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16/5/2013
The Canadian government has nearly doubled its advertising spending to promote the Alberta
tar sands in an aggressive new lobbying push ahead of Thursday's visit to New York by the prime minister, Stephen Harper.
The Harper government ...
16/5/2013
Environmentalists suffered a setback on Tuesday when British Columbia re-elected a premier who left the door open for approval of two oil pipelines that would carry
tar sands oil across B.C. to the Pacific Coast, where it could be exported to the ...
16/5/2013
Police had a hard time trying to figure out how to get three protestors out of solid cement near Wewoka and Holdenville Tuesday morning.The protestors are with the Great Plains
Tar Sands Resistance and Cross Timbers Earth ...
10/5/2013
The biggest backers of the Democratic causes urged Barack Obama on Friday to take historic action on climate change by rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline.
In a letter seen by the Guardian, 150 high-profile figures, who between them ...
6/5/2013
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver will make the Harper government's case for the Alberta oil
sands in Europe this week. But before he can begin, he finds himself contending with inconveniently timed comments from Al Gore about Canada's ...
6/5/2013
A bill creating a two-year moratorium on the transportation of "tar
sands" oil in Maine pit environmental groups against those who say the ban would have far-reaching negative effects on the
economy during testimony before the Legislature`s ...
6/5/2013
Can we all agree that the current energy
economy is fundamentally toxic to nature and people? Can we agree that there is no more important task than building a new energy
economy, one that supports flourishing human and natural communities? Can ...
4/5/2013
The Harper government is facing a “challenging” task to promote the benefits of energy efficiency for Canadians in light of hundreds of millions of dollars of reductions in green spending, says a federal public-relations strategy obtained by ...
1/5/2013
Mining is one of the most viscerally destructive and horrific ways in which the dominant culture--industrial civilization--enacts its violence on the living world. As entirely and unequivocally destructive as this society is, few other industrial ...
1/5/2013
The passing of another Earth Day seems to have some pundits waxing nostalgic. One such pundit, Nicholas Lemann of the New Yorker, wrote a glowing piece about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who turned out for the first Earth Day in 1970. ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
25/4/2013
On Monday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told the State Department that the information in the State Department’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline is “insufficient.” Among EPA’s many concerns ...
24/4/2013
U.S. EPA says the State Department's latest review of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline contains "insufficient information" on several fronts, including greenhouse gas emissions, alternative routes and the consequences of a potential spill ...
23/4/2013
Keystone XL critics said they amassed more than 1 million comments against the pipeline to carry oil from Canada, showing what they called grassroots opposition to the $5.3 billion project.
Keystone will “contribute dramatically” to ...
22/4/2013
At a public hearing this week in Nebraska, there's sure to be plenty of talk about the environmental impact of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that will bring oil from Hardisty, Alberta through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska to Steele City ...
19/4/2013
The world could be heading for a major economic crisis as stock markets inflate an investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune of trillions of dollars, according to leading economists.
"The financial crisis has shown what happens when ...
18/4/2013
U.S. construction workers, environmentalists and company executives squared off on Thursday at a raucous meeting on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but it was unclear the gathering changed any minds on the controversial project.
U.S. State ...
17/4/2013
We have far more oil, coal and gas than we can safely burn. For all the millions of words written about climate change, the challenge really comes down to this: fuel is enormously useful, massively valuable and hugely important geopolitically, ...
10/4/2013
Until the Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29, leaking an estimated 147,000 to 210,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into the town of Mayflower, Ark., few Arkansans knew it was even there.
In fact, thousands of miles of pipelines snake ...
9/4/2013
Olympic medallists in snowboarding and skiing have called on Barack Obama on to save winter sports by taking ambitious measures against climate change.
In a letter to the White House, 75 champions, including pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones ...
6/4/2013
Our planet is already showing the stress of radical climate change, affecting the Earth right before our eyes. The climate is different than when we were kids, and it is changing more rapidly than ever before. Accordingly, the underlying thesis ...
4/4/2013
Demonstrators hold signs as they protest near the site of a fundraiser on April 3, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Hundreds of protesters staged a demonstration against war and the Keystone XL pipeline outside of a fundraiser to be attended by ...
4/4/2013
If Americans needed a reminder of the serious environmental risks posed by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, they got it last week with the oil spill in Mayflower, a suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas. More than 12,000 barrels of crude spilled into ...
4/4/2013
President Obama yesterday used a fund-raising trip to California to call on his supporters to redouble efforts to make the economic case for environmental policies, arguing that they needed to make it clearer how green initiatives will benefit ...
3/4/2013
I`ve had many friends, even like-minded, eco-friendly friends, ask me, "Why is Keystone a big deal? Isn`t it just another pipeline?"
Keystone is a big deal, because it is not just another pipeline. It is the make-or-break piece of the ...