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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAlarm sounded as TransCanada set to drill in Bay of Fundy O'Keefe, Derrick Article 2015 An open letter was released by 20 groups in New Brunswick opposed to TransCanada's plans to begin drilling in the Bay of Fundy. The procedure has the potential to hurt resident's foundations and drink... Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You: Would You Like Sugar With That? Brasch, Walter Article 2014 The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the ... Bakken Business: The price of North Dakota's fracking boom Manning, Richard Article 2013 Manning the widespread fracking in the Bakken formation (North Dakota), and the environmental and social repercussions it causes. Big Oil's Ethical Violence: BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia Coleman, Lara Montesinos Article 2015 To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions bet... Bloody Oil: Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth Worth, Jess Article 2009 The extraction of oil from tar sands is perhaps the most ecologically insane idea on the planet. Four First Nations representatives from Canada travelled to Britain to participate in the London climat... Boom for whom? The Canadian Impacts of the Tar Sands Article 2011 A summary of the devasting impacts of the tar sands as they affect the different regions of Canada. Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling Monbiot, George Article 2009 Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, dive... Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley Aamjiwnaang Solidarity members Article 2015 About the effects of "Chemical Valley" in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area. Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador: Iler, Kirsten Article 2014 A storm of controversy erupted amongst Canadian lawyers when the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) decided to intervene in Chevron's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal is part of Chevron's... Chevron Whistleblower Videos Show Deliberate Falsification Of Evidence In Ecuador Oil Pollution Trial Gaworecki,Mike Article 2015 Chevron lost the lawsuit filed against the company by Indigenous villagers who say Texaco, which merged with Chevron, left hundreds of open, unlined pits full of toxic oil waste in the Amazon rainfore... Chevron's Crude Attacks: Court Sides With Big Oil Winship, Michael Article 2011 Yet another instance of the increasingly pro-business stance of the US legal system. Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth Brasch, Walter Article 2015 The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth. Connexions: Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation Serial Publication (Periodical) 1980 Connexions: Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique Serial Publication (Periodical) 1981 Connexions: Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises Serial Publication (Periodical) 1981 Connexions Library: Environment Focus  Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use. Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil Maass, Peter Book 2009 Investigation of oil as major driver in the power dynamics of the world, and of the 'oil curse', which seems to make the countries that export it poorer, not richer. $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster: Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change Prupis, Nadia Article 2014 Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fu... The end of oil Mired in crude: New Internationalist June 2001 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2001 A look into the facts of the Oil business and its effects on the places it is being harvested. EnvironmentSources.com Website 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and importa... Food, Shelter and the American Dream Aronowitz, Stanley Book 1974 Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions. Fossil Fuel Industry Benefits from $20 Billion in Subsidies in the U.S. Horn, Steve Article 2015 A new joint investigative report by Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute reveals that, in the United States alone, the fossil fuel industry has benefited from over $20 billi... Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom Jervey, Ben Article 2015 The Fossil Fuel Industry promotes a plan in U.S. schools to address global climate change. Their plan includes denial, doubt and promoting the merits of fossil fuel.
Fracking Hell: The environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom EFU Film Film/Video 2014 The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter d... Fracking Indigenous Country: Big Green, Sun Media and Elsipogtog Stainsby, Macdonald Article 2013 Police attack the Mi’kmaq community of Elsipogtog in New Brunswick. Fractured Land Gillis, Damien; Rayher, Fiona (directors) Film/Video 2015 A Canadian feature documentary film profiling the Dene activist Caleb Behn as he goes through law school and builds a movement around greater awareness of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on First Nati... Future dustbowl? Fracking ravages Great Plains land and water Radford,Tim Article 2015 The fracking boom has caused massive vegetation loss over North America's rangelands, as 3 million hectares have been occupied by oil and gas infrastructure and 34 billion cubic metres of water have b... Gasland Fox, Josh Film 2010 Today, communities in the United States are being more and more affected by natural gas drilling and, specifically, hydraulic fracturing.
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription Gelbspan, Ross Book 1997 A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change. How Big Oil Plans to Win Ugly in New York: Leaked Transcript from PR Maven Shows Energy Companies will be Told to Make the Fight Against Fracking Opponents Personal Federman, Adam Article 2014 A PR firm well known for its hardball tactics in defense of Big Tobacco will deliver the keynote address at tonight’s Independent Oil and Gas Association conference. Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania Brown, Alleen Article 2015 Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipe... I'll bet you didn't know you own billions of dollars in coal stocks Fillmore, Nick Article 2016 Exposing the investments and other involvements of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the fossil fuel industry. Jurassic Ballot Solnit, Rebecca Article 2010 This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do their bidding. Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands: A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole Stainsby, Macdonald Article 2013 The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding. Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9: Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project Article 2015 A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to ... Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands MacKinnon, Hannah Article 2015 Climate change is here and now. And if world leaders had heeded scientific warnings 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even as recently as the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 -- it's p... Louisianans, Oil & Petro-Addiction: Against The Current vol. 147 Marks, Brian Article 2010 The Deepwater Horizon oil horror has again focused the nation on South Louisiana. For the second time in less than five years, we are on the front pages of America’s newspapers. Again, this region is ... The Money Gusher Monbiot, George Article 2010 The oil industry's decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them. Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman Kelly, Sharon Article 2014 Leave it to Washington's top attack-dog lobbyist Richard Berman to verify what many always suspected: that the oil and gas industry uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and discr... One Year of the BP Blowout: Against The Current vol. 153 Alvar, Pauline M. Article 2011 In the years after Hurricane Katrina, I saw New Orleanians suffer from lack of health care. The storm and subsequent flooding caused immediate illness, with infections from the foul flood water and de... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015: Residential schools Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assim... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016: Science and its enemies Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of t... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018: What are we eating? Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2018 What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant la... Pipeline Company Paid Pennsylvania Police Department to 'Deter Protests' Federman, Adam Article 2015 Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeli... Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power Coll, Steve Book 2012 The first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil, Private Empire is the masterful result of Coll’s indefatigable reporting. A penetrating, newsbreaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of ... Pungesti, Romania: people versus Chevron and riot police Summerchild, Alex Article 2013 Pungesti is at the terrifying front line of Romania's resource war - where villagers are fighting off rapacious corporations and their private army of violent riot police, backed by corrupt politician... The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food Wilson, Allison Article 2014 Many fracking chemicals are known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors or other classes of toxins. Studies carried out during the ongoing fracking boom, uncovered serious adverse effects including respir... Reversing Enbridge & Big Oil's Pipeline Plans Nelson, Joyce Article 2015 The National Academy of Sciences is skewering the industry's 'oil is oil' talking point -- making it clear that diluted bitumen is a different beast altogether and needs to be treated as such. The ago... Romania - a Peasants' Revolt against Fracking Wickens, Jim; Paraic O'Brien, Paraic Article 2014 Earthquakes and poisoned wells are setting off a revolt against fracking in Romania, revealing deep fault lines between the rural heartlands and the urban political elite. Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry Nikiforuk, Andrew Book 2015 A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of B... The Squeeze: Oil Money and Greed in the 21st Century Bower, Tom Book 2009 A review the big business of the oil industry across the globe, and the lengths (depths) to which they will go to maximise profits. Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada Horn, Steve Article 2016 A groundbreaking study published in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for oil and gas and earthquakes. Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care) Marsden, William Book 2007 As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, ... Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press: Volume VI Number 6 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1978 Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the mos... Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent Nikiforuk, Andrew Book 2010 To extract the energy from the Alberta tar sands, the world's ugliest, most expensive hydrocrabon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast areas of boreal forest, and underminin... Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists' Dolack, Pete Article 2015 Canada's Harper government has targeted as a new crime being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism. Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won't Frack the Rich Kelly, Sharon Article 2016 Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the "big houses" of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country's most prominent shale drilling compa... TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline Patterson, Brent Article 2014 There are now multiple news articles that report Calgary-based TransCanada hired the controversial public relations firm Edelman in an attempt to derail growing public opposition to its proposed 1.1 m... Viva Yasuni! Life vs Big Oil: New Internationalist July 2008 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2008 A look at the Yasuni rainforest in Ecuador and its imminent destruction by oil companies. Washington and the Oil Industry Know the Truth About Climate Change: Short-Term Profits Trump Survival Lindorff, Dave Article 2014 Climate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant action in the US on ... When oil is more important than life: Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon Moiola, Paolo Article 2014 The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethni... Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment Street, Paul Article 2015 In a series of articles based on internal documents from Exxon Mobil going back to the 1970s and on interviews with former company scientists and employees, ICN shows that Exxon's "own research confir... 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare Article 2015 On issues ranging from climate change to food safety, from open Internet to access to medicines, the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a disaster. Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesLindaMcQuaig.com The website of writer Linda McQuaig.
Sources Sources specializes in collecting, indexing, and disseminating information to help journalists, editors, and researchers quickly reach articulate experts and spokespersons who can provide background i... Sources LibraryAnatomy of the Oil States - book Review Against The Current vol. 157 2012 It's taken for granted that the upheavals in much of the Middle East — and great-power decisions about which conflicts are worthy of “humanitarian intervention” and/or “regime change” — have a lot to ... Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case Lobe, Jim 2014 In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spillage and their U.S. attorney could not collect on a nine-billi... Death on the Bakken shale 2015 North Dakota's fracking industry has the highest worker fatality rates in the US. Why are so many dying and who should be held responsible? Dirty Water, Dirtier Practices Ecuador's Battle with Texaco's Legacy Pollution Ospina, Hernando Calvo 2014 Texaco (now owned by Chevron) left polluted soil and ground water after 20 years of oil extraction in the Amazon in Ecuador. The legal claims and counter-claims over responsibility and reparation cont... Edelman's TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry's Broad Attack on Public Interest Demelle, Brendan 2014 The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a "grassroots advocacy" campaign plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to oil... Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF Carrington,Damian 2015 Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day. Misleading figures on greenhouse gas emissions Letter to the editor Diemer, Ulli 2018 A letter to the editor from an oil industry apologist (April 12) tries to excuse the Alberta oilsands’ growing carbon emissions with the argument that Canada accounts for “just” 1.6 per cent of global... The oil war Sérén, Jean-Pierre 2013 Declassified documents now reveal what everybody, especially the Iraqis, always knew: the US invaded Iraq to secure its oil supplies for US and allied companies. It hasn't quite worked out as planned. What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know Nikiforuk, Andrew 2010 Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here's what they knew. |
