Tagged with Tar Sands 
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The tar sands blow 0
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Are biofuels really worse than Canadian oil sands? 13
Posted 2 months, 1 week agoWhen several scientific studies began publishing reports that supported the common sense contention that food-based biofuels usurp farmland the Renewable Fuels Association (which just spent almost a quarter of a million dollars last quarter on lobbying) had to cobble together some kind of defense.
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Welcome to America, Stephen Harper!
Activists drape Niagara Falls with banner to protest tar-sands oil 6
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
There's a 70 foot banner and activists dangling over the observation tower at Niagara Falls.
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Signed. Sealed. Will they deliver?
ForestEthics mails Fortune 500 companies to kick off tar-sands campaign 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
ForestEthics has mailed letters to more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, warning that their continued consumption of fuels from Canada’s tar sands—the world’s dirtiest oil—puts their brands at risk.
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well deserved!
Damning look at Canada’s tar sands tops enviro journalism awards 1
Posted 4 months ago
Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk won the top prize from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual reporting awards for his investigation of oil extraction in the tar sands of northern Alberta.
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You just can't teach an old petro-dog re-new-able tricks.
“Back to Petroleum”: BP shuts clean energy HQ, slashes renewables budget, dives into tar sands 4
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
BP has shut down its alternative energy headquarters in London, accepted the resignation of its clean energy boss and imposed budget cuts in moves likely to be seen by environmental critics as further signs of the oil group moving "back to petroleum".
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That's Mucked Up
Book exposes the messy conditions of Canada’s tar sands 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Of all the absurdities at play in extracting oil from Alberta's vast northern tar sands deposits, the most staggering might be the nuclear renaissance it threatens to create in Canada.
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Economics malpractice, climate and poverty, oil sands nightmares, and more WSJ dipshittery 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago -
Can the problems of the developing world be solved by ignoring global warming? 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago -
Obama, Harper fired up to make dirty energy clean 1
Posted 9 months ago -
Memo to Obama: CCS won’t make tar sands clean. Memo to all: They ain’t ‘oil sands.’ 2
Posted 9 months ago -
Obama says tar-sands oil has ‘big carbon footprint,’ but doesn’t rule out its use 3
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Canadian PM and business groups use Obama’s visit to shill for dirty tar sands oil 2
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
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