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Duelling livestock metaphors at Energy Ministers meeting in Alberta

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | July 18, 2011

In an effort to take the bull by the horns, Greenpeace and nine other environmental groups, published a livestock-themed ad today in the Western edition of the Globe and Mail to coincide with the start of a meeting of federal and...

Do Energy Ministers (except Ontario) really think 6 degrees of global warming is a...

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | July 20, 2011

Alberta pulled a fast one on the other energy ministers at yesterday’s ( oil-industry sponsored ) Energy Ministers’ meeting in Kananaskis. They managed to get most of the other provinces to endorse a strategy that calls for more tar...

Canada's new politics: clean vs dirty energy

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | July 22, 2011 1 comment

The ghost of Bruce Carson , the scandal-plagued former member of the Prime Minister’s inner circle and subsequently political quarterback for the oil industry’s push for a national energy strategy dominated by the tar sands, was...

Big Oil paid $180,000 for the Energy Ministers meeting on the tarsands and all...

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | July 14, 2011

When Canada’s federal and provincial energy ministers sit down on Monday to talk about a national energy strategy, a big chunk of the tab will be picked up by Canada’s biggest oil companies .  Since we can’t match Exxon or...

Bruce Carson was the Godfather of Redford’s “National” Energy Strategy

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | July 27, 2012 1 comment

The two big items in today’s national news are intimately connected. In Halifax, Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s push for a “national” energy strategy that is really all about getting new tar sands pipelines is being rejected by BC...

An EPIC battle for Canada's energy future

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | February 7, 2011

While reading the glowing assessment of the tar sands as Canada’s future in this morning’s Globe and Mail, I couldn’t help feeling that large chunks of the big picture were missing. One of the key pieces in the behind-the-scenes...

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