Tag: Alberta
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No Keystone pipeline? No problem, Alberta will just go north to the Arctic Ocean
Alternatives to the Keystone line are popping up all over Canada.
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What do Canadians think of Keystone XL and tar sands?
The climate movement is growing in the US, but what do Canadians think of their role in exacerbating climate change?
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It's Time To Nuke the Tar Sands! (Again)
Toshiba is proposing to boil the oil with their new 4S reactor.
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Fort McMurray Airport Is The Largest Cross Laminated Timber Building In North America
The European technology makes bits of wood into structural elements big enough for an airport
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Alberta Tar Sands To Be Turned Into New Lakes District
Fishing and swimming and boating, it all sounds so bucolic and wonderful. Can't wait!
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Greenpeace Ad Highlighting Oil Spills Rejected By Billboard Company Owned By Car Dealer
Oil industry ads comparing the tar sands to yogurt, on the other hand, are just fine.
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Lessons for the USA in Alberta Election: People Don't Like Extremism, Even In Conservative Territory
Cities, Centrists and undecideds run from party tainted by homophobia, racism and climate skepticism
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Canadian Government On Attack: Tar Sands Pipeline Debate Heats Up
The Canadian government is pushing Northern Gateway, the "plan B" to Keystone XL, and attacking the country's environmental groups in the process.
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ForestEthics Declared "Enemy of the People of Canada" for Criticism of Oil Sands Projects
The claim is made by a young activist, who was fired from ForestEthics after going public with it.
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How Tar Sands Will Devastate Agriculture, Increase Hunger in Africa
An eye-opening study shows the effects that full development of Canada's tar sands would have on global food production.
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Canada's Minister of Natural Resources Calls Anti-pipeline Protesters Radicals Supported by "Jet-Setting Celebrities"
There are a number of mixed messages here, and none of them are good for the future of the Environment or for international relations
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NASA Satellite Images: Tar Sands in 1984 and Tar Sands Now
How much has the oil sands industry grown over the last few decades?
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Canadian Government Goes Bananas Over Chiquita's Pledge To Avoid Tar Sands Oil
Another demonstration of how the Canadian government doesn't regulate the oil industry, it sleeps with it.
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Archbishop Tutu, Other African Leaders Call on Canada to Fight Global Warming, Not Boost Tar Sands
Once considered a leader on global issues, Canada is a pariah at Durban
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The Alternative To Keystone XL Pipeline: Ship The Oil By Rail
Killing the pipeline doesn't kill the oil sands, and it doesn't stop demand.
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Bill McKibben Versus The Terrifying Tar Sands (Podcast)
When renowned NASA climatologist James Hansen came on the podcast recently, he said some chilling words: if we burn the oil in the Canadian tar sands "it's essentially game over for the climate." The murky oil sands of Canada are the largest known
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Canadian Government Fires Environment Ministry Scientists and Meteorologists, Hires Oil Lobbyists
I just love the juxtaposition of these two stories in today's newspapers; in The Star, we learn that the Environment Ministry is cutting 700 Meteorologists, scientists, chemists and engineers, or
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Hats For Kate Demonstrate The Best of Canada Today
Images credit Environmental Defence Emma usually covers the fashion beat, but Will and Kate are visiting Canada, and Environmental Defence is hitting the runways with a series of hats that describe Canada today, a very different place from when Chuck
