Welcome to Bizarro World: Canada and US Spending $billions to Create Climate...
Analysis by Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Aug 10, 2011 (IPS) Canada and the United States are now the centre of Bizarro World. This is where leaders promise to reduce carbon emissions but ensure a...
View ArticleKeystone XL: A Pipeline to Europe?
By Stephen Leahy * UXBRIDGE, Canada, Aug 23, 2011 (Tierramérica) The promoters of Keystone XL, a huge new oil pipeline from northern Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, claim that it will reduce U.S....
View ArticleCan Obama Take First Step to Break Addiction to Oil? (And Win First Battle...
‘…unless river of money from Big Oil is diverted there is no way to deal with climate change’ Analysis by Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Aug 31, 2011 (IPS) The United States’ biggest environmental...
View ArticleU.S. Awash in Oil and Lies, Report Charges | More Oil Development Risks...
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 2, 2011 (IPS) With four times as many oil rigs pumping domestic oil today than eight years ago and declining domestic demand, the United States is awash in oil....
View ArticleCanada Spurns Climate Treaty in Favour of Tar Sands (and lies about its...
‘Oil companies are in the driver’s seat when it comes to Canadian federal energy policy’ By Stephen Leahy BONN, Jun 13, 2011 IPS Canada was roundly criticised by other nations at a major U.N. climate...
View ArticleJail Before Climate-Wrecking Tar Sands, Canadians Say
By Stephen Leahy OTTAWA, Sep 27, 2011 (IPS) More than 200 Canadians engaged in civil disobedience, with 117 arrested in Canada’s quiet capital city on Monday. The reason? To protest the Stephen Harper...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline All About Exporting Oil Overseas – Report
The United States is awash in oil with four times as many oil rigs pumping domestic oil today than eight years ago and declining demand Canada needs overseas markets for its dirty oil [Excerpts from...
View ArticleAmerica Bears Risks of Keystone XL – Canada Gets Dirty Oil Profits
Canada’s Alberta Tar Sands Mining Pits “The only way Keystone XL could be considered in the national interest is if you equate that with profits for the oil industry” [Re-post from my Sept 2011 article...
View ArticleUS Climate Rally Draws “Line in the Sand” on Keystone Pipeline
The tar sands in Alberta, Canada. Credit: howlmonteal/cc by 2.0 By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 16 2013 (IPS) The largest climate rally in U.S. history is expected Sunday in Washington DC with...
View ArticleCanada and US Spending Billions to Create Climate Chaos
Welcome to Bizarro World [This is a 2011 repost about Keystone XL and expansion of fossil fuel production while world's nations are supposed to be reducing climate-wrecking emissions of carbon. --...
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