tar sands

Keystone Opponents Deepen Criticism of Proposed Pipeline

By Carey L. Biron
Two new reports, put out by a cross-section of U.S. environmental and public interest groups, are attacking central rationales for the construction of a major new Canada-U.S. oil pipeline proposal, which has emerged as an emblematic cause for green groups who have angrily denounced a U.S. government approvals process.

Leaking Pipeline Offers Warning on Keystone XL Proposal

By Katelyn Fossett
Environmental groups are sounding alarms about conflicting reports on the size and seriousness of an oil spill that took place late last week in the southern U.S. state of Arkansas.

Draft Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline “Devastatingly Cynical”

By Carey L. Biron
The U.S. State Department late Friday released a draft environmental impact assessment of a contentious pipeline project that simultaneously acknowledged the dangers posed by climate change while also noting the project would “not likely result in significant adverse environmental effects”.

Climate Rally Draws “Line in the Sand” on Canadian Pipeline

By Stephen Leahy
The largest climate rally in U.S. history is expected Sunday in Washington DC with the aim of pressuring President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Q&A: Venerable Sierra Club Gets Radical on Tar Sands

By George Gao
The term “civil disobedience” takes its roots from an 1849 essay by U.S. poet, philosopher and environmentalist, Henry David Thoreau, originally entitled “Resistance to Civil Government”.