Publications
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Onshore Oil Disasters
By: National Wildlife Federation
Published: August 2010
Fact sheet from the National Wildlife Federation discussing why tar sands pipelines are dirty and dangerous, despite the industries PR tactics to try and prove otherwise.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline safety, oil spills
What is the highest environmental impact oil?
By: Pembina Institute
Published: May 2010
Oil sands impacts: Mining vs. In Situ
Tagged with: pembina institute, in situ, mining
Tar Sands Invasion—Fact Sheet
By: Corporate Ethics International | EARTHWORKS | Natural Resources Defense Council | Sierra Club | Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Kate Colarulli, Bruce Baizel
Published: May 2010
A companion to the full report, the Tar Sands Invasion fact sheet explains in short how dirty and expensive oil threatens America's new energy economy.
Tagged with: climate change, pipeline, sierra club, natural resources defense council, corporate ethics international, oil demand, earthworks
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, keystone xl, transcanada, natural resources defense council
Don’t Support Dirty Fuels: Oil shale and tar sands are not America’s energy answer
By: Natural Resources Defense Council
Published: February 2009
Facts about tar sands, oil shale, and liquid coal.
Tagged with: natural resources defense council, tar sands, liquid coal, oil shale
La Fievre des Sables Bitumineux
By: Pembina Institute
Published: November 2008
Tagged with: pembina institute
Map of tar sands oil refineries and pipelines in the United States
By: EARTHWORKS
Published: August 2008
Tagged with: earthworks, oil refinery, no dirty energy
Fact or Fiction: Oil Sands Reclamation
By: Pembina Institute
Published: May 2008
Fact or Fiction: Oil Sands Reclamation is a critical review of current policies and practices governing oil sands reclamation. The researchers found woefully inadequate reclamation progress, astonishing rates of toxic tailings creation and no proven way to clean them up. After 41 years of oil sands mining operations in northern Alberta only 0.2% or one square kilometer of disturbed land is certified as reclaimed. The researchers also found that the security deposits made by companies to guarantee reclamation may be inadequate, forcing Canadians to foot the bill for reclaiming vast areas of mined and disturbed boreal forest.
Tagged with: alberta, pembina institute, tailings
Oil Sands Fever: the Environmental Implications of Canada’s Oil Sands Rush
By: Pembina Institute
Published: August 2006
This fact sheet provides an overview of key facts and figures from The Pembina Institute's book Oil Sands Fever: The Environmental Implications of Canada's Oil Sands Rush. The book examines the environmental effects of oil sands mining in northern Alberta. From toxic tailings ponds that already cover 130 square kilometres, to fresh water use and the direct impacts of digging 100 metre open pit mines over thousands of square kilometres of boreal forest, the report details the environmental problems and other challenges that oil sands mining poses to northern Alberta.
Tagged with: pembina institute, tailings, environment
Strip mining for oil in endangered forests
By: Natural Resources Defense Council
Published: July 2006
Big oil interests are scraping away hundreds of thousands of acres in North America’s Boreal forest to produce tar sands oil, and in the process consuming large amounts of natural gas and generating three times as much global warming pollution as conventional crude oil production. Greater efficiency and renewable fuels are far better, cleaner ways to meet our energy
Tagged with: natural resources defense council, boreal forest, strip mining
