Josh Wingrove, Globe and Mail, August 30, 2010

Finding refutes long-standing claims that water quality hasn’t been affected by oil sands development

By Andrew Nikiforuk, TheTyee.ca, August 13, 2010

A short course in Dutch Disease, deindustrialization and the Bitumen Curse.

Every week Canada's least favorite Emir, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, earnestly lectures Canadians that the mighty tar sands are a boon to the national economy because "Alberta's engine drives Canada."

Dave Coles, Toronto Star, August 8, 2010

An unlikely coalition of Calgary oil workers, Nebraska farmers, Michigan mothers, Greenpeace shock troops and a powerful U.S. congressman have a chance to achieve what many thought impossible — bring a Canada-U.S. oil pipeline project to a screeching halt.

by Kari Lydersen, onearth.org, NRDC, August 6, 2010

Extensive damage to Michigan waterways shows the risk of transporting tar sands oil

Up to a million gallons of oil spilled from a ruptured pipeline into the waterways of southwestern Michigan last week in what the federal government is calling the most destructive oil spill in Midwestern history.

By Kelly Cryderman and Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald, August 3, 2010

CALGARY - Dozens of police and firefighters were on the scene at the Calgary Tower Tuesday morning, where Greenpeace activists in full climbing gear unfurled a huge banner protesting what they say is a "cozy" relationship between big oil and the federal and provincial governments.

By Mike De Souza, Vancouver Sun, July 7, 2010

Federal politicians from the government and opposition benches have mysteriously cancelled an 18-month investigation into oilsands pollution in water and opted to destroy draft copies of their report, Canwest News Service has learned.

By Bernard Simon, Financial Times, UK, July 29, 2010

Canada's oil sands industry was trying to defuse a fresh public relations headache on Thursday after a ruptured pipeline spilled about 4m litres of Alberta crude into waterways in southern Michigan.

Chris Genovali, Huffington Post, July 20, 2010

I'm a vampire, babe,
suckin' blood
from the earth
I'm a vampire, baby,
suckin' blood
from the earth.
Well, I'm a vampire, babe,
sell you
twenty barrels worth.

By Antonia Zerbisias, The Star, July 16, 2010

A report to Parliament on the Alberta Oil sands is, literally, being shredded

Denial, they say, is not just a river in Egypt.

According to environmentalists, it’s also the Athabasca in Alberta.

by David Beers, TheTyee.ca, July 15, 2010

Nikiforuk: 'Startling ideas and stories.'

An interview with the expert tar sands journalist who will be writing here about 'Energy and Equity.'

Andrew Nikiforuk says we have only ourselves to blame for bird flu, mad cow disease and a host of other diseases.

by Andrew Nikiforuk, the Tyee.ca, July 15, 2010

Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here's what they knew.

Nathan VanderKlippe, Globe and Mail Update, Jul. 12, 2010

Failure at one of the company’s wellheads sent a plume of high-temperature steam into the air for nearly 36 hours last weekend

By Sarah O’Donnell, Edmonton Journal, July 3, 2010

Province buys half-page ad after premier's letter rejected

EDMONTON — Alberta's premier delivered his pro-oilsands message to a Washington Post audience Friday morning through a $55,800 Cdn half-page ad in the paper, instead of an opinion piece as originally intended.

By Aileen McCabe, Canwest News Asia Correspondent, Calgary Herald, May 18, 2010

Premier says China clearly on radar for Canada's energy sector

BEIJING — When Premier Ed Stelmach said in Shanghai this week, "our doors are open," it was a clear invitation for more Chinese investment in Alberta's oilsands.

By Dan Healing and Shaun Polczer, Calgary Herald, May 19, 2010

CALGARY - The Alberta government has chosen Calgary-based North West Upgrading Inc. to refine the heavy, sticky oilsands product it will receive in place of cash through its bitumen-royalty-in-kind initiative.

By Deborah Yedlin, Calgary Herald, May 14, 2010

CALGARY - In the days following the initial public offering of Athabasca Oil Sands, the chatter at the many fundraising events around town centred on which company would be next to do a deal with a Chinese entity — whether an operating oil and gas concern or with a sovereign wealth fund. The consensus view was when, not if.

JASON FEKETE, Calgary Herald, May 13, 2010

CALGARY — China is bolstering its stake in Alberta's oilsands, just as Premier Ed Stelmach jets to Asia to improve relations with the communist country that's increasingly eyeing the province's bitumen bounty and the shifting geopolitics of energy.

Arthur Caldicott, May 3, 2010

Pipeline capacity out of the tar sands is right on track to meet bitumen production forecasts - and it's virtually all into the continental US.

By Jason Fekete And Lisa Schmidt, Calgary Herald, April 23, 2010

Avatar director Cameron urged to visit sites

James Hoggan, The Huffington Post, April 22, 2010

The recently launched Astroturf platform AlbertaIsEnergy.ca is yet another faulty step by the captains of the Alberta oil and gas industry – people more interested in ill-advised public relations campaigns than in coming to grips with the challenges facing their industry.

Andrew Willis, Globe and Mail, April 8, 2010

Athabasca Oil Sands debut on public markets Thursday was a disaster, with the much-hyped energy company IPO selling off sharply in its first day of trading.

Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail, Apr. 14, 2010

Ottawa says it will use its regulatory power to stop Chinese state-controlled Sinopec from exporting raw oil sands bitumen and refining it abroad to take advantage of looser climate-change rules.

Globe and Mail, April 14, 2010

Environmental groups launched a complaint against Canada under the North American free-trade agreement on Wednesday, saying the country has failed to enforce anti-pollution rules governing its vast oil sands.

By Dan Healing, Calgary Herald, March 20, 2010

Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. will go public in one of the highest-priced initial public offering in oilsands history, according to pricing released after markets closed Tuesday.