The tar sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Photo credit: Kris Krug via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen With the recent devastating Fort McMurray forest fires, the controversy surrounding the tar sands industry has been […]
Flanked by Vice President (L) Joe Biden and Secretary of Sate John Kerry (R), Obama rejects the Keystone XL pipeline. Photo credit: Reuters / Jonathan Ernst. By Anders Lorenzen It has been […]
Canada has a new prime minister in Justin Trudeau. What will that mean for climate change and energy policies? Photo credit: Reuters / Chris Wattie. By Anders Lorenzen Canada has a […]
Photo credit: Kris Krug. By guest contributor Derek Leahy It may come as a surprise to some that Alberta pioneered carbon pricing — not just in Canada, but for all of North […]
Fort McMurray in the Alberta tar sands. Photo credit: Kris Krug via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen The people of Alberta, which is home to the tar sands and one of the […]
Obama has vetoed a bill seeking to speed up the Keystone XL approval process. Photo credit: Matt Wansley via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen US President Barack Obama, has vetoed a bill that […]
By guest contributor Sarah Hay Last month, in part one of this interview with Suzanne Dhaliwal co-founder UK Tar Sands Network, she described what it was like to visit the tar sands […]
By guest contributor Sarah Hay Wednesday this week, three events happened that affect all of us. At 8am, a group from five organisations met to show peaceful presence outside the venue for […]
By guest contributor Derek Leahy For five long years the federal government and the oil industry have lobbied against the European Union labeling oilsands (also called tar sands) bitumen as ‘dirty oil’ […]
Photo credit: Jim Dougherty. By Anders Lorenzen In an extra driving force to pressure Obama to outright reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a coalition calling themselves the Cowboy and Indian Alliance […]
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