk days before he unveils his federal budget. Why a loud thump? The proposal for a Green Economy Action Fund is ...

Voodoo economists, Part 2: Robert Mendelsohn says global warming is “a good thing for Canada.”
climateprogress.org 1/13/2009 — I asserted in Part 1 that economists don’t understand climate science. Exhibit 1 would be Robert Mendelsohn, an economics professor at Yale University, whose “research” has prompted headlines in our neighbor up north like “ A ...

Canada's Oil Sands - Part 2
theoildrum.com 9/1/2009 — This is a follow-up to Part 1 , which tells about my recent trip to Canada's oil sands, on a trip sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute (API). In Part 2 of this post, I provide some additional thoughts to help the reader come to his / her ...

Canada: Obama On Tar Sands - Or Should I Say Oil Sands
huffingtonpost.com 2/23/2009 — Huffington Post: Yesterday President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper talked about Canadian tar sands. They spoke of them euphemistically, calling them "oil sands." Now, politicians choose words wisely - perhaps they employed the ...

Happy Canada Day!
poppytalk.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — All things red and white today to celebrate Canada's birthday! We tweeted asking if anyone was having a Canada Day Sale today. And these and a few more answered. We chose to pick some red and white items and will also list some other's not so red or white (that we could find in a pinch). ...

Canada: Oil Economy Driving Growth of Controversial Tar Sands
ipsnews.net 6/2/2009 — Inter Press Service: A report from one of the world's top energy consultancies says oil production in Canada's tar sands could see a five-fold increase by 2035. "The oil sands have moved from the fringe to the center of energy supply," notes ...

Canada’s Carbon Bank
theenergycollective.com 3/30/2009 — It rarely receives the same attention as the Amazon rain forest, one is being devastated by illegal Deforestation (credit: energyportal.eu) logging and development but the other, Canada’s Boreal forests also represents a key battleground against Climate Change. Set in the in the ...

SDTC Media Releases
sdtc.ca 3/9/2009 — Government of Canada Investing in Green, Clean Economy Sustainable Development Technology Canada funds 16 new projects Mississauga, March 6, 2009 The Canadian economy became cleaner today as 16 new projects that develop and demonstrate emerging clean ...

Canada's vast oil cache hides dirty environmental secret
poughkeepsiejournal.com 12/29/2008 — Poughkeepsie Journal: From here in the far north of Canada through a web of transcontinental pipelines down to a network of refineries ringing the Chicago area, a new supply of precious oil has begun flowing into the gas tanks of more Americans, ...

Canada: 'We need to pay farmers ... to protect nature'
thestar.com 10/22/2009 — Toronto Star: Most farmers look at a crop field and see profit, or hope to. When farmer Bryan Gilvesy looks over his 44 acres of native tall-grass prairie in Norfolk County, Ont., on Lake Erie, he sees truly green fields. By planting this ancient ...

Chevron's Inhumane Energy Exposed to Light of Day but Oil Giant Keeps on Spinning — AlterNet.org: Environment 6/5/2009
Chevron's wrought destruction in the U.S., Angola, Burma, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, Ecuador, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and the Philippines.

Hudson Plane: Out-Of-Town Geese Did It — Scientific American - Environment 6/8/2009
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] Back on January 15th, US Airways Flight 1549 made that amazing water landing in the Hudson after both engines were taken out by Canada geese, which can weigh eight pounds each. Now scientists ...