As we await the President’s anticipated rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, new information on iconic wood bison further demonstrates how tar sands oil harms wildlife every step of the way. In … Read more
Alberta
Five Things to Know about the Tar Sands Threat to American Birds
Tar sands—a mixture of sand, clay and water from which a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum, called bitumen, can be extracted—underlie more than 54,000 square miles of northeastern … Read more
Tar Sands Exposed Tour Shows Human, Environmental Cost of Dirty Fuel
The contrast of images is stark, startling. Scenes of majestic beauty untouched by the hands of people and scraped earth scraped made toxic and lifeless. Images of the earth’s bounty; … Read more
Alberta places wildlife at further risk with tar sands wetlands exemption
The continuing wildlife crisis in Canada’s boreal forest just got worst as the Alberta government, after 8 years of delays, released a wetlands policy that gives 195 destructive tar sands … Read more
Scratch and Sniff Tar Sands
When I walked into the Oil Sands Discovery Centre a day after participating in the Tar Sands Healing Walk in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, the first thing I noticed was … Read more
Need to Avoid Oil Spill Danger? Draw Your Own Fake Map!
A major oil industry player is in hot water again, this time for an advertisement that appears to re-write the geography books. Enbridge Incorporated, which is at the center of … Read more
Enbridge, Inc.: Spilling Oil All The Way To The Bank
A third major oil spill in a month has Alberta’s citizens on edge. Could these accidents be in store for New England next? Read more
Another Major Oil Spill in Alberta: Regrets, Pollution, and Big Money Collide Again
There’s a point when accidents start getting so routine that they stop being “accidents” and become something else entirely. A second major oil spill in Alberta has put communities and wildlife at risk, but the calls for dangerous tar sands pipelines remain as strong as ever. Read more
Alberta Oil Spill: 924,000 Gallons and Rising
A major oil pipeline spill in Alberta, Canada has dealt another painful blow in the fight against reckless development. Read more
Dogs Among Latest Victims of Tar Sands Poison
One day last February, a man opened the front door of his cabin in Alberta, Canada, to find his dog looking quite ill. Seeing that two of his other dogs … Read more