Oil Sands Question and Response (OSQAR) Blog

Celebrity involvement in the energy debate: style or substance?

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If you saw media coverage of last year’s White House protests against the Keystone XL pipeline, you were more likely to learn that Lois Lane (Margot Kidder), the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) and the mermaid from Splash (Darryl Hannah) are all against it, than to get any deep insight into the project’s complex design and potential social, economic and environmental implications.

Oil sands: local or global concern?

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Suncor has always made it a point to talk with stakeholders, including environmental and social groups who are not always fans of the oil sands industry. Some of these meetings have involved tours of our facilities.

Need the goods on oil sands? Go to the mall

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Imagine that you’re an electronics retailer and a customer asks you where the chips in your line of smart phones comes from. Or you’re a clothier, and customers want to know who supplied the wool for the suits you are selling. Would you be lost for an answer?

International Stop The Tar Sands Day: Five suggestions for making it better

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Environmental activists are reportedly mobilizing for a second “International Stop the Tar Sands” day – see the Sierra Club Canada Blog.  Scheduled for June 18, the protest is being organized online with calls to various groups around the world to join in.

The boycott that never was

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You may have read in the press recently that four leading U.S. companies were planning to boycott fleet fuels made from Alberta oil sands.