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Manitoba's Green-Energy Projects are Sucking Wind
Winnipeg Free Press - By: Mary Agnes Welch - 14/11/2009 High hopes for wind die down... .
Did Big Oil Win the War in Iraq?
By Antonia Juhasz , AlterNet . Posted November 14, 2009. As U.S. and British oil companies sign contracts with the Iraqi government, is it time to declare Big Oil...
Feds' Biofuel Fund Backs Sask. Ethanol Maker
MB Co-Operator - N0.11'09 A federal biofuels incentive fund has followed through on... (This will be the largest "wheat-ethanol" plant in North America.) Please also read "Bursting the Ethanol Bubble." Wheatfield photo by l.p.
First Turbine Lowered Into Bay of Fundy
NOVA.SCOTIA (CBC) - Nov. 12'09 A turbine that will test the potential of tidal power was installed...
The US Blows Up its Clean Energy Future
By Nell Greenberg, AlterNet. Posted November 5, 2009. Coal River Mountain can be a wind farm that provides 85,000 households with electricity, creates 700 long-term green jobs but inside it is being... Mountaintop Removal site (Wikipedia)
US Pressure Distorts Key Oil Figures - Whistleblower
Published on Tu. No. 10, 2009 by The Guardian/UK - by Terry Macalister The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the...
The Tar Sands - the Dirty New Gold Rush That is Blackening Canada’s Name
November 4, 2009 - Ben Webster - TimesOnline A giant mechanical digger gouges out a chunk of topsoil... Editor's note: Aerial photos of the tar sands like this one are now being touted as works of art! Our callousness toward the natural world is surely now complete. l.p.
Biofuel Displacing Food Crops May Have Bigger Carbon Impact Than Thought
ScienceDaily (Oc 25'09) A report has found that carbon loss stemming from the displacement of food crops and pastures for biofuels crops may be twice as much as.. . Canola field. l.p. photo
Taxpayers "Shell" Out $865,000,000 for Carbon Capture Project
Pembina Institute - Posted: 09 Oct 2009 Amy Taylor, Director of Alberta Energy Solutions with the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the announcement that the governments of Alberta and Canada will provide..... ====== Editor's note: Whatever became of the "polluter pay" principle? Oh, I forgot, Stephen has none! (Principles, that is.)
Era of Cheap, Easy Oil is Over, Warns Study
By Louise Gray , Environment Correspondent - the Telegraph - UK Published:08 Oct 2009 The world could start to run out of oil in the next ten years, sparking soaring ...
Suncor Ethanol Plant Expansion to Resume
Manitoba Co-Operator - Staff - 10/5/2009 Shelved expansion plans to double capacity of Suncor Energy's corn ethanol facility south of Sarnia, Ont. are back on... ==== ....and the beat goes on.... l.p. (Please also read article directly below.)
E85 Ethanol no Cure for Gas Emissions: Report
Winnipeg Free Press - By: David Akin - 3/10/2009 Feds warned of promoting its use... Please also read "Bursting the Ethanol Bubble" here.
Feds' Biofuel Fund Backs Husky, Methes Plants
MB Co-Operator - 9/29/2009 A federal biofuels incentive fund has followed through on its contribution agreements to support one of the Prairies' major ethanol... Wheatfield. l.p. photo ====== Editor's note: Once again, you and I are shelling out our taxpayer dollars for the privilege of exacerbating world hunger, diverting ever-more food from human beings into machines! Way to go, Stephen! l.p.
Biofuel Production Could Undercut Efforts To Shrink Gulf 'Dead Zone'
ScienceDaily (Se.18 - '09) --- Pennsylvania scientists report that boosting production of crops used to make biofuels could make a difficult....
Biodiesel a Small But Growing Canola Sector Player
Phil Franz-Warkentin - Manitoba Co-Operator - 9/23/2009 (Resource News International) -- Biodiesel, long touted as a potential market for Canadian canola, remains only a small factor in the canola industry... Photo by l.p. Editor's note - One by one, the justifications for these kinds of "agri-fuels" are stripped away. This story shows one of the reasons often qoted by proponents - that farmers will benefit financially - is more like a fleeting illusion.
Oil Majors Propping up Myanmar Regime: Rights Group
Published on Thursday, Se. 10, 2009 by Agence France Presse BANGKOK - Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars in Singaporean banks, a rights group said Thursday.
Rot-Gut Liquor
Posted on 7 Apr 2009 - by Tom Philpott - Grist Greg Southam, Canwest News Service Amid a sea of troubles, ethanol now has an antibiotics problem...
Cdn. Taxpayers Back SK. Ethanol Plant
Staff- MB Co-Operator - 9/1/2009 A Manitoba ethanol plant. l.p. photo A federal biofuels incentive fund has followed through on its contribution agreement to support a Saskatchewan plant producing wheat- and corn-based ethanol. ======== Ed's. Note: The hemorrhage of millions of our taxpayer dollars continues to flow into this failed technology which only makes world hunger worse. l.p. Please also read "Bursting the Ethanol Bubble" here.
U.S. State Department OKs Pipeline From Canada's Oil Sands
WASHINGTON, DC, August 21, 2009 (Environment News Service) The U.S. State Department has issued a permit for a multibillion-dollar pipeline to carry crude oil from Canadian oil sands to refineries south of the border, triggering a court challenge... ===== (AFP/Getty image) Editor's note...Surely this can only underline the urgency with which the U.S. should implement Barak Obama's commitment to CLEAN energy! l.p.