"Satya Das is no conspiracy theorist. He does not blame the government’s oil sands approach, or the province’s explosive economic growth and world’s second-lowest oil royalties, on an industrial-political establishment. That charge he leaves to radical environmental groups. Instead, he blames timidity among politicians."

Read Patrycja Romanowska's full interview with Satya here.

Satya speaks with Publisher and Editor of See Magazine, Jeff Holubitsky, on the reception of Green Oil by the Toronto Star and the need to recoup the investment from the Alberta oil sands to become a world leader in education and technology like Texas, whose universities have won more Nobel Peace Prizes than Oxford and Harvard.

 

The Alberta oil sands ability to be part of the clean energy future is garnering momentum  in Eastern Canada as Satya was in Montreal and Ottawa recently where he conducted  interviews with Embassy Magazine, CTV News Channel, A Mornings Ottawa and Dr. Allan Jones. Watch for links to all the coverage as it becomes available here.

Published in Vancouver's November 17th, 2009 The Province, Satya explains why turning away from the oil sands due to past mismanagement and negative environmental impact would be wrong as Canadians have an obligation to assume the leadership role in their responsible development.

While in Ottawa and Montreal this week, Satya had the opportunity to meet with former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and discuss the key themes of Green Oil:Clean Energy for the 21st Century, and personally give him a copy of the book.

Read Vue Magazine's full interview with Satya on his hopes for improved management of the oil sands here.

Frédéric Arnould's report talks to all sides in the debate over continued development of the oil sands from Greenpeace to the the oil industry and also Satya Das.

An excerpt from Green Oil published in the Toronto Star detailing the clean energy success of Evan Chrapko, who started Highmark Renewables with his brother Shane and family friends Bern and Mike Kotelko.

Satya discusses the concept of a natural resource severance tax and his awareness that there could be a backlash to the idea by some Albertans, with Toronto Star Energy and Technology columnist, Tyler Hamilton.

"So what if Alberta's back gets up? Who cares? Are you on the right side of history or aren't you?" Das says. "I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Believe it or not, a lot of Albertans think this way."

Satya discusses with Rob Breakenridge on October 19th, 2009 how Albertans need to take the lead on believing and making the oil sands part of a green future.

"We have to get involved instead of sitting and waiting for things to happen, we have to figure out the state of our environmental development."

"Its not only energy security for the democratic world, its innovation and ingenuity a lot of the advances that we have made in the oilsands are because of the knowledge economy...we have to shed the Canadian bronze medal mentality.

Done the morning of the Literacy Alberta Green Oil book launch held in Calgary at winebar Kensignton on  October 17th, 2009. Satya responded to Peter's question the lag time between succesful CCS and cleaning up the oil sands.

"Its not a magic bullet solution, we have too look at everything we can do," Satya explained. 

"Albertans need to understand that they own the resource and the government is just the managers they hired and the oil companies are the tenants and the lease holders on the land Albertan's own. Green Oil is really an owner's manual for Albertans," he added.

Das says we have the lowest government resource take of any resource owning country, including dictatorships, with no premium for our status as a democracy. Adding Canada has the largest hydrocarbon resource in the world and a status as a global enerygy superpower, it is time we take responsibility.