Please and Thank You.: In the news: Oil and Whore's

First day of school: Done. No. I didn’t panic. And Yes. It went just fine. My classes are all pretty cool, I chose wisely. So who knows, faithful follower, you may just learn something over the next few months.
Now I’m back in the office setting, counting the minutes, counting the hours, until I get to go to Calgary for the weekend. I was just settling into the groove of Edmonton and I’m off again. I did say I had the travel itch… I guess Calgary kinda counts.

In the meantime… let the learning continue:

Did you know that Suncor (a Canadian integrated energy company in Calgary, Alberta, specializing in the production of synthetic crude from oil sands) is facing environmental charges for a third time?

By Hanneke Brooymans, edmontonjournal.com September 10, 2010 6:33 AM

“EDMONTON - Suncor is facing environmental charges for the third time in just over two years. This time around the oilsands company faces nine charges because it allegedly failed to comply with its Water Act licence and approval and for providing misleading information to Alberta Environment about stormwater run-off at its Voyageur upgrader site.

In 2008, the company also faced a charge for failing to provide information to Alberta Environment about a contravention.

It's not surprising that Alberta Environment would aggressively pursue charges against a company that failed to provide it with information, which is a cornerstone of their compliance system, said Cindy Chiasson, executive director of the Environmental Law Centre.
"Generally speaking, pieces around timely reporting, failing to report and validity of information, that's the kind of thing Alberta Environment tends to pursue pretty vigorously because their system all ties around industry self-monitoring and self-reporting," she said. "So if you've got sliding there, then to some extent the system all falls apart."

Chiasson said Alberta Environment's track record shows that when multiple charges are laid they will ensure that if there is a plea bargain that there are guilty pleas on the company's failure to report.

Suncor says that in both cases there were fairly complex regulatory processes in play. Spokesman Brad Bellows said they believed they were in compliance with the regulations at the time therefore did not provide the regulator with a report saying they were not in compliance. "Our belief was that we were on side."

Their first court appearance on the current charges is set for Nov. 3 in Fort McMurray.”

Hmm…. Big business going down?

I suppose we’ll learn more as the semester progresses.

hey, don’t worry I’ll be back with more bullshit after the weekend… the drama lives on, even though the learning continues.

Read more:

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Suncor+faces+environmental+charge+third+time/3502243/story.html#ixzz0z8PslAYe

Oh and here's another bad guy: