The Mackenzie River has long attracted the interest of Exxon Mobil and its subsidiary Imperial Oil. In 1942, the oil company worked alongside the U.S. military’s 388th Engineer Battalion to provide a secure source of oil for the wartime effort. The battalion’s role was to construct a road and lay four inch pipes along the [...]
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Who wants to dam the Similkameen River in southern BC? Shanker’s Bend Hydropower Project is an 80 metre high, $260 million US water storage and hydroelectric project. The dam would be located eight km northwest of Oroville, WA. The dam would flood 10-15 miles into Canada, inundating Palmer Lake, the town of Nighthawk, and the [...]
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I read recently about plans by various Hydro companies to introduce so-called Smart Meters, supposedly to catch all those indoor pot growers who are taking all the electricity without paying for it. On the one hand it sounds like a good idea but so-called smart power grids are not secure. An article which appeared in [...]
This video from Mining.com shows an interview with Preston McEachern, adjunct professor at the University of Alberta and Sayta Das, Principal of Cambridge Strategies. Sayta Das is a former journalist and a really good PR guy who has written a book called “Green Oil”. Here’s an excerpt from his blog: Already, it is becoming clear [...]
In January 2007 when thousands of migratory seabirds were travelling through the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, 74,000 litres of synthetic drilling lubricant was spilled by one of Chevron’s oil platforms. No environmental assessment was ever done. Chevron did not perform any clean-up – referring to the lubricant as “mud”. The Hebron field is located 340 [...]
The Ocean Ranger was an offshore oil rig that sank off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982. 84 crew members perished and only 22 bodies were ever found. Mitsubishi Industries in Japan built this ‘unsinkable’ rig and handed it over to Mobil Exxon who ignored every single safety warning. Oil spills went unreported. When this [...]
In 1952, the following obituary appeared in the Nechako Chronicle: OBITUARY Passed away, on Wednesday, October 8, 1952, at 10:27 a.m., the ageless and mighty Nechako River. The passing, which brings great sorrow to residents of the Nechako Valley, was slow and agonizing to the tens of thousands of minnows, trout and the few salmon [...]
The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced that they are considering a cull of over 200,000 grey seals on Sable Island, a continental island near Nova Scotia. This is being done supposedly to help the recovery of fish stocks such as cod, haddock, pollock, silver hake and the flatfishes. How do they get these [...]
This is an excellent video from Al-Jazeera which shows how a reporter was harassed and followed as he tried to get some answers at the Alberta Tar sands.
Stopping the flow of oil from the Transocean rig, “Deepwater Horizon” is a difficult task when one considers that this is the deepest semisubmersible rig on record at 35,050 feet (9,189 metres). The Deepwater Horizon rig was drilling at the time of the accident and it is believed 13,000 gallons of oil and gas are [...]
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