Sentences with phrase «ethical oil»

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.

The pro-tar sands Ethical Oil campaign — which says that the industry is becoming «more ethical each day» — likes to claim that emissions from the tar sands have been reduced.

And when it comes to dressing it up, Alykhan Velshi of Ethical Oil outdoes Ernie Coombs.

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

Former cabinet minister Monte Solberg lays out the case for ethical oil in the Sun newspapers — and manages to do it in a pretty funny way, too.

Anyone who's been closely following the organized lobby against Canada's ethical oil sands knows that many of the ENGOs (Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations) here in Canada that have been attacking oil sands development are really front groups for big American trusts.

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The arguments put forward by Ethical Oil are misleading and disingenuous.

If Enbridge funds Ethical Oil, I'd love to know.

There is no doubt that countries Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Nigeria have earned their reputations for having horrible human rights and environmental records, but I have never heard Ethical Oil directly challenge the multinational oil companies that operate in those countries.

Partnerships with Myanmar and Sudan... links to Burmese heroin traffickers... With this cast of characters partnering in the development of the Northern Gateway, you'd think Ethical Oil would be at the front of the line condemning the pipeline.

In his increasingly reckless attack on Western Canadian energy producers and workers, the NDP's Thomas Mulcair yesterday compared Canada's Ethical Oil industry, employing thousands of decent and hard working Canadians, to the impoverished and corruption riddled Nigeria.

Interviewed Thursday on CTV's Power Play, Sen. Graham, called for the Obama administration to get on with approving the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that will deliver nearly a million barrels of new ethical oil daily to U.S. markets.

«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.

There is no such thing as ethical oil.

I actually liked Levant's book Ethical Oil and totally agree with him that oil from Alberta is far more «ethical» than oil from Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia (a nation that beheads almost 70 citizens a year for crimes that include adultery, apostasy, and witchcraft).

Perhaps most notorious is a rant by Ezra Levant, host of The Source and author of Ethical Oil, last September.

Why does the left prefer Hugo Chavez's oil to CDA's ethical oil?»

(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 wealth.

So while I think the «ethical oil» label is rather, well, crude, I think the people promoting that label are at least doing us the unintentional service of reminding us that it's far from clear what counts as an ethical source of energy.

In today's National Post, the Fraser Institute «s Mark Milke argues that there is, and that «the ethical oil tag is useful shorthand for why Canada's oil is preferable to that extracted elsewhere.»

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

The group behind the «ethical oil» play can't really expect the rest of us to start using the term to differentiate Canadian from other oil.

I just wish I could believe that the people pushing the «ethical oil» label for my country's oil were doing it to advance the debate, rather than to score points in it.

The folks flying the «ethical oil» banner have responded by suggesting Canadians should boycott Chiquita.

To begin, you don't have to be a big fan of the oilsands to acknowledge that it is with some justice that the «ethical oil» advocates suggest that what the boycott means, in practice, is that Chiquita is going to be getting its oil from sources at least as ethically - fraught as the oilsands.

Starting with Mr. Levant, the Ethical Oil mantra has becomes a rotating door for young conservative activists.

If you have been paying any attention to Canadian politics on Twitter or have tuned into any of the Sun Media outlets over the past few days, you will have undoubtably noticed that the greenwashing website «Ethical Oil» has launched the Great Canadian Banana Boycott.

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.»

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.»

The website suggests that «ethical oil» is a «fair trade» alternative to «conflict oil» exploited in some of our world's more politically oppressive and environmentally reckless countries.

His Ethical Oil is an eye - opening companion to my own Eco-Imperialism, which chronicles the often lethal misdeeds of other self - righteous pressure groups.

Ethical Oil stopped by to remind people we all have a choice to make: ethical oil from Canada or conflict oil from some... Continue Reading»

Levant himself coined the term «ethical oil» in 2009 after being involved in a panel on tar sands oil.

Ethical oil is an oxymoron.

In Canada, the dirty energy industry lobby has been hard at work creating whitewash campaigns to help sell Canadian tar sands to the rest of the world, even claiming that they are producing «ethical oil,» whatever that is.