[All] GREN News Jan 06

[Louisette Lanteigne]

BREAKING NEWS 
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), didn't mince words: "North American energy resources development at risk."

http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/csis-big-oil-never-say-never-again-pipelines


MUST SEE:
Friday January 10th, CBC's Fifth Estate will reveal the information that Canadian Scientists are not allowed to talk about.  Details here: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-silence-of-the-labs

Local/Provincial News

December 31st around 2pm Ontario stopped producing coal energy. http://wind-blog.com/?p=517


MNR propose an amendment to the Niagara Escarpment Plan on the Environmental Registry (Caledon area changes)
http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTIwOTc2&statusId=MTgxMDk0&language=en

Enbridge Line 9: Details of Treaties & policies ALREADY violated by existing oil pipeline

http://t.co/Ba4G18Q0ci


Alberta Bitumen Heading to Great Lakes 
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Albertan-Bitumen-Heading-for-the-Great-Lakes.html


Federal News

The Lac Megantic Cover-up
http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/regulatory/controversy-surrounds-lac-megantic-crude-oil-test-data.html


Feds Dumping and Torching Environmental Archives 
http://boingboing.net/2014/01/04/canadian-libraricide-tories-t.html


Jeff Rubin, author and former CIBC World Markets chief economist says Bitumen on rails would mean disasters. Mentions plans to move tarsands on rails from 200,000 barrels per day to 900,000 and how oilsands producers get $58/barrel & new production costs $70-100/barrel. Details here at: 
http://www2.macleans.ca/2014/01/04/jeff-rubin-on-the-oil-sands


RBC forcasts that Pipelines will underperform
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Pipelines+will+continue+underperform+forecasts/9291447/story.html


Deloitte: Futures Show Long-Term Oil Price Declining and Gas Price Remaining Flat

http://www.4-traders.com/news/Deloitte-Futures-Show-Long-Term-Oil-Price-Declining-and-Gas-Price-Remaining-Flat--17748508/


Big oil making massive expense claims in Alaska hurting tax revenues, putting Alaska in debt.

https://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20131230/are-oil-companies-claiming-higher-expenses-lower-their-tax-bill-alaska


International

Climate Change predictions worsen: 4 degree change by 2100.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/31/climate-change-worse_n_4523828.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

MAP: The Stresses of Water Scarcity
http://nextcity.org/watermark/entry/map-the-stresses-of-water-scarcity?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=bufferf525e&utm_medium=twitter



Petitions and Groups to help support

Concerned Professional Engineers tried to raise funds for a video to raise awareness on the risks of Northern Gateway. The campaign ended but they haven't reached their target yet. Info on the group is on You Tube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyqWgipfefI
They are looking for donations still. If folks are interested they can give using Paypal here: 
http://www.concernedengineers.org/
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