...On Wednesday, (click here) John Kerry used his first speech as the new U.S. secretary of state to say much the same thing: “We need to commit ourselves to doing the smart thing and the right thing and to truly take on this challenge, because if we don’t rise to meet it, then rising temperatures and rising sea levels will surely lead to rising costs down the road.”...
Aug 17, 2005 02:00 AM
Aug 17, 2005 02:00 AM
by Barrie McKenna
Mr. Cheney (click here) would be the highest-ranking member of the Bush administration to make a pilgrimage to the oil sands -- home to the largest reserves of crude outside Saudi Arabia. US Treasury Secretary John Snow was there in early July at the invitation of Canadian Finance Minister Ralph Goodale, and returned apparently impressed by the scope of existing production and its potential for the future. Officials are also trying to convince US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to come have a look.The visits mark the culmination of a long and aggressive campaign by Ottawa and Alberta to convince Americans that the oil sands are no longer a costly pipe dream. They're real and they represent one of the emerging sources of crude for a world anxiously wondering where they'll get the increasingly expensive commodity....
List of Tar Sands Companies (click here)
Athabasca Oil Sands Corp
Baytex Energy Trust
Bonavista Energy Trust
BP plc
Bronco Energy Ltd
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd
Canadian Oil Sands Trust
CanWest Petroleum Corp
Cenovus Energy Inc
Chevron Corp
China National Petroleum Corp
Connacher Oil & Gas Ltd
ConocoPhillips
Devon Energy Corp
Enbridge Inc
EnCana Corp
Enerplus Resources Fund
Exxon Mobil Corp
Harvest Energy Trust
Husky Energy Inc
Imperial Oil Ltd
Inter Pipeline Fund
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP
Koch Resources LLC
Korea National Oil Corp
Marathon Oil Corp
MEG Energy Corp
Mocal Energy Ltd
Murphy Oil Corp
Nexen Inc
Nippon Oil Corp
Occidental Petroleum Corp
Oilsands Quest Inc
OPTI Canada Inc
Paramount Resources Ltd
Pembina Pipeline Income Fund
Pengrowth Energy Trust
Penn West Energy Trust
Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd
Petro-Canada
Royal Dutch Shell plc
Sinopec Group
StatoilHydro ASA
Suncor Energy Inc
Syncrude Canada Ltd
Total SA
TransCanada CorpUTS Energy Cor
One of the 32 solar-thermal panels (click here) that captured energy on the roof of the White House more than 30 years ago landed this week at a science museum in China....
By Andrew Reeves
Oct 20, 2011
Surrey - Roughly 200 protesters arrived in Surrey, B.C. (click here) this morning, many from Occupy Vancouver, to protest the arrival of former U.S. president George W. Bush to speak at the city's economic summit.
Protesters arrived in Surrey, British Columbia this morning in advance of the planned speech by former U.S. president George W. Bush. Despite calls from such groups as Amnesty International that Canada arrest the former president for war crimes, Bush's visit to the Sheraton Guildford hotel for the Surrey Economic Summit appears to have gone smoothly....
