Category Archives: Tar Sands

Mark Ruffalo Supports the Tar Sands Action

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Tar Sands ActionActor Mark Ruffalo, who has been an outspoken activist on fracking in his home state of New York and across the country, is lending his support to the Tar Sands Action in Washington, DC this August. To join the action, click here to sign up.Nearly 2,000 people are already registered to take part in an ongoing sit-in at the White House this August 20 – Sep 3 to pressure President ... [click title to continue]

A Tar Sands Partnership Agreement in the Making?

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By Macdonald StainsbyCanadian Dimension August 1st 2011Campaigns against tar sands production have grown rapidly over the last four years. From the relative obscurity in Alberta to an international lightning rod for people trying to address all manner of concerns from indigenous and community self-determination to peak oil and climate change – criticisms of the largest industrial project in human ... [click title to continue]

Tar Sands Protest in DC

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Elizabeth RandolphPortsideJuly 23, 2011On August 20, 2011, we will begin our demonstration in front of the White House, practicing peaceful civil disobedience to oppose to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This is a challenge.We're already on our way to making this the largest collective act of civil disobedience in the history of the American climate movement - over 1,000 people have signed up to ... [click title to continue]

Cooking up a National Energy Strategy in Kananaskis

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Will ministers let oil industry dictate the recipe? And thumb their nose at the world? By Matt Price  TheTyee.ca July 16, 2011 Here's a puzzler for you:Why are both the oil industry and the Alberta Government, who usually use the word "Ottawa" as an insult, suddenly calling for a national energy strategy? The provincial and federal energy ministers gather today in Kananaskis, Alberta, and on ... [click title to continue]

The Worst Environmental Disaster in the World, the Canadian Tar Sands

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The Truth Report 101July 4, 2011The Canadian tar sands are probably the worst environment disaster in the World today. The area of the tar sands takes up a territory of a small country and generates more yearly green house gases than the entire country of Switzerland. But the real damage is being done in the refining process. To get one barrel of oil out of the tar sands, the refining process creates ... [click title to continue]

International Stop the Tar Sands Day: A guide to the disaster

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By Michelle MechRabble.ca June 17, 2011Info on Tar Sands Day HERE. For many Canadians, the image of the oil sands as a boost to the economy, providing a bounty of jobs and ensuring a continuing supply of fossil fuel, overshadows anything they may hear about its environmental and human impacts.This image is perpetuated by the Alberta and Canadian governments and by most of the oil sands industry, who ... [click title to continue]

New report shows total oil sands emissions close to double widely used figures

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Green Party of Canada8 June 2011 OTTAWA - A new comprehensive report by an independent researcher, Michelle Mech, is garnering attention as it shows that total production-related greenhouse gas emissions from the Alberta oil sands are close to double the National Inventory Report figure for 2008, which is often loosely misinterpreted as representing the total emissions from oil sands production. ... [click title to continue]

Nova Scotia’s Tar Sands

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“Shale gas is the fossil fuel industry’s latest suicide mission”By Hillary Bain LindsayThe DominionJune 2, 2011 Protesters gather outside the Nova Scotia legislature in Halifax HALIFAX—After years of learning about climate change and oil and gas development in other parts of the world, Michael Jensen was upset, but not surprised, to learn that natural gas exploration may be coming to his ... [click title to continue]

Tories left oilsands data out of UN report

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Numbers indicate rise in annual pollution By MIKE DE SOUZAOttawa CitizenMay 29, 2011 8:01 PM The federal government has acknowledged it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in annual pollution from Canada’s oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United Nations.The numbers, uncovered by Postmedia News, ... [click title to continue]