Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Showing posts with label COSIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COSIA. Show all posts

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Oil sands giants strike information-sharing pact

A dozen oil sands producers, including some of the world's biggest energy producers, have agreed to a broad new information-sharing agreement that sweeps away numerous intellectual property rights in the name of advancing environmental performance in north-eastern Alberta.

The group has formed “Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance,” or COSIA, to spread research and technology development in several key areas of environmental performance. Those areas include greenhouse gases, land disturbance, water, air emissions and management of tailings, the toxic effluent produced by oil sands mines.

It is an “ambitious and perhaps unprecedented sharing of intellectual property around environmental technologies,” said one person familiar with the plans.

The group's members, together, produce the vast majority of crude flowing from the oil sands. They are BP PLC (BP-N47.840.681.44%), Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNQ-T37.410.681.85%), Cenovus Energy Inc. (CVE-T38.950.491.27%), ConocoPhillips Co. (COP-N78.221.672.18%), Devon Corp. (DVN-N74.130.821.12%), Imperial Oil Ltd. (IMO-T47.420.130.27%), Nexen Inc. (NXY-T20.570.401.98%), Royal Dutch Shell plc, Statoil ASA, Suncor Energy Inc. (SU-T35.840.220.62%), Teck Resources Ltd. (TCK.B-T39.56-0.06-0.15%) and Total S.A.

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