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May 12, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- BP, canada, conocophillips, gulfspill, investor, oilsands, shareholder, tarsands
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that an independent committee of the Board prepare a report (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on the environmental damage that would result from the company’s expanding oil sands operations in the Canadian boreal forest. The...
May 10, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- dirtyfuels, keystonexl, oilsands, pipeline, tarsands
Several new reports came out today all with a common message: tar sands is not the right choice for our energy future. These reports are especially timely since the United States is considering a proposal to build yet another...
May 7, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- alberta, biogems, canada, dirtyfuels, gulfspill, ogallala, oilsands, tarsands
The BP deep oil rig accident in the Gulf Coast is a tragic example of the very high dangers and costs of going after fuels that in the past we considered too difficult, dangerous or expensive to access. I have...
May 4, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- canada, climate, globalwarming, greenjobs, gulfspill, oilsands, tarsands
Today, I’ll be speaking at the Green Jobs, Good Jobs conference in DC. When we first envisioned the topic for the U.S.-Canada climate policy panel, we did not realize that we would be in the midst of a political impasse...
May 3, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
- Tags:
- biogems, birds, BP, gulfspill, louisiana, oil
We all watched with horror as the oil rig accident took the lives of eleven workers of the Deepwater Horizon rig and injured more. The still uncapped oil spill is growing and heading on a path of devastation...
April 20, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- canada, europe, fuels, oilsands, tarsands
Today a letter went from 17 Members of the European Parliament to the European Commission in protest of tar sands oil. This is the second letter protesting tar sands oil coming from Parliamentarians in the past half year and it...
April 14, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- alberta, canada, CEC, oilsands, tailingsponds, tarsands
It is depressing that a topic as vast as 50 square miles of tar sands oil tailings waste lagoons from strip-mining the Boreal forest should be even murkier than the toxic waters stored in them. In order to clear the...
April 9, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- canada, EIS, keystonexl, oilsands, pipeline, state, tarsands
Late this afternoon, the State Department made available on its webpage its draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The DEIS is oddly dated one week from now and it seems as though no...
March 8, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- audubon, barryyeoman, biogems, birds, canada, oilsands, tarsands
Last summer, Audubon Magazine reporter Barry Yeoman travelled north to the open pit mines in Alberta, Canada where a dense form of oil is dug from the earth like coal. He saw the devastation caused by these tar sands mines...
March 2, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biogems, canada, dirtyfuels, ducks, oilsands, tailingsponds, tarsands
Yesterday in Canada, one of the tar sands oil giants went to court to defend itself. The charge: killing 1,600 ducks. The oil company: the aptly named Syncrude a joint venture whose owners include ConcoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Murphy Oil....
March 1, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- canada, climate, dirtyfuels, oilsands, tarsands
Many people think of Canada as large tracts of pristine forests and a strong environmental ethic. Indeed, the Canadian people and provincial governments such as Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia are working hard to fight climate change. Yet, the...
February 19, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- canada, climate, dirtyfuels, energy, oilsands, premiers, tarsands
By Rick Smith, Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada Tomorrow, in Washington, DC, Canada’s Premiers will meet with U.S. Governors to talk, in part, about energy and the environment. The meeting neatly captures the fact that the Harper government has given...
February 18, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- canada, cleanenergy, dirtyfuels, oilsands, tarsands
Over the next few days, Canadian provincial leaders are visiting Washington, D.C. for the National Governors Association conference – finding common ground with their neighbors to the south that they are not finding with Canadian tar sands provinces and the...
February 17, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- dirtyfuels, keystonexl, oilsands, pipeline, tarsands, transcanada
With Elizabeth Shope, NRDC advocate One of Canada’s largest pipeline companies, TransCanada, is proposing to build a 1,800-mile-long pipeline that would cut through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas (map). This high-pressure pipeline, the Keystone XL, would carry the...
February 11, 2010
Posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
- Tags:
- biogems, birds, oilsands, tarsands, welovebirds
Bird watching is the number one hobby in America. And when we flock together, bird-lovers have a strong voice in protecting birds and bird habitat. That is why NRDC has joined together with Cornell Lab of Ornithology to create a...