5 Reasons Why Oil and Water Don’t Mix for Wildlife
We all know that oil and water don’t mix. But the stakes are especially high for wildlife when oil spills into the lakes, streams and rivers where wildlife live. If …
The Top 10 Quotes from Today’s Keystone XL Hearing
Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a long-anticipated hearing on the Keystone XL Pipeline. This hearing aimed to explore whether the pipeline is in our national interest and included …
Portland-Montreal Pipeline Trek Wrap Up
Guest post by Brett Chamberlin Monday marked the end of Kaity Thomson and Brett Chamberlin’s traverse of the Portland-Montreal Pipeline, a journey that brought them across Vermont, New Hampshire, and …
Portland-Montreal Pipeline Trek Day 4 – Visiting Area Businesses
Guest Post by Brett Chamberlin Rivers and forests aren’t the only places intersected by the Portland-Montreal Pipeline. The aging crude oil pipeline also passes under dozens of business properties. Hundreds …
Portland-Montreal Pipeline Trek Day 3 – Visiting the Site of…
Guest post by Brett Chamberlin With every step along our traverse of the Portland-Montreal Pipeline, one question weighs on our minds – what if crude oil were to spill from …
Portland-Montreal Pipeline Trek Day 2 – A View from Victory…
Guest Post by: Brett Chamberlin The first day of our weeklong trek along the Portland-Montreal Pipeline was unseasonably warm, despite the persistent rain. In Northern Vermont, the few remaining patches …
Struggling Moose Now Face a Toxic New Threat
Several moose populations are struggling in places where this majestic animal was once a common sight. In New Hampshire, the number of moose has dipped to fewer than 5,000 across …
Students Trek the Portland-Montreal Tar Sands Pipeline
Guest Post by Brett Chamberlin On Tuesday, NWF Campus Ecology Fellow Kaity Thomson began a week-long trek of the Portland-Montreal Pipeline, a WWII-era pipeline that Big Oil wants to retrofit to pump …
Fight to Keep Vermont Tar-Sands Free
Even as temperatures drop below freezing and we look ahead to another long winter, the fight to keep Vermont tar-sands-free is heating up. A group of volunteers, activists and community leaders from all corners of …
Starting a Movement in the Great Lakes
In 2010, the largest and costliest oil spill in our nation’s history tore into the Kalamazoo River and its wetlands. An oil pipeline owned and operated by Enbridge Energy, the …
