Sentences with phrase «of ethical oil»

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

Solomon: Some have said that Enbridge, which is building the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, is a funder of Ethical Oil and that they're using your group to disempower environmentalists that oppose this.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.&raqOil 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.&raqoil producers, like Shell, that make billions of dollars exploiting their definition of «conflict oil.&raqoil.»

In addition, the brand she suggested (Spectrum) works with a family - owned sustainable palm forest, so she's done her best to find an ethical source of this particular oil.

At a time when the conversation around palm oil centres on deforestation, fires and habitat loss — and global demand shows no signs of abating — several companies have come together to create Palm Done Right, a new standard for ethical palm oil production...

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.

«Our focus is on ethical sourcing, from detailing palm oil content on Coles products, to stocking a range of Fairtrade certified teas and coffees, to our recently announced Coles free - range pork,» she adds.

The IG report describes «a culture of ethical failure» in which staffers accepted vacations and other pricey gifts from oil companies, rigged contracts, did drugs with one another and had sex with industry reps.

Ethical Consumer's Palm Oil Free Product List, which includes dozens of rainforest - friendly baby foods, cereal bars, chocolate bars, pet foods, shampoos and soaps, is a good place to start.

If that's too ambitious, Shea Terra makes an amazing cold - pressed hibiscus oil, and Amazon sells dried hibiscus powder from a host of ethical retailers.

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.

That's one reason Peter Maass, no friend of big oil, said here last year that it was more ethical to drill in United States waters than to continue to outsource our environmental problems.

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.

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.

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.

Canada's oil sands (and the Keystone Pipeline that will bring their petroleum to the United States) must be evaluated on environmental and ethical grounds that compare them to real world alternatives to them — not to some utopian energy resource that exists only in the minds of idealists, ideologues and special interest environmental pressure groups.

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And, since BP, Shell, Exxon and other big oil companies are major backers of research you and your colleagues engage in, you are also much less than sincere in your diversionary tactics than an ethical person would otherwise be.

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.

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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.

You want ethical, not a drop of crude oil should be exported, only finished products leave our borders or leave it in the ground.

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.

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.»

The Singapore - based firm was already a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, the world's largest association for ethical production of the commodity, found in everything from chocolate to laundry detergent.

Malaysia's IOI Group has regained the right to sell «certified sustainable» palm oil under the brand of the RSPO, the world's largest association for ethical production of the commodity.

Part of what makes the oil we produce here in Canada ethical is our commitment to the high environmental standards.

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.

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.

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.

You can not call our oil «ethical» based on a contrast between those governments and ours, without pointing to obviously unethical willingness on the part of the Canadian government to sell boat loads of weapons to all of these governments.

«Blood Diamonds» awoke the world to the horror of warlords and their atrocities; so, «Ethical Oil» will wake the world up to the despotic regimes in Conflict Oil Countries.

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.

Its own ethical cleansing campaign has, for years, consisted of endless stories about links between oil companies, policy - makers and public organisations, dominating the debate.

«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.

The Ethical Oil label came to prominence in Ezra Levant's book of the same name, earlier this year.

(He is the brother of Arthur Kent, the «Scud Stud» of the 1991 gulf war) His pitch on the tar sands: it's not dirty oil, it's ethical oil.

The corporate - funded special interests and lobbyists opposed to giving the United States greater access to Canada's Ethical Oil have been taking advantage of the recent rupture of ExxonMobil's Silvertip pipeline — spilling 1,000 barrels of oil into Montana's Yellowstone River — to try and scare Americans away from the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which promises to deliver billions of... Continue Reading&raqOil have been taking advantage of the recent rupture of ExxonMobil's Silvertip pipeline — spilling 1,000 barrels of oil into Montana's Yellowstone River — to try and scare Americans away from the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which promises to deliver billions of... Continue Reading&raqoil into Montana's Yellowstone River — to try and scare Americans away from the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which promises to deliver billions of... Continue Reading»