Not exact matches
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 weal
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 weal
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 wealth.
Let's look at a rough sketch of what are likely to be the perceived negative
ethical implications of
oil from the top 10 countries listed
by oil production:
Inspired
by conservative political pundit Ezra Levant «s book
by the same name, the
Ethical Oil website purports to «encourage people, businesses and governments to choose Ethical Oil from Canada, its oil sands and other liberal democracies.&raq
Oil website purports to «encourage people, businesses and governments to choose
Ethical Oil from Canada, its oil sands and other liberal democracies.&raq
Oil from Canada, its
oil sands and other liberal democracies.&raq
oil sands and other liberal democracies.»
The most boycotted companies include Amazon (which is subject to an
Ethical Consumer boycott call over their tax avoidance), supermarket giant Tesco and
oil company Shell, followed
by Primark and Coke.
Awhile back, I drew attention to the views of Peter Maass, hardly an
oil - industry defender, who said it would be more
ethical for the United States to drill in home waters and
by doing so to take full responsibility for managing the risks attending our unrelenting
oil appetite.
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.
At the core is «GoNewclear,» a communications agency run
by Hamish Marshall, husband of former
Ethical Oil spokesperson Kathryn Marshall and a former Conservative campaigner.
We actually don't know for sure that Enbridge is behind the so - called
Ethical Oil Institute, a phony grassroots organization that was established
by Ezra Levant and run for most of its first year
by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's current Director of Planning, Alykhan Velshi.
By blocking the construction of the proposed Keystone XL, which would have delivered roughly one million barrels of
ethical Canadian
oil to American markets every single day, the president prevented the potential displacement of existing
oil imports from illiberal and undemocratic OPEC regimes like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
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