More evidence that Alberta’s polluting tar sands are fast becoming a liability: The government has unveiled a new provincial brand to buck its growing international reputation as an environmental ...

The governments of Alberta and Canada have been "lying," to cover up the health impacts of the Canadian tar sands industry on northern Alberta communities, a Canadian medical doctor told U.S. senators ...

Subscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to receive future installments. Some weeks ago, the government of Alberta wrote to me—and apparently to a ...

Marchers are followed by police down a highway through Syncrude’s tar sands complex. All photos via the author. At the fifth and final Tar Sands Healing Walk, indigenous communities living on the ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, August 9, 2013 (ENS) – To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from oil production in the Alberta tar sands, the government of Canada is investing in a demonstration-scale algal ...

Due to skyrocketing costs, Shell Oil is putting expansion plans in the Canadian tar sands on hold for at least five years. The Globe and Mail reported yesterday that the head of Shell’s American ...

Alberta Tar SandsEnvironmental Defence, a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization. Twenty-four Canadian, American, and Chinese researchers contributed to an alarming study published by ...

For months during and after Canada’s 2019 federal election campaign, corporate media provided daily frontline news space for non-stop Alberta demands for more tar-sands export infrastructure through ...

When hundreds of activists protesting the Keystone XL pipeline were arrested at the White House in 2011, their ultimate target lay thousands of miles away: Canada’s tar sands. If they stopped the ...

Bill Nye the Science Guy is currently in Alberta working on a climate change documentary. And not surprisingly, when Nye went to the tar sands, he thought it was a “depressive” sight. “From an ...

Recently, Gov. Brian Schweitzer forcefully rebuffed criticisms that have been lodged against Alberta’s development of their tar sands. While he emphasized the benefits of the tar sands, he failed to ...