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Say No to Tar Sands Pipeline
By: Natural Resources Defense Council | Susan Casey-Lefkowitz | Elizabeth Shope
Published: March 2010
Proposed Keystone XL Project Would Deliver Dirty Fuel and High Costs -- NRDC factsheet
Tagged with: pipeline, natural resources defense council, keystone xl, transcanada
Watered Down: Overcoming Federal Inaction on the Impact of Oil Sands Development to Water Resources
By: Water Matters
Published: December 2009
Watered Down highlights some of the most compelling testimony from the recent federal hearings by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. From its testimony, Watered Down derives the recommendation that the Government of Canada should live up to its legislative responsibility and substantially increase its role in protecting human health and the environment through the oversight and regulation of the oil sands industry's impact on fresh water resources and aquatic ecosystems.
Tagged with: public health, stephen harper, water quality, water matters
European Parliament Members Letter to Tar Sands Companies
By: European Parliament
Published: December 2009
A group of 11 MEPs, representing three political groups and seven countries, is today appealing to the leaders of four European oil companies to stop producing oil from Canadian tar sands, a process causing 2-3 times more pollution than the production of conventional oil.
Tagged with: copenhagen, bp, shell oil, statoil, total, european parliament
Energy Futures? Eni’s investments in tar sands and palm oil in the Congo basin
By: Heinrich Böll Foundation
Published: October 2009
Plans by oil company Eni to develop tar sands and oil palm in the Congo Basin risk irreversible damage to biodiversity, local communities and our climate, and break the company’s own guidelines, according to Congolese human rights organisations and their international partners.
Tagged with: canada, congo, rainforest, africa, friends of the earth
Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity
By: The Pembina Institute | Matthew Bramley
Published: October 2009
Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity is the first Canadian study of its kind to show regional impacts on employment and gross domestic product, and the first to comprehensively examine how Canada can meet a greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020 that goes beyond the federal government’s target.
Tagged with: pembina institute, canada, climate policy, greenhouse gases
Carbon Capture and Storage in the Alberta Oil Sands - A Dangerous Myth
By: The Co-operative Financial Services and WWF-UK
Published: October 2009
The study produced by The Co-operative Financial Services and WWF-UK debunks the idea, lauded by oil companies and the Canadian government, that carbon capture and storage (CCS) will significantly counter the high levels of greenhouse gases emitted in the production of oil from tar sands deposits in Alberta, Canada.
Tagged with: greenhouse gases, wwf-uk, carbon capture and storage
Does the Alberta Tar Sands Industry Pollute? The Scientific Evidence
By: Open Conservation Biology | Dr. Kevin Timoney | Peter Lee
Published: October 2009
The extent to which pollution from tar sands industrial activities in northeastern Alberta, Canada affects ecosystem and human health is a matter of growing concern that is exacerbated by uncertainty. In this paper we determine whether physical and ecological changes that result from tar sands industrial activities are detectable. We analyze a diverse set of environmental data on water and sediment chemistry, contaminants in wildlife, air emissions, pollution incidents, traditional ecological observations, human health, and landscape changes from the Athabasca Tar Sands region, Canada.
Tagged with: public health, environmental health, pollution, global forest watch
Comments to the White House regarding the EISA Section 933 Energy Security Report to Congress
By: Corporate Ethics International | Sierra Club | Greenpeace | Lorne Stockman | Kenny Bruno
Published: October 2009
The following comments are submitted as input to the content of the report the White House is required to submit to Congress under Section 933 of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). This memo focuses on the role of Canadian oil sands, traditionally known as tar sands, and suggests that the White House begin dismantling myths about the supposed key role of oil from tar sands to provide energy security. We argue that growth in tar sands imports cannot provide energy security to the United States.
Tagged with: greenpeace, sierra club, white house, congress, corporate ethics international, eisa
September 14th letter to President Obama regarding Prime Minister Harper’s visit
By: Climate Action Network
Published: October 2009
The Climate Action Network to President Obama expressing concerns that Prime Minister Harper wants to protect the oil sands industry from climate regulation.
Tagged with: whoisharper, climate action network
Financing of Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy by Canadian Banks
By: Prepared for Rainforest Action Network by Profundo economic research
Published: September 2009
The biggest impact that banks have on the climate is through their financing decisions. This report describes the impacts of bank financing on fossil fuel and clean energy development.
Tagged with: rainforest action network, canadian banks, renewable energy
