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Groups File Appeal Over State Department’s Refusal to Disclose Communications...
Three watchdog groups filed an appeal today with the U.S. State Department over its refusal to release correspondence between the agency and a former high-ranking presidential campaign staffer for...
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Canada Hides 20 Percent Tar Sands Annual Pollution Increase from UN
The Canadian federal government deliberately excluded data documenting a 20 percent increase in annual pollution from Alberta's tar sands industry in 2009. That detail was missing from a recent...
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TransCanada says Their Eleventh Leak Proves Keystone is Safe
UPDATE: The 1,600 figure we reported yesterday was an early and apparently erroneous estimate. The most recent figure, from The National Response Center, is closer to 8,000 litres. According to the...
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Tar Sands Industry Has Its Eyes On Vancouver For Asian Export Terminal
In recent months, opposition to Enbrige’s Northern Gateway Pipeline has mounted as citizens, environmental groups and First Nations groups have protested the $5.5 billion dollar pipeline that would...
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Breaking: TransCanada Keystone I Pipeline Shut Down Indefinitely Due to...
Following a string of oil spills, TransCanada’s Keystone I tar sands oil pipeline has been indefinitely shut down, and banned from restarting operations. Today, the Pipelines and Hazerdous Materials...
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Two Tanker Incidents off BC Coast Confirm Tar Sand Supertanker Concerns
Two separate incidents involving container ships off the coast of British Columbia have local First Nations questioning the prudence of transporting tar sands crude in the region's hazardous waterways....
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American Sands Energy Corp. To Become Third Company to Mine Tar Sands in Utah
U.S. Oil Sands and MCW Enterprises, move over. Yet another company is poised to start grinding up and spitting out eastern Utah's wilderness for its tar sands. Until now, the biggest threat to...
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B.C. Government Calls on NEB to Compel Kinder Morgan to Answer Oil Spill...
The province of British Columbia has filed a motion with the National Energy Board (NEB) to compel pipeline company Kinder Morgan to answer the province’s questions on its Trans Mountain expansion...
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The Oilsands Cancer Story Part 1: John O’Connor and the Dawn of a New...
This is the first installment of a three-part series on Dr. John O'Connor, the family physician to first identify higher-than-average cancer rates and rare forms of cancer in communities downstream of...
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Goldman Sachs Warns Investors About Tar Sands By Rail Challenges While...
In 2009, Matt Taibbi wrote a piece in Rolling Stone in which he described the investment bank Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood...
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U.S. Oil Imports From Canada Hit All-Time High Despite Opposition
While the battle against TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline rages on and oil-by-rail faces increased scrutiny, U.S. oil imports from Canada have quietly hit a record high of 2.99 million barrels per...
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Oil-by-Rail Fuels Record U.S. Imports of Canadian Oil
In September, many of the major railroad stocks hit new all-time highs.Investors Business Daily attributed much of the increase to the business of moving oil-by-rail.While the majority of the oil...
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Calls to Ban Bomb Trains Ramp Up While Communities Await New Regulations
Earthjustice has challenged the Department of Transportation’s denial of a petition by Sierra Club and Forest Ethics to ban the transportation of Bakken crude oil in DOT-111 tank cars.“Most of the...
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Prime Minister Harper’s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands...
With U.S. President Barack Obama expected to deny a permit to the Keystone XL pipeline this fall, Canada’s oil industry is looking for someone to blame.The National Post’s Claudia Cattaneo wrote last...
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'Failed Experiment': Alberta Folds Oilsands Monitoring Agency
The Alberta government has shuttered its arm’s length environmental monitoring agency after a report concluded the program was a “failed experiment.” Minister of Environment Shannon Phillips announced...
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