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Song of the Watermelon: Andrew Weaver on the Tar Sands

Last week, world-renowned University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver, lead author of several IPCC reports, shocked friends and enemies alike by publishing an article in Nature Climate...

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Canadian Progressive: Cry Wolf: A Canadian Unethical Oil Story

Cry Wolf: An Unethical Oil Story (via Desmogblog) Over the last several years, Alberta has killed more than 500 wolves using aerial sharpshooters and poisoned bait in order to conceal the impact of...

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The Disaffected Lib: Could "America’s Quiet Environmental Revolution" Sound...

A PostMedia article discusses what it calls America’s “quiet environmental revolution,” a nationwide, broadbased movement away from fossil fuels toward non-carbon alternatives. Even the most unlikely...

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The Disaffected Lib: Geriatric Pipelines?

An analysis of the pipeline failure that spilled 200,000 gallons of Athabasca dilbit in Mayflower, Arizona concluded there was a manufacturing fault in the pipe. Here’s the thing.  The pipe that...

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The Disaffected Lib: If This is Fact, We Need to Rethink Our Bitumen Policy,...

Word is coming out of the discovery of a truly massive, shale oil field in Australia that’s expected to produce from 233 upwards to 400-billion barrels of crude oil.   That’s crude oil, not bitumen....

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daveberta.ca - Alberta politics: NEP what? Trudeau Liberals dominate Oil...

TweetPreliminary results from last week’s Fort McMurray-Athabasca by-election show that federal Liberal candidate Kyle Harrietha dominated in the industrial capital of Canada’s oil economy. According...

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The Disaffected Lib: Let’s Not Get Too Gushy About Rob Ford

I get it, he’s got cancer.  With the sludge that guy has pushed down his gullet and snorted up his nose, quelle surprise! As our friend, The Salamander, pointed out, where’s our concern for other...

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Alberta Politics: Alberta Advanced Education Ministry now maintaining close...

PHOTOS: A recent newspaper ad seeking a new board chair for Athabasca University. Below: Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt at the Legislature on Budget Day; Athabasca MLA Colin Piquette; and...

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