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Pipeline and Tanker Trouble

By: Natural Resources Defense Council | Anthony Swift, Nathan Lemphers, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Katie Terhune and Danielle Droitsch

Published: November 2011

The Canadian government is considering a proposal to build a pipeline under mountains and across rivers that could carry more than half a million barrels of raw tar sands crude oil (known as bitumen) daily across important salmon rivers, coastal rainforests, and sensitive marine waters. While the potentially devastating impacts of tar sands production are well documented, the increased risk and potential harm from transporting bitumen is less known.1,2 This report outlines the potential dangers of bitumen transportation and the risks of spills to the environment and the economy in a region that depends on healthy fisheries, lands, and waters.

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Canada’s Tar Sands: America’s #1 source of oil has dangerous consequences

By: International Boreal Conservation Campaign

Published: December 1969

Shows the connection between the oil sands and the US, and provides three specific examples of environmental degradation that comes with oil sands production: intensive emissions far higher than extracting traditional oil, deforestation of the Boreal Forest and loss of wildlife, and diminishing water quality from toxins for downstream aboriginal communities.

Tagged with: tar sands, boreal forest, oil, environmental degradation, aboriginal

The Oil Sands in Context: Part of the Solution, or Merely Prolonging the Problem?

By: CERES | Andrew Logan

Published: December 1969

An investor's perspective: aggressive oil sands development will not meaningfully improve energy security nor lower oil prices.

Tagged with: investor risk, oil prices, energy security, ceres

A Dirty Little Secret: Canada’s Global Warming Engine

By: Polaris Institute

Published: December 1969

A discussion of oil sands and global warming.

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Carbon storage in Canada’s Boreal forest- Map

By: International Boreal Conservation Campaign

Published: December 1969

Map of carbon storage in Canada's Boreal Forests.

Tagged with: carbon capture and storage, international boreal forest conservation campaign

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