In addition to looking like environmental crime scenes, unconventional oil projects are a global catastrophe: tar sands for example create around three times more emissions than the same barrel of conventional oil.
This past Sunday, thousands from the Sierra Club, 350.org, and other environmental allies surrounded the White House to tell President Obama to just say no to the Keystone XL Pipeline, a Canadian venture to move global warming tar sands oil across the U.S. to our gulf coast refineries.
They stuck their head in the sand over global warming.
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"This depiction is clearly aided by the photographs of ugly surface-mined landscapes, but the claims of global supremacy for oil sands environmental impacts do not accord with any credible quantitative evidence of environmental damage".
Last month, Cnooc, the world's largest oil explorer, launched China's most expensive foreign takeover bid by agreeing to buy Nexen, whose global portfolios include oil sands and shale gas.
His ebullience is one more sign that the sands of global financial power are shifting toward new institutions in boom markets like China and away from established Wall Street firms like Bear.
Whether through political expediency or a looming realisation that the shifting sands of global football politics and Westminster threatened to leave it isolated if Scudamore did not engage with issues around financial controls and home-grown players, the Premier League has decided to play ball.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had the opportunity at Lambeth 2008 to act like the wise man he is and build the future of the Anglican Communion on the solid rock of honest differences and not on the shifting sands of global Anglican politics.
