U.S. rules polar bears are threatened
Posted: May 15, 2008Mia Rabson, May 15, Winnipeg Free Press -- The United States has joined Manitoba in listing polar...Read More
Greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands production are three times those of conventional oil and gas production [currently tar sands production emits 27 megatonnes per annum and is expected to rise to 108-126 megatonnes by 2015]. Thus, the tar sands are now poised to become Canada’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gas, compounding this country’s contribution to global warming. Additionally, tar sands production is expected to multiply as much as four to five times by the year 2015 to meet growing demands in the U.S. As a consequence, conservative estimates show that greenhouse gas emissions from the tar sands could well leap from 27 to 126 million tonnes by 2015.
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Global Warming Articles
Mia Rabson, May 15, Winnipeg Free Press -- The United States has joined Manitoba in listing polar...Read More
Kearl Lake: Round 2; Companies in new regulatory realm
Posted: May 15, 2008Deborah Yedlin, May 15, 2008, Calgary Herald -- Bruce March, the (relatively) new chief executive...Read More
Should the U.S. Invest In Tar Sands? Congress Considers Purchasing Fuel From the "Most Destructive Project on Earth"
Posted: May 12, 2008Dan Shapley, May 8, 2008, The Daily Green -- A year ago, Congress agreed that the federal...Read More
Green groups urge upholding U.S. tar sands fuel ban; Letter to Congress pleads with Senate to reject Canadian movement to remove
Posted: May 9, 2008Martin Mittelstaedt, May 8, 2008, Globe and Mail -- A who's who of major U.S. and Canadian...Read More
Canada could make Kyoto strides with carbon capture
Posted: May 9, 2008Barbara Yaffe, May 9, 2008, Vancouver Sun -- Canada has been talking fast but moving slowly to...Read More
CANADA: Oil sands emissions take back seat to job concerns, Alberta officials say
Posted: May 7, 2008Debra Kahn, ClimateWire reporter -- Job security and fuel production trump global warming concerns...Read More
Susan Riley . Waiting for Churchill
Posted: May 5, 2008Susan Riley, May 2, 2008, The Ottawa Citizen -- Y ou can already foresee what could become a key...Read More
U.S. protesters take aim at Alberta oilsands
Posted: April 30, 2008Jeremy Loome, April 30, 2008, Edmonton Sun -- Alberta's oilsands came under fire in Washington,...Read More
Timeline for Irreversible Climate Change
Posted: April 23, 2008James Hansen, April 22, 2008, YaleGlobal Online -- Fifty years ago, Yankee Stadium had about 70,000...Read More
Rain doesn't halt BP protest
Posted: April 22, 2008Erik Potter, April 20, 2008, Post-Tribune staff -- Mother Earth was feeling a little crabby on...Read More
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Demand Justice for the People of Fort Chipewyan!!!
Rally at the Alberta Legislature, March 1st, 1:00 pm
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EDUCATIONAL ON THE TAR SANDS
What do you know about the largest industrial project in human history? TUESDAY DECEMBER 18TH AT 6:30 PM, ROOM 2270, SFU HARBOUR CENTRE, 515 WEST HASTINGS
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Stupid to the Last Drop, November 19th 6:30-8:30pm
Ottawa Public Library Autitorium, 120 Metcalfe St. with investigative journalist William Marsden, and a panel including Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network - Read more
'HIGH AND DRY: THE ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF ALBERTA OIL SANDS DEVELOPMENT, November 16th 7:15-9PM
University of Toronto Pharmacy Building, Room B150, 144 College Street. With Tony Clarke, Director of the Polaris Institute - Read more
Pumped up: How Canada subsidizes fossil fuels at the expense of green alternatives KAIROS released a report on federal government subsidies to the oil and gas sector, including the tar sands.
Federal Government Missing in Action on Most Destructive Project on Earth – the Tar Sands [February 2008] A report from Environmental Defence highlighting the downstream effects of tar sands development. Read More
A Town's Toxic Questions - Fort Chipewyan they are getting cancer at an alarming rate, and hired their own expert to find out if their food is toxic. We take you to a town that's living in fear - and ask the provincial environment ministry what it's doing about it. Watch it here
Toxic Alberta series by VBS television Last winter VBS decided to do a story on the Oil Sands of Alberta. So far no American media outlet had comprehensively covered it and even the local press's approach has left a lot to be desired. VBS - Toxic Alberta
Taming the Tempest: A report from the Parkland Institute proposing "An Alternate Development Strategy for Alberta" Read more
Under-Mining the Environment A report by the Pembina Institute and WWF-Canada comparative assessment of different mining projects in the Alberta tars sands. Read more
Driving It Home; Choosing the Right Path for Fueling North America's Transportation Future A report by NRDC, Pembina Insitute and Western Resource Advocates. Read more