From one disaster to another..
Early on during Deepwater, I blogged on how the Canadians were looking to exploit the spill to push their dirty oil.
The fact has not been lost on the industry bible, the Petroleum Economist, (PE) which notes in its July edition that “whisper it, but the US’ misfortune could be Canada’s gain”. [...]

The industry’s PR response from Deepwater is shaping up nicely. This is the industry message:
We will give you improved safety and you give us resumed drilling. The Gulf of Mexico represents energy security and jobs for the boys to boot.
The tar sands of Canada also represent energy security, so if you let us build a [...]

Earlier this month, I blogged how the tar sands lobby was trying to exploit BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill.
Well the pro-tar sands argument has once again been blown out of the water by a report from the social investment network, Ceres.
It argues that the environmental and financial risks of producing oil in Canada’s vast oil [...]

I was talking to a colleague who works on oil issues yesterday about the Gulf of Mexico spill.
As we chewed over the unfolding disaster, he said “the trouble is that the spill might make Canada’s tar sands more attractive for American politicians.”
Right on cue, hours later another colleague sent an article from the Calgary Herald [...]

When faced with a PR battle, one of the fossil fuel industry’s tactics is to set up a supposed grass-roots organisation or “Astroturf” organisation.
So Citizens for the Environment had no citizens in it – it was just a front for big oil and other polluting industries. The Global Climate Coalition was also no such thing [...]