Northern Gateway “interveners” signed up without their knowledge;

“I don’t know what you are talking about,” said the 53-year-old woman on Tuesday from her home.
“I have never heard of this pipeline and I did not apply to speak in Canada,” she said, in broken English.
That’s strange. On the federal government’s National Energy Board website, Gudic is one of a whopping 4,522 registrants who apparently applied online to make an oral application. Her name, mailing address, e-mail and phone number are included on the website.
Gudic’s daughter, Flavia, also has never heard of the pipeline, that, if approved, would ship raw Alberta bitumen to Kitimat, B.C., to be sent to Asia via supertankers.
“Maybe the environmental organizations we donate to signed us up,” offered Flavia, a 19-year-old art student.

MayBE!

A regular reader, via email;

As a regulatory affairs worker in the natural resource industry, I’m heartened by the ongoing discussion on how so-called environmentalists are taking over the regulatory process.
That said, how many of your commenters have ever intervened at one of these environmental assessments or written to their respective environment ministers expressing their support for a certain project or process?
Interventions at these EA processes are taken very seriously, which is why environmental groups make a concerted effort to produce swaths of form letters in opposition to anything which might conceivably benefit resource producers.
Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is betting that far more Canadians favour jobs and business opportunity over economic stagnation. I encourage your readers to show his government that there are people in this country who support our major industrial projects and are in favour of a strong, free and prosperous Canada.

The Honourable Peter Kent
Minister of the Environment
10 Wellington Street, 28th Floor
Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819-997-1441
Fax: 819-953-0279
Email: Minister@ec.gc.ca
The Honourable Joe Oliver
Minister of Natural Resources
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
Tel.: 613-992-6361
Fax: 613-992-9791
EMail: Joe.Oliver@parl.gc.ca
Major Projects Management Office
155 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E4
Fax: 613 995-7555
E-mail: mpmo-bggp@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca
Information on participating in the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency: http://www.ceaa.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=8A52D8E4-1

Via Ethical Oil;

“We have to have processes in Canada that come to a decision in a reasonable amount of time and processes that cannot be hijacked,” [PM Stephen Harper] said on Friday.
“In particular, growing concern has been expressed to me about the use of foreign money to really overload the public consultation phase of regulatory hearings just for the purpose of slowing down the process. This is something that is not good for the Canadian economy, and the government of Canada will be taking a close look at how we can ensure that our regulatory processes are effective and deliver decisions in a reasonable amount of time.”

Bumped for update;

Unfortunately, there are environmental and other radical groups that would seek to block this opportunity to diversify our trade. Their goal is to stop any major project no matter what the cost to Canadian families in lost jobs and economic growth. No forestry. No mining. No oil. No gas. No more hydro-electric dams.
These groups threaten to hijack our regulatory system to achieve their radical ideological agenda. They seek to exploit any loophole they can find, stacking public hearings with bodies to ensure that delays kill good projects. They use funding from foreign special interest groups to undermine Canada’s national economic interest. They attract jet-setting celebrities with some of the largest personal carbon footprints in the world to lecture Canadians not to develop our natural resources. Finally, if all other avenues have failed, they will take a quintessential American approach: sue everyone and anyone to delay the project even further. They do this because they know it can work. It works because it helps them to achieve their ultimate objective: delay a project to the point it becomes economically unviable.

h/t Kevin

SDA gets results! Chiquita won’t join bunch boycotting Alberta oilsands products

“… please feel free to add your own comments.”
A Council Of Canadians Petition is about to go horribly wrong….
UPDATE: What have they to fear but SDA itself? The page can no longer be edited! Here’s where you can ask Maude Barlow why she’s afraid to forward the opinions of real Canadians.
National office
700-170 Laurier Avenue West
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Tel: (613) 233-2773 or 1-800-387-7177
Fax: (613) 233-6776
General information: inquiries@canadians.org
Regional contacts here.

Via Rigzone;

…there are more trucks rolling through Williston, N.D., now than in downtown Chicago.

h/t Adrian

Here it comes…

…during the UN climate change conference in Durban last week, Dominic Frongillo, a town councillor from Caroline, New York, which is atop the Marcellus Shale seam, estimated to contain 489 trillion cubic feet of extractable natural gas noted that “Before I left for Durban, Professor Howarth told me that “preventing unconventional gas extraction could be the number one thing we could do in the short term to control growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.”