Robbie Picard from Oilsands Strong on his nationwide bus tour, telling everyday Canadians’ stories
On Friday's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Robbie Picard (@PicardRobbie on Twitter) from Oilsands Strong joined guest host Sheila Gunn Reid to discuss his tour across the country interviewing Canadians about oil and gas, as well as his new magazine focusing on oil and gas. https://rumble.com/v1hfkxv-robbie-picard-from-oil-sands-strong-is-going-on-a-national-tour.html "There's this new movement with conservatives that they feel that they have not been properly heard and represented in mainstream media, and I'm surprised it's coming from all walks of life. So it's nice to see that there's
Robbie Picard from Oil Sands Strong is going on a national tour
Rebel News' Sheila Gunn Reid was joined by Robbie Picard of Oil Sands Strong to discuss his new national tour and the most pressing issues facing Alberta's oil sands communities. Watch the video here. 00:00 Start00:55 Discussing the impact of progressive environmental policies03:12 Robbie Picard of Oil Sands Strong joins Sheila08:00 Humanizing the people and families working in the oil sands13:59 The deep pockets of the foreign environmental movement18:50 Discussing hypocritical celebrities (Jane Fonda)23:05 Discussing “Frack Nation” movie27:50 Plastic straws?37:35 Sheila discusses
What ‘transition’? Renewable energy is growing, but overall energy demand is growing faster
Key Points: The rise in the renewable energy that’s available is still lower than the rise in global energy demand overall.The shortfall between renewable energy supply and power demand will only widen as economies reopen and travel resumes, with demand already spiking to pre-pandemic levels.A “common ground solution” would be to use traditional fuels as a backup when renewables fail to carry through. The world wants to “transition” away from fossil fuels toward green energy, but the difficult reality is this: Dirty fuels
Oil and petroleum products explained
What is crude oil and what are petroleum products? We call crude oil and petroleum fossil fuels because they are mixtures of hydrocarbons that formed from the remains of animals and plants (diatoms) that lived millions of years ago in a marine environment before the existence of dinosaurs. Over millions of years, the remains of these animals and plants were covered by layers of sand, silt, and rock. Heat and pressure from these layers turned the remains into what we now call crude oil
Canadian Energy Centre (CEC)
Background The Canadian Energy Centre (CEC) is an Alberta provincial government corporation formed to promote the province’s fossil fuel industry, in part by fighting what it has described as “domestic and foreign-funded campaigns against Canada’s oil and gas industry.” At its launch on December 11, 2019, the CEC was referred to as the “Energy War Room.” 1 “The CEC is a provincial corporation under the financial administration act that will largely be funded by Alberta’s energy industry, through the new Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction
Fort McMurray residents defend oil industry amid visit from documentary crew
Fort McMurray residents defend oil industry amid visit from documentary crew A film crew from Europe is visiting Fort McMurray to get a sense of what life is like for people who live in the oil town. The filmmakers' presence isn't welcome by some residents, who are frustrated with how their industry and community have been portrayed in the media. Robbie Picard, founder of activist group Oilsands Strong, has helped about 15 documentary filmmakers over the last five years, setting up interviews and helicopter rides over the boreal forest. The
Ways the Oil & Gas Industry is Trying to Become More Sustainable and Green
When you think of the oil industry, environmentalism and sustainability are probably not the two words that come to mind. Nevertheless, we are living in an increasingly eco-friendly world, where both the residential as well as the commercial realm are adopting and implementing green practices in order to create a safer living and working environment, cut needless expenditure, and aid the preservation of Earth. With that in mind, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that modern oil companies recognize the need for a more