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  1. Alarm sounded as TransCanada set to drill in Bay of Fundy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 drinking water, along with the natural environment.
  2. Anatomy of the Oil States - book Review
    Against The Current vol. 157
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 do with oil and who profits from it. But understanding the dynamics behind the headlines requires more detailed and careful analysis. Adam Hanieh’s Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States is a welcome materialist contribution.
  3. Are We Drawing the Right Lessons from the Gulf Oil Disaster?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    We are already hearing calls from environmentalists for a moratorium on oil drilling and exploration in coastal zones, with a definite "I told you so" attitude. Unfortunately, that would be drawing precisely the wrong lesson from the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You
    Would You Like Sugar With That?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 earth.
  5. Bakken Business
    The price of North Dakota's fracking boom
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Manning the widespread fracking in the Bakken formation (North Dakota), and the environmental and social repercussions it causes.
  6. Bennett Jones LLP
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  7. Big Oil's Ethical Violence
    BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence.
  8. Boom for whom? The Canadian Impacts of the Tar Sands
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    A summary of the devasting impacts of the tar sands as they affect the different regions of Canada.
  9. Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
  10. Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    About the effects of "Chemical Valley" in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area.
  11. Canadian Centre for Energy Information
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  12. Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador
    Iler, Kirsten
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 battle against Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples who seek to enforce a massive court judgment against the company for environmental damage in Ecuador.
  13. Chevron Whistleblower Videos Show Deliberate Falsification Of Evidence In Ecuador Oil Pollution Trial
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 rainforest. Nevertheless, the company attempts to retry the case.
  14. Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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-billion-dollar judgement by Ecuador’s supreme court against the Chevron Corporation.
  15. Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
  16. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  17. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  18. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  19. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  20. Connexions Library: Environment Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
  21. Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 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.
  22. Death on the Bakken shale
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 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?
  23. Dirty Water, Dirtier Practices
    Ecuador's Battle with Texaco's Legacy Pollution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 continue.
  24. Edelman's TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry's Broad Attack on Public Interest
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 and pipelines generally. Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed for years to win approval of the controversial border-crossing Keystone XL pipeline, so apparently the company has decided to "win ugly or lose pretty" with an aggressive public relations attack on its opponents.
  25. $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
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 fund the discovery of new gas, coal, and oil deposits around the world.
  26. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 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 important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  27. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
  28. Fossil Fuel Industry Benefits from $20 Billion in Subsidies in the U.S.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 billion per year in government subsidies between 2008-2015.
  29. Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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.
  30. Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day.
  31. Fracking Hell
    The environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 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 dispute over environmental damage and community rights.
  32. Fracking Indigenous Country
    Big Green, Sun Media and Elsipogtog
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Police attack the Mi’kmaq community of Elsipogtog in New Brunswick.
  33. Fractured Land
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 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 Nations lands.
  34. Future dustbowl? Fracking ravages Great Plains land and water
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 been pumped from semi-arid ecosystems.
  35. Governments Giving Fossil Fuel Companies $10 Million a Minute: IMF
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
  36. The Heat Is On
    The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
  37. 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
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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.
  38. Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 pipeline construction site. The hiring came after a request from the corporation for uniformed officers that could "deter protests and prevent delays."
  39. I'll bet you didn't know you own billions of dollars in coal stocks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Exposing the investments and other involvements of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the fossil fuel industry.
  40. In Sarnia's Chemical Valley, is 'toxic soup' making people sick?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Experts and documents cast doubts on whether industry and Ontario government are revealing levels of benzene in areas where residents live right near oil and gas facilities.
  41. Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands
    A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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.
  42. Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9
    Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 Open' status granted to the Enbridge Line 9B reversal project by the National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.
  43. Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 possible we would be well on our way to securing the decarbonized future that the world desperately needs.
  44. Misleading figures on greenhouse gas emissions
    Letter to the editor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 greenhouse gas emissions. Even if that figure were accurate, it would mean that Canada is producing emissions which are more than three times as large as its proportion of the world’s population.
  45. NEB Hearings start in Toronto today, here's what they won't be hearing
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A banner drop and a series of gagged protestors demonstrated what is being left out of the National Energy Board (NEB) hearings that are taking place this week in Toronto. The subject of the hearings is Enbridge's Line 9 reversal and expansion propos
  46. Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 discredit journalists who cast doubt on the prudence of fossil fuels.
  47. The oil war
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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.
  48. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
    Residential schools
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 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 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
  49. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
    Science and its enemies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 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 the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
  50. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 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 labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
  51. Randy Park, Author and Speaker -- "Thinking for Results"
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  52. Pipeline Company Paid Pennsylvania Police Department to 'Deter Protests'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan's aim, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, was to use law enforcement to "deter protests" in order to avoid "costly delays."
  53. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  54. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 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 ExxonMobil and the place of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy.
  55. Pungesti, Romania: people versus Chevron and riot police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 politicians.
  56. The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 respiratory, reproductive, and growth-related problems in animals and a spectrum of symptoms in humans that they termed “shale gas syndrome”.
  57. Reversing Enbridge & Big Oil's Pipeline Plans
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 agonizingly slow and costly Kalamazoo River spill cleanup in Michigan made many of these points clear. Yet, the tar sands industry has continued to insist that diluted bitumen creates no deeper environmental threat as they push for unsustainable growth. While Keystone XL is off the table, there are numerous other projects being considered that extend the unique pipeline problems of dilbit into communities across North America.
  58. Romania - a Peasants' Revolt against Fracking
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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.
  59. 'Rublegas:' the world's new resource-based reserve currency
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    Rublegas is the commodity currency du jour and it isn't nearly as complicated as NATO pretends. If Europe wants gas, all it needs to do is send its Euros to a Russian account inside Russia.
  60. Slick Water
    Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 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 Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
  61. Sometimes You Need to Micromanage
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Micromanagement is a bugbear in most organizations. Despite the bad reputation of micromanagement, I think it is often missing in organizations.
  62. The Squeeze: Oil Money and Greed in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 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.
  63. Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A groundbreaking study published in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for oil and gas and earthquakes.
  64. Stupid to the Last Drop
    How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    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, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
  65. Tar Sands
    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 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 undermining democracy.
  66. Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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.
  67. Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won't Frack the Rich
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 companies told a gathering of attorneys at a seminar on oil and gas environmental law.
  68. TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 million barrels per day Energy East tar sands pipeline.
  69. Washington and the Oil Industry Know the Truth About Climate Change
    Short-Term Profits Trump Survival
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 reducing this country’s emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, but at the Pentagon, and in the executive suites of the oil industry giants, there is no doubt about the reality of climate change.
  70. What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here's what they knew.
  71. When oil is more important than life
    Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.
  72. Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 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 confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming decades ago." Yes, decades ago -- during the late 1970s to be precise.
  73. 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On issues ranging from climate change to food safety, from open Internet to access to medicines, the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a disaster.

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