Sentences with phrase «as ethical oil»

There is no such thing as ethical oil.

In a speech in Toronto, he also says «There's no such thing as ethical oil,» he said.

As the Ethical Oil website denounces and promotes boycotts of companies that question the environmental record of Alberta's oilsands, the website does nothing to promote a boycott of unethical oil producers, like Shell, that make billions of dollars exploiting their definition of «conflict oil.»

Not exact matches

(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)

It's not too much of an exaggeration to say the 2012 budget was inspired by, and might as well have been written by, Ethical Oil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealOil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealoil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealth.

Branding the product of Canada's oilsands as «ethical oil» — differentiating it from purportedly unethical Saudi Arabian oil — makes the same mistake.

As the «pay for work» practice is especially prevalent at the commodity - sourcing level of the food supply chain, the «No Fees» initiative initially focused on promoting ethical recruitment in palm oil and seafood sourcing, and has now scaled up to include companies in the electronics, apparel, and extractives sectors.

To ensure our purchases do not contribute to deforestation, loss of biodiversity or social issues such as forced and child labor and human trafficking, Kraft Heinz seeks to procure palm oil products in an ethical, transparent, responsible and sustainable manner.

There's no need for seafood, as I find the evidence favoring lower complete protein diets from longevity studies compelling, and there's nothing unique to seafood that can't be found as an ethical supplement (eg, algal oil for EPA / DHA, synthetic taurine).

For pregnant and nursing women, I've heard him recommend a plant based DHA supplement which is from algae (that's where fish get it from in the first place) but a lot of the algae DHA supplements are so impure, sadly, but I take OmegaZen pure DHA for that reason as it has completely pure ingredients and is palm oil free which is not only a good thing for health, but ethical reasons.

«Canada is promoting tar sands oil as a clean and ethical energy source, when we know that the exact opposite is the case,» said Suzanne Dhaliwal, from the UK Tar Sands Network.

About foreign interests, The Northern Gateway pipeline is being designed to supply «ethical» crude oil to china at a bargain price which Canada will buy back as finished product for top dollar.

EthicalOil.org's former manager Kathryn Marshall refused to answer the question of whether the Ethical Oil Institute received funding from Enbridge, which many viewed as suggesting a possible connection.

Ezra Levant is a Canadian television and radio personality, conservative political activist, and author of Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the book that popularized the phrase «Ethical Oil,» which is now being used by the conservative government in Canada as justification for the expansion of the Athabasca tar sands.

According to Levant, «If we actually want to make the world a better place, a more moral place, the ethical thing to do is to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of the oil sands, knowing that every barrel we produce in Canada displaces a fascist barrel from Saudi Arabia, a misogynist barrel from Iran and a dictatorial barrel from Venezuela.»

Their pathetic re-branding attempts with the Ethical Oil campaign and trying to brand the anti-pipeline activists as unpatriotic have been counter-productive.

To date, less than 1 percent of independent smallholder farms are certified as sustainable under the ISPO and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world's largest association for ethical production of palm oOil (RSPO), the world's largest association for ethical production of palm oiloil.

But as this Reuters analysis explains, oil from new, ethical sources, is also a big contributor to their angst.

The comments came fast and furious to Canada's New Environment Minister's Job: Shill The Tar Sands as «Ethical Oil», some in particular found Andrew Nikiforuk's criticism of the term to be a bit over the top.

«As the ad in question is the subject of a legal dispute between Ethical Oil and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, at the advisement of our legal department we will not accept the order until the matter is resolved,» the company said in a statement.

See also: Canada's Ethical Oil Tar Sands Campaign Really Says «Stay Addicted To Oil» Canada's New Environment Minister's Job: Shill The Tar Sands as «Ethical Oil» Critics Respond To Canadian Government's Shilling of Tar Sands as «Ethical Oil»

And perhaps most importantly, the conversation is moving beyond ethical concerns: some analysts say that $ 1tr of oil investments are at risk as the clean energy transition picks up pace.

I'll be blunt: The pathetic attempt by the Canadian government to rebrand the highly polluting, highly environmental destructive, highly energy and carbon intensive tar sands industry as «ethical oil» rears its ugly head again via CBC News.

I'll be blunt: The pathetic attempt by the Canadian government to rebrand the highly polluting, highly environmental destructive, highly energy and carbon intensive tar sands industry as «ethical oil» rears its ugly head again via

After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.