The Nebraska Public Service Commission has rejected TransCanada’s preferred tar sands pipeline route through the state, while okaying an alternate route that could mean years of legal hurdles.
As fossil fuel firms drive bitumen tar sands pipelines toward U.S. and Canadian coasts, a bold alliance of U.S. Native Peoples and Canadian First Nations is successfully blocking their way.
In a week of sweeping executive actions related to the environment, President Donald J. Trump and his administration moved to seal off the public's connection with several key government agencies,…
President Donald J. Trump signed two executive orders Tuesday to allow the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects to move forward. The pen strokes reversed the course of former…
A new study casts doubt on the long-term ability of the Athabasca River to supply the water Alberta’s oil sands industry relies on. Water is allocated to oil sands operations…
Alberta tar sands. Photo courtesy of Dru Oja Jay, Dominion. In its first-ever report on responsible investing, Norway's pension fund announced last week that it has divested from 114 companies…
Wildfires may become more common as temperature and precipitation patterns shift Crackling heat and thick billowing smoke raced across the landscape. After weeks of scorching dry summer weather, the wildfire…
Tar sands region lost 775,000 hectares of forest between 2001 and 2013, more loss expected as operations expand In a YouTube video posted Monday, Leonardo DiCaprio challenged Canadian Prime Minister…
Hundreds of activists including Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein are going into the heart of Canada's tar sands this week – not to protest the destruction of the local environment,…
Efforts to expand production from the Alberta tar sands suffered a significant setback on Friday when the provincial government of British Columbia rejected a pipeline project because of environmental shortcomings.…
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…
Independent air samples by locals have yielded "a soup of toxic chemicals" in Mayflower, Arkansas where an Exxon Mobil pipeline burst on March 29th spilling some 5,000 barrels of tar…
Last Saturday, an oil pipeline carrying tar sands oil from Canada ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas spilling between 3,500-5,000 barrels of crude (at most 210,000 gallons) into neighborhood streets and lawns.…
Forward on Climate Rally in Washington DC. Photo by: Project Survival Media. Yesterday over 35,000 people rallied in Washington D.C. for urgent action on climate change, which, according to organizers,…
A portion of the tar sands in Alberta as viewed from the air in 2006. Some have dubbed this the 'largest energy project in the world.' Yesterday, climate activists marched…
Protestor against Keystone XL Pipeline escorted away after arrest in 2010. Photo by: Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action. Hours after President Obama's historic re-election, climate group 350.org announced a massive rally…
View Larger Map The tar sands as seen from Google Earth near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Carrying signs that said 'Stop Harper's War on Knowledge' and 'Scientists Shouldn't Wear a Muzzle,'…
What's the big deal about the tar sands? Canadian photographer Garth Lenz presents the local environmental and social concerns presented by the tar sands in a concise, impassioned speech in…
Oil sands construction: land clearing in preparation of the construction of an oil sands project in northern Alberta. Photo by: Bigstock. Environmentalists have targeted the oil-producing tar sands in Canada…
View Larger Map The tar sands as seen from Google Earth near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Keystone XL is becoming the project that refuses to die: TransCanada, the company behind the…
The world's top five oil companies—BP, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Exxon Mobil, and Royal Dutch Shell—made a record $137 billion in 2011 beating out the previous record in 2008, reports Climate…
Three environmental groups have submitted a letter to British Columbia Premier, Christy Clark, to ask the government to speed up the process of implementing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement, which…
View Larger Map The tar sands as seen from Google Earth near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Along with Bill McKibben and a small cadre of passionate environmental activists, Kelly Blynn co-founded…
Around 12,000 protestors, including children, encircled the White House in November. A new report by Media Matters finds that the U.S. media largely ignored these protestors and their message. Photo…
View Larger Map The tar sands as seen from Google Earth near Fort McMurray, Alberta. The Obama administration today announced it is scrapping TransCanada's Keystone pipeline after Republicans forced a…
Less than two days after signing on to a "road map" agreement at the UN Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa, Canada has announced it is formally withdrawing from the…
View Larger Map The tar sands as seen from Google Earth near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Purchasing a full page ad in the Canadian paper the Globe and Mail, a group…
View Larger Map The tar sands as seen from Google Earth near Fort McMurray, Alberta. In what can only be described as a major victory for green activists, the Obama…
Around 12,000 protestors surrounded the White House, some carrying a symbolic pipeline. Photo by: Clayton Conn. One year to the day before the 2012 US election, up to 12,000 activists…
Protestor against Keystone XL Pipeline escorted away after arrest. Photo by: Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action. Climate and environmental activism in the US received a shot of enthusiasm this summer when…