Twelve oil sands producers recently announced the creation of a collaboration to accelerate improvement in environmental performance, the Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA): “Through COSIA, participating companies will capture, develop and share the most innovative approaches and best thinking to improve environmental performance in the oil sands, initially focusing on four Environmental Priority Areas [...]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Alberta’s Oilsands: Regeneration as the Aspiration
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011The story-line is familiar: Big Oil wants to produce, transport and market Alberta’s Oilsands at a pace needed to sustain economic yields and Canadians’ quality of life. Environmentalists want to slow down, contain, restrain, even stop, Oilsands activity to sustain the Earth, the ecology and human habitat. Both economists and environmentalists focus on ‘sustainability’ as [...]
EU oil sands ranking disturbs
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011By: Claudia Cattaneo You’d think that the European Union has enough on its hands dealing with the sovereign debt crisis that it doesn’t have the capacity to fire up a new one. Yet the European Commission did just that when it approved this week a green ranking of fuels that singles out Canada’s oil sands [...]
Celebrating Meaningful Labour
Monday, September 5th, 2011It’s Labour Day – a stat holiday when many take a break from work to actually think about what work means to us. In the present economy, if you have a job, that fact alone may be sufficient cause for celebration. Bemoaning a lack of ‘meaningful’ work could be frowned upon. And yet, we all [...]
In Praise of Leading From Behind
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011By: Anne Applebaum Finally, the Libyan revolution ended the way it was supposed to. “A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side and a colorful entry into the capital,” as Evelyn Waugh would have put it. That was the Western policy for the war—except that the war went on longer [...]
Decision Fatigue: another drag on our ability to achieve corporate integrity
Monday, August 22nd, 2011An article in this weekend’s New York Times magazine caught my attention: Do you suffer from decision fatigue? Good question…not just in our personal lives but in our corporate environments as well. Routinely, companies and governments and other organizations commit to act with integrity, then fail to make the decisions needed to achieve and/or sustain [...]
Bearspaw First Nation sweeps out old council leadership in contested election
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Calgary Herald By: Jamie Komarnicki A political veteran elected chief of the Bearspaw First Nation says he must first address the fractured family clans — and costly legal bills — left behind from the vote. Darcy Dixon landed the band’s top job from embattled former chief David Bearspaw in an election that saw voters make [...]
Romney to Hecklers: ‘Corporations Are People’
Thursday, August 11th, 2011By: Ashley Parker DES MOINES, Iowa — Mitt Romney, who likes to promote his years in the private sector when out on the stump, offered a glimpse into his own business perspective at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, telling a group of hecklers, “Corporations are people, my friend.” Mr. Romney was speaking at the fair’s [...]