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Alberta can’t handle tar sands expansion, says new report June 16, 2008 A new report out of Alberta today says the province “should not approve more oilsands upgraders near Edmonton until the province has a solid plan to limit the huge volume of fresh water they will use and to better manage the pollution they will produce,” according to CTV. (more...) Life, Liberty, Water: An article in Yes! Magazine by Maude Barlow May 28, 2008 As climate change and worldwide shortages loom, will people fight over water or join together to protect it? A global water justice movement is demanding a change in international law to settle once and for all the question of who controls water. (more...) U.S. environmentalist Robert Kennedy again warns Canada about bulk water exports May 23, 2008 U.S. environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. is again warning Canada that the U.S. is thirsty for northern water, and he’s urging Canadians to pressure the government to enact tougher laws banning bulk water removals. (more...) Dead birds and water shortages in boomtown Alberta May 2, 2008 By now the whole world knows about the 500 ducks that died after landing in one of Syncrude’s toxic tailing ponds in Northern Alberta. The tragedy occurred just after the province had put aside $25 million in public relations cash to convince the White House that tar sands crude was environmentally friendly. (more...) Nothing new from the Disaster Summit but dangerous SPP initiatives live on April 29, 2008 The media and business consensus following last week’s Security and Prosperity Partnership summit in New Orleans is that the trilateral meeting didn’t produce anything significant. While this is partly correct – no new initiatives were announced – the ones we’re stuck with are bad enough. And while we learned a few new things about the SPP’s progress since Montebello, very few of the details ended up in the news. (more...) U.S. states may seek Great Lakes water April 24, 2008 As reported by Michael Oliveira of the Canadian Press yesterday, “Parched U.S. states could start ‘water wars’ in the years ahead and fight for access to Great Lakes resources as they become more desperate to meet growing needs, Canadian and American experts said Wednesday at a water conference.” (more...) Is the tar sands’ water supply protected by NAFTA? April 16, 2008 Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, is warning Albertans that the government “could be forced to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to foreign-owned oilsands companies under NAFTA if a drought forced the province to ration water,” according to an article in the Edmonton Journal. (more...) February 14, 2008 While it’s refreshing to see the Globe and Mail call for regulation of interbasin freshwater removals, the Munk Centre's Model Water Act touted in Monday's editorial fails to explain how this may be achieved under our existing trade and constitutional arrangements. (more...)
January 18, 2008 Robert Kennedy Jr. came to Canada this week with a strong message -- don’t sell your water to the United States. (more...)
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