Comments on: Speak Up Now! Help Stop Big Oil’s Tar Sands Agenda for New England

By: Strange Wetlands: Tar Sands, Pipeline Proposals & Wetlands | The Compleat Wetlander

Thu, 10 May 2012 20:17:15 +0000

[...] some press about a New England proposal for an Enbridge pipeline project. For example, I read a NWF blog post last month and came across a number of useful background documents on state, regional and national [...]

By: Saunders

Saunders — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:40:00 +0000

And no I don’t want the pipeline, not for the same reasons though. But because it would be shipping Canadian jobs south of the border.

By: Saunders

Saunders — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:37:00 +0000

It’s all about donations and money

By: Saunders

Saunders — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:36:00 +0000

I admit all is not good with oil production, but some of you people make me sick. You protest oil sands, but not what the big oil has done in
Places like Nigeria and other third world nations, where drinking water is ruined and there are no environmental assessments. Go protest there and other places like that. Oh yeah you won’t because those countries would put you in prison or kill the protesters. Your no better than Greenpeace protesting the seal hunt using video from the seventies showing white coat seals being slaughtered “which is illigeal

By: TAR SANDS, Avaaz petition, new documentaries. | No place like home.

TAR SANDS, Avaaz petition, new documentaries. | No place like home. — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:42:15 +0000

[...] Details have been released of a proposal to export tar sands oil from the east coast of America. Strong opposition met the proposed Keystone XL pipeline through the U.S. although a “section” of the pipeline has ominously been approved by Obama. The western route through the pristine Great Bear National Park on Canada’s west coast must be seen as the least possible option. The 3rd option is a doozy. Why build a pipeline when you have a leaky old one there already ? Opposition is beginning to mount within Canada and the U.S. as the pernicious nature of tar sands oil and its destructive planetary potential – emissions from Tar Sands oil are 20% greater than “conventional” oil emissions due to the highly energy intensive processing of tar sands. http://blog.nwf.org/2012/04/speak-up-now-help-stop-big-oils-tar-sands-agenda-for-new-england/ [...]