DeSmogBlog: Unethical Oil and Its Friends
northerngateway.jpg This is a guest post by Ian, originally published on The Real Story. A year ago Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel announced a new foreign partner for its Northern Gateway Pipeline project....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Cozy Ties: Astroturf ‘Ethical Oil’ and Conservative Alliance to...
hamish marshall and stephen harper.jpg As the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project Joint Review Panel begins hearing over 4,000 comments submitted by community members, First Nations, governments, and...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Unaccountable Oil: Is Enbridge Already Polluting the Canadian...
Enbridge oil spill.jpg If the pipeline giant Enbridge Inc. is content to cower behind a 20-something blog manager rather than acknowledge its role in the recent attack on the patriotism of Canadian...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Friends with Benefits: The Harper Government, EthicalOil.org and...
suntv_news.gif Just over a week before the Northern Gateway Pipeline hearings began, EthicalOil.org and its allies launched a pre-emptive PR offensive on environmental and First Nations groups who...
View ArticlePushed to the Left and Loving It: American Magazine Calls Canada a Jingoistic...
Blogger Scott Tribe shared a link yesterday to an article that appeared in Slate magazine, which is owned by the Washington Post. Saudi Arabia. Nigeria. Venezuela. Canada? Is our neighbor to the north...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Jim Hoggan Op-Ed in Vancouver Sun: Who Gets A Say In Our Democracy?
Tanker disaster.jpg Jim Hoggan, DeSmogBlog co-founder and president, has an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun today discussing the "ethical oil" crowd's attacks on democracy in the Enbridge Northern Gateway...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Ethical Oil: The Puppet Rap
It's time for Friday funnies, and the top hit today is Ethical Oil: the Puppet Rap, which first popped up over at The Tyee. It's a foul-mouthed, satirical music video remix of Kathryn Marshall's...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Cry Wolf: An Unethical Oil Story
Picture 4.png Over the last several months, Alberta has killed more than 500 wolves using aerial sharpshooters and poisoned bait in order to conceal the impact of rapid industrial development on...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Unethicull Oil: What Alberta’s Wolf Cull Plan Tells Us About...
Picture 5.png DeSmog recently sent a team to the tar sands region of Alberta to investigate the proposed government plan to systematically kill off the province’s wild wolf population in a supposed...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: U.S. Republican Koch oil billionaires help fund the Fraser...
Vancouver Observer.png Authored by Jenny Uechi, originally published at Vancouver Observer. Re-posted with permisison. U.S. libertarian oil billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have poured at...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Tar Sands Oil Companies 71 Percent Foreign-Owned – Cue Ezra...
Foreign Control of Tar Sands.png ForestEthics released a game-changing research brief today documenting the massive foreign control of Alberta's tar sands oil industry. Publicly traded oil companies...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Time to Audit the Fraser Institute
Fraser-Institute.jpg On March 25, 2012, the Compliance Division of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) received a letter from Jensen Shawa Solomon Duguid Hawkes LLP (aka JSS Barristers). In 11 detailed...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Terror is in the Eye of the Beholder: Alberta’s Counterterrorism...
Picture 2.png In January, during the week before Canada’s federal hearing on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, the Harper government and Ethical Oil Institute launched an unprecedented attack on...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Ethical Oil charity complaint sparks Alberta corporate complaint
Commentator Ezra Levant lets go a broadside at Tides Canada on his Sun News Network program. Below: Researcher Tony Clark; Jamie Ellerton, executive director of Mr. Levant’s Ethical Oil Institute;...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Rats! Alberta has ’em … and not just the kind Ed Stelmach...
Norwegian rats have their eyes on Alberta! It’s time to root them out, and their pipeline hating, royalty demanding, revolutionary pals! And where’s the AHS Plague Plan? And why does Norwegian crude...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Pride flags over Alberta: for real, or a cynical commitment of...
A rainbow banner flies alongside the city, Alberta and Canadian flags at the city hall of St. Albert, Alberta, last weekend. Below: A really great pride banner spotted during a recent Pride Week in...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: What happens now that we know there really is a cancer cluster...
Greenpeace Canada info-graphic showing connections among the far-right Conservative Party of Canada activists behind the so-called Ethical Oil Institute. Below: Dr. James Talbot; Dr. John O’Connor;...
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