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Energy integration agenda hits speed bump: Mexicans vote in favour of public ownership August 8, 2008 In a major rebuke to the Mexican government’s integrationist plans, on July 27th over 80 percent of voters rejected President Calderon’s plans for Mexico’s nationalized energy sector. This vote which brought out large numbers of people is significant. It demonstrates a clear opposition to the market-based energy integration between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada being pursued by the North American Energy Working Group (NAEWG) under the auspices of the secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). (more...) What’s good for U.S. energy security is good for the SPP August 1, 2008 A recent U.S. statement confirms the ongoing push for greater North American energy integration that leaves Canada wide open for the worst of an energy gold rush. In addressing the Subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in Washington DC, Daniel Sullivan (Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs) calls for more energy integration and dependence on market-based solutions in the face of rising oil and gas prices and the havoc this is wreaking on the U.S. economy. (more...) Canadians should hope for an Obama presidency and the reopening of NAFTA June 23, 2008 John McCain's visit to Canada on Friday was a preview of just how important the issue of renegotiating the North American free-trade agreement will be in this fall's U.S. presidential election. The prospect of a Barack Obama presidency has sparked a lot of "will he or won't he" worry in Canada. You can feel the fear of the business-as-usual crowd trying to reassure themselves that Mr. Obama won't really reopen NAFTA. (more...) Canadians Reject McCain's NAFTA Plea - Continental Movement for Renegotiation Grows June 20, 2008 On Friday, June 20, the Council of Canadians held a mock press conference and protest outside Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier, where Republican Senator John McCain spoke to an elite audience of Canadian corporate executives about the benefits of NAFTA. (more...) North American Forum 2008 agenda released June 19, 2008 Teresa Healy, a researcher with the Canadian Labour Congress, has acquired the agenda for the 2008 North American Forum (NAF), which took place in Washington, D.C. this week, bringing together 75 personally invited policymakers and business leaders to discuss North American integration behind closed doors. (more...) The Future of Mexico's Oil: Social action to stop the energy grab! June 17, 2008 In Mexico, as in the U.S. and Canada, citizens and democrats wish to “close the revolving door between the executive branch and K street (corporate) lobbying …” Mexicans are currently mobilizing to stop the deeply undemocratic practice of lobbyists [writing] national policies. (more...) Canadian ambassador to address fourth annual North American Forum in Washington June 17, 2008 Canada’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, will address the secretive invite-only North American Forum gathering today (June 17, 8:30 a.m.), according to a press release from the World Affairs Council forwarded to Integrate This! by Teresa Healy of the Canadian Labour Congress. (more...) Alberta can’t handle tar sands expansion, says new report June 16, 2008 A new report out of Alberta today says the province “should not approve more oilsands upgraders near Edmonton until the province has a solid plan to limit the huge volume of fresh water they will use and to better manage the pollution they will produce,” according to CTV. (more...) Does Ignatieff support a Canadian energy strategy? June 2, 2008 In his Globe and Mail column today, Lawrence Martin asks how much sense it makes that “energy-abundant” Canada imports 40 per cent of its oil from foreign markets. He also reports that Liberal Michael Ignatieff is wondering the same thing. (more...) Life, Liberty, Water: An article in Yes! Magazine by Maude Barlow May 28, 2008 As climate change and worldwide shortages loom, will people fight over water or join together to protect it? A global water justice movement is demanding a change in international law to settle once and for all the question of who controls water. (more...) May 8, 2008 The Natural Resources Defense Council sent a letter to U.S. Senators this week urging them to oppose amendments to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Bill that would repeal a major environmental initiative to ban the purchase of dirty fuel from sources like Alberta’s tar sands. (more...) The SPP keeps U.S. tanks full – an op-ed by the Council of Canadian May 7, 2008 The following op-ed by Brent Patterson, director of campaigns and organizing with the Council of Canadians, appeared in today’s Windsor Star: (more...) Dead birds and water shortages in boomtown Alberta May 2, 2008 By now the whole world knows about the 500 ducks that died after landing in one of Syncrude’s toxic tailing ponds in Northern Alberta. The tragedy occurred just after the province had put aside $25 million in public relations cash to convince the White House that tar sands crude was environmentally friendly. (more...) Nothing new from the Disaster Summit but dangerous SPP initiatives live on April 29, 2008 The media and business consensus following last week’s Security and Prosperity Partnership summit in New Orleans is that the trilateral meeting didn’t produce anything significant. While this is partly correct – no new initiatives were announced – the ones we’re stuck with are bad enough. And while we learned a few new things about the SPP’s progress since Montebello, very few of the details ended up in the news. (more...) Harper out of batteries on energy issues April 24, 2008 At the end of this week’s Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit in New Orleans, Prime Minister Harper said that, "Canada really is confident that the next President will also understand the importance of NAFTA, and the importance of the commercial relationship between the United States and Canada.” (more...) The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), Round Four April 16, 2008 As the NAFTA leaders and their big business counterparts gather in New Orleans a few days from now for the fourth North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit, it is worth reflecting on its role in North American integration. (more...) CEP files official complaint against “agents provocateurs” in Montebello April 16, 2008 Dave Coles, the CEP president who unmasked a police officer posing as a rock-wielding protestor at Montebello last August, has filed an official complaint with the Police Ethics Commissioner about the use of agents provocateurs by the Sureté de Québéc. (more...) Is the tar sands’ water supply protected by NAFTA? April 16, 2008 Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, is warning Albertans that the government “could be forced to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to foreign-owned oilsands companies under NAFTA if a drought forced the province to ration water,” according to an article in the Edmonton Journal. (more...) NACC member Chevron moves in on Mexico’s public oil and gas sector April 10, 2008 Chevron Corp, a member of the North American Competitiveness Council, has “submitted proposals to tap oil and natural-gas reserves in Mexico amid declining output from the second-biggest crude-producing nation in the Western Hemisphere,” according to Bloomberg this week. (more...)
April 7, 2008 There appears to be an elite consensus forming around a C.D. Howe Institute proposal to ditch the trilateral SPP model for a more meaningful bilateral trade agreement with the United States. (more...)
March 14, 2008 Common Frontiers has revised several fact sheets on ‘free trade’ to help cut through the spin and clutter around the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) – a ‘next generation’ trade deal involving Canada, Mexico and the United States. (more...)
February 28, 2008 Canada hit the 1-billion-barrel mark this year, although it’s not necessarily a record we should be proud of. (more...)
February 26, 2008 Citizens, environmental groups, labour groups, First Nations communities, social justice and academic groups have all been saying there should be no new approvals in tar sands development. Big oil companies have now joined this call. So why aren’t politicians listening? (more...)
February 21, 2008 An article in La Jornada reports that the next Security and Prosperity Partnership ministerial meeting will take place February 27 and 28 in Los Cabos, Mexico. This is a pre-New Orleans meeting of SPP ministers from Mexico, Canada and the United States to set an agenda for the next full summit, taking place April 21 and 22. (more...)
February 15, 2008 Environmental Defence, a national organization that works with citizens, decision-makers and businesses on environmental issues, released a report today in Ottawa slamming the federal government for its inaction and indifference to Canadian laws designed to protect our health, safety and environment from large-scale industrial projects. (more...) February 13, 2008 Public pressure is forcing governments to get serious about environmental protection. One area of particular concern is the global economy’s reliance on dirty fossil fuels – a primary source of greenhouse gas emissions. With the phenomenon of “peak oil” looming in our near future, the race is on for cheap energy alternatives. (more...)
February 11, 2008 Relying on the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" google news alert for updates is kind of like fishing. Sometimes you hook a prize-winner, like this article on the recent Mexican anti-NAFTA protests by Katie Kohlstedt, or a recent news hit on the NDP's anti-SPP tour out of the University of Calgary's Gauntlet magazine. (more...)
January 28, 2008 Last Friday, four North American civil society networks -- Quixote Center (USA), Common Frontiers (Canada), Red Mexicana de Acción frente al Libre Comercio (Mexico), and Réseau québécois sur l’Intégration continentale (Quebec) -- released a statement called, "NAFTA must be renegotiated" at a press conference in Mexico City. (more...)
January 24, 2008 Canadians experience long, cold winter months. As the snow starts to fly, our thoughts turn to staying warm. To do that, we need energy to heat our homes. But right now, Canada does not have a national energy strategy that addresses where our energy comes from, where it is going, or the high price of environmental devastation that can come with producing it. (more...)
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