Publications
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
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
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
Just Visiting: Stephen Harper’s Climate Insincerity
By: Environmental Defence | Matt Price
Published: September 2009
The report, released in advance of Prime Minister Harper's visit to the White House in September 2009, demonstrates the gulf between him and President Obama on climate change.
Tagged with: climate change, whoisharper, obama, stephen harper
Alberta tar sands a major climate and economic threat: Greenpeace report
By: Greenpeace | Andrew Nikiforuk
Published: September 2009
Edmonton, Canada — A new Greenpeace report details how the world’s addiction to oil is increasing the threat the Alberta tar sands pose to the global climate.
Tagged with: climate change, whoisharper, greenpeace, greenhouse gases, nikiforuk
Toxic Trail Exposure: Youth Delegation Tracks Tar Sands in Great Lakes Region
By: Polaris Institute
Published: September 2009
The report, “Toxic Trail Exposure,” is the result of an Ontario youth delegation that traveled together to Sarnia, Detroit and Windsor to uncover and expose the connections between the Great Lakes Region and tar sands developments.
Tagged with: polaris institute, public health, great lakes region, tar sands youth delegation
Carbon Copy Preventing Oil Sands Fever in Saskatchewan
By: Pembina Institute | Terra Simieritsch
Published: August 2009
The oil sands in Saskatchewan could hold as much as 2.3 billion barrels of bitumen, and cover an area of 27,000 square kilometres. Development of oil sands is still in its early stages in Saskatchewan, so there is still an opportunity to do things properly and avoid the mistakes in Alberta.
Tagged with: pembina institute, saskatchewan, saskatchewan environmental society
