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The Other Oil Disaster: Cancer and Canada’s Tar Sands
By Switchboard Blog | Gina Solomon
Monday, May 03, 2010
Tar sands tailing pond contaminants are leaching into the Athabasca River, affecting the small community of Fort Chipewyan. The town has been been suffering for more than ten years from high rates of cancer.
Tagged with: tar sands, fort chipewyan, health, athabasca river
Optimism versus reality in peak oil media battle
By Peak Generation Blog | Matthew Wild
Sunday, May 02, 2010
NRDC: Europeans say no to tar sands oil
By Alan Septoff
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
NRDC's Susan Casey-Lefkowitz blogs that on April 20th members of the European Parliament sent a letter to the European Commission protesting the tar sands. This is the second such letter, this time focusing on transportation fuels (ala California's low-carbon fuel standard).
Tagged with: natural resources defense council, low carbon fuel standard, european parliament, european commission
Sierra Club: Tar sands pipeline review is flawed
By Sierra Club | Bruce Nilles
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Bruce Nilles of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign castigates the State Department for not including global warming impacts it the environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in a blog post excerpted here:
Tagged with: pipeline, keystone xl, transcanada, sierra club, state department
Oil sands exec threatens Mikisew Cree
By George Poitras
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Because of [our] very successful campaign in the UK, one of the oil companies executives flew to Fort Chipewyan and attempted to force the hand of my First Nation to "silence or terminate" my employment with the Mikisew because they didn't like that I travelled internationally, on Mikisew time, and that by doing so I generated so much negative publicity on the tarsands industry.
Tagged with: first nations, george poitras, mikisew cree, intimidation
FACT or FICTION: Tar sands oil companies defend their projects against the Avatar attack
By Morey Burnham
Thursday, March 11, 2010
From Air Hugger: blogging for clean air and healthy environments
James Cameron may not have won the Academy Award for Best Picture or Best Director, but he walked away from the Oscars with the highest accolades from many of the world’s leading environmental and human rights campaigners.
Tagged with: avatar, james cameron, oscars
RBC is bankrolling the tar sands: Dogwood/RAN
By Alan Septoff
Friday, March 05, 2010
The Dogwood Initiative and Rainforest Action Network have targeted the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) -- the #1 financier of oil sands development. On March 3rd, 2010 Dogwood staff and Victoria residents showed up at the Royal Bank of Canada's Victoria headquarters to draw attention to RBC's role as Canada's largest financier of dirty fuels, including the tar sands. After the jump: more info including a video of the demonstration.
Tagged with: rainforest action network, dogwood initiative, rbc
It’s only like adding 20 million cars to the roads, eh? : NRDC
By Alan Septoff
Friday, March 05, 2010
NRDC's Elizabeth Shope puts to rest big oil's canard that tar sands oil greenhouse gas emissions are almost equivalent to conventional oil's.
Tagged with: greenhouse gases, natural resources defense council
A champion goalie urges Canada to make a key stop
By Alan Septoff
Friday, February 26, 2010
Mike Richter, goalie for the New York Rangers when they won the Stanley Cup and three-time Olympian, urges the Canadian government to make a critical stop: stop the development of the oil sands.
Tagged with: olympics, love winter, vancouver, mike richter, new york rangers, hockey
RAN Gets To Maybe With RBC
By Morey Burnham
Friday, February 19, 2010
From the Rainforest Action Network's blog, Understory: "After a year of campaigning, this afternoon RBC and RAN finally sat opposite the same table to talk tar sands."
Tagged with: rainforest action network, rbc
