Comments on: Breaking: State Department Issues Permit for Alberta Tar Sands Pipeline http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/08/20/breaking-state-department-issues-permit-for-alberta-tar-sands-pipeline/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:27:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tar Sands Fighters to U.S. News Media: WAKE UP! « It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/08/20/breaking-state-department-issues-permit-for-alberta-tar-sands-pipeline/#comment-81140 Tar Sands Fighters to U.S. News Media: WAKE UP! « It’s Getting Hot In Here Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:57:49 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=12567#comment-81140 [...] of pumping 450,000 barrels per day of Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in the Midwest, was recently approved by the Obama administration. And Chevron has been fighting against community activists for years to be able [...] [...] of pumping 450,000 barrels per day of Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in the Midwest, was recently approved by the Obama administration. And Chevron has been fighting against community activists for years to be able [...]

]]> By: The Understory » Tar Sands Fighters to U.S. News Media: WAKE UP http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/08/20/breaking-state-department-issues-permit-for-alberta-tar-sands-pipeline/#comment-81089 The Understory » Tar Sands Fighters to U.S. News Media: WAKE UP Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:25:14 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=12567#comment-81089 [...] This is especially ridiculous, given that U.S. corporations are far more involved in the tar sands than their British (or Norwegian) counterparts. Chevron and ExxonMobil have invested a total of over $10 billion in Alberta tar sands projects – Chevron is the majority owner of the 85,000-acre Ells River tar sands project, while Exxon’s subsidiary, Imperial Oil, owns 465,000 acres of “quality oil sands leases.” Citigroup is the biggest tar sands investor outside Canada, with $5.9 billion invested in Canadian tar sands companies since 2007 alone. And oil companies across the U.S. are building pipelines and retooling refineries to be able to process oil from Canada’s tar sands; a new pipeline from Alberta to Wisconsin, capable of pumping 450,000 barrels per day of Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in the Midwest, was recently approved by the Obama administration. [...] [...] This is especially ridiculous, given that U.S. corporations are far more involved in the tar sands than their British (or Norwegian) counterparts. Chevron and ExxonMobil have invested a total of over $10 billion in Alberta tar sands projects – Chevron is the majority owner of the 85,000-acre Ells River tar sands project, while Exxon’s subsidiary, Imperial Oil, owns 465,000 acres of “quality oil sands leases.” Citigroup is the biggest tar sands investor outside Canada, with $5.9 billion invested in Canadian tar sands companies since 2007 alone. And oil companies across the U.S. are building pipelines and retooling refineries to be able to process oil from Canada’s tar sands; a new pipeline from Alberta to Wisconsin, capable of pumping 450,000 barrels per day of Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in the Midwest, was recently approved by the Obama administration. [...]

]]> By: Jon Erik Kingstad http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/08/20/breaking-state-department-issues-permit-for-alberta-tar-sands-pipeline/#comment-80601 Jon Erik Kingstad Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:53:04 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=12567#comment-80601 As a person who has been directly involved in filing comments and reviewing the State Department Final EIS, I can say that any report the State Department took into account "greenhouse gas emissions" is substantially misleading if not a flat out lie. The State Department carefully and deliberately excluded the environmental impacts of Alberta tar sands mining in Alberta as well as the likely environmental effects of greenhouse gas emissions by the refineries in the US that will process the stuff. It has been well documented that the Alberta tar sands mining is the single factor in Canada abrogating its commitment to the Kyoto anti-global warming treaty. Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration issued this permit in spite of this fact. Alberta is already veering toward environmental Armageddon. It will run out of the water and natural gas needed to mine Alberta tar sands long before the tar sands are close to depleted. The Athabasca river will be contaminated if not dried out by the diversion of water. Will the US sanction diversion of the Great Lakes to Alberta slake its greedy and insatiable thirst for fossil fuels? Here you have your precedent. As a person who has been directly involved in filing comments and reviewing the State Department Final EIS, I can say that any report the State Department took into account “greenhouse gas emissions” is substantially misleading if not a flat out lie. The State Department carefully and deliberately excluded the environmental impacts of Alberta tar sands mining in Alberta as well as the likely environmental effects of greenhouse gas emissions by the refineries in the US that will process the stuff. It has been well documented that the Alberta tar sands mining is the single factor in Canada abrogating its commitment to the Kyoto anti-global warming treaty. Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration issued this permit in spite of this fact. Alberta is already veering toward environmental Armageddon. It will run out of the water and natural gas needed to mine Alberta tar sands long before the tar sands are close to depleted. The Athabasca river will be contaminated if not dried out by the diversion of water. Will the US sanction diversion of the Great Lakes to Alberta slake its greedy and insatiable thirst for fossil fuels? Here you have your precedent.

]]> By: Nick Magel http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/08/20/breaking-state-department-issues-permit-for-alberta-tar-sands-pipeline/#comment-80594 Nick Magel Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:24:19 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=12567#comment-80594 Thanks for the update Morgan. This is scary stuff, you can't find a much dirtier source of energy than this nasty fuel. What's even scarier is what kind of precedent a decision like this makes. Take a look at the maps (linked below) and see how this decision may open the flood gates to a full on tar sands wave in North America if we don't stop it NOW. http://oilsandstruth.org/maps/updated http://oilsandstruth.org/maps-tar-sands-development thanks to oilsandstruth.org for the great visuals. Thanks for the update Morgan. This is scary stuff, you can’t find a much dirtier source of energy than this nasty fuel. What’s even scarier is what kind of precedent a decision like this makes.

Take a look at the maps (linked below) and see how this decision may open the flood gates to a full on tar sands wave in North America if we don’t stop it NOW.

http://oilsandstruth.org/maps/updated

http://oilsandstruth.org/maps-tar-sands-development

thanks to oilsandstruth.org for the great visuals.

]]> By: rubylevine http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/08/20/breaking-state-department-issues-permit-for-alberta-tar-sands-pipeline/#comment-80593 rubylevine Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:38:52 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=12567#comment-80593 Thanks for sharing this letter template -- I adapted it and sent the email. Thanks for sharing this letter template — I adapted it and sent the email.

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