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Tailings Pond

Tailings pond north of Syncrude Upgrader.Photo by David Dodge, courtesy of The Pembina Institute Copyright 2005For more information please visit www.oilsandswatch.org

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The Tar Sands: The World's Largest Industrial Project

With 174 billion barrels of proven reserves and more than 150 billion dollars of capital investments, the alberta tar sands is planet's largest energy project.   But this vast energy wealth comes with...

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Toxic Alberta - Part 1

VBS travelled to Ft. McMurray, Alberta to document the environmental, social, health and economic impact of the oil sands industry on the surrounding communities, Canada as a whole, and the rest of the...

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Tar Sands Watch

Tar Sands watch is a part of the Polaris Institute. Polaris is designed to enable citizen movements to act for democratic social change on major public policy issues in an age of corporate driven...

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Tar Sands Time Out

The Sierra Club's official portal for tar sands activism and information.

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Dominion Special Issue: TAR SANDS

In Spring 2007, The Dominion Newspaper launched a special issue covering the Alberta Tar Sands. Issued before any mainstream media was covering the topic, it features 48 pages of original content.read...

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Tar Sands & Water (Part 1 of 5)

Interviews with mostly members of the Fort MacKay and Fort Chipewyan communities, discussing cultural and environmental impacts of living downstream of the tar sands (allegedly causing cancers in these...

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Birds and Canada's Tar Sands: Why America's Number 1 Source of Oil is...

Dr. Jeff Wells explains how Canada's tar sands (US' #1 source of oil, over Saudi Arabia), will likely result in millions of birds lost, where waterfowl land and die, and through habitat loss and water...

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Effects of the Tar Sands: Fort Mackay, Alberta

Clips from an interview with Celina Harpe, an elder in the Cree community of Fort Mackay, about 40km downstream from Suncor and Syncrude plants on the Athabasca River. She describes the increase in...

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Tom Goldtooth - No New Tar Sands Approvals

Tom Goldtooth and a First Nation speaker from Fort Chipewyan speak at Taking the Boom to the Streets, a march and rally against new approvals in Alberta's Tar Sands, on November 1, 2008. This was in...

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From the Bottom of the Pit

This is a chapter within the book, Extraction!: Comix Reportage, edited by Frédéric Dubois, Marc Tessier and David Widgington, and  published in 2003 by Cumulus Press that discusses the dirtier sides...

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Oil Sands Truth

Based out of Edmonton, Alberta, "Oil Sands Truth exists to disseminate information regarding the environmental, social and economic impacts of tar sands development projects being proposed and...

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Casey Camp-Horinek Speaking at Everyone's Downstream II

From Oil Sands Truth: "A moving speech by Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma on the theft and industrial devastation of their lands. Many Ponca are dying from cancer in what is now...

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Shutting down the tar sands: Interview with Petr Cizek

Originally broadcast on Vancouver Coop Radio 102.7FM's Redeye news program."The Alberta tar sands cover a vast area of huge open pits and tailings ponds. The environmental consequences are enormous and...

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Environmental Defence

Environmental Defence protects the environment and human health. They research solutions. They educate and go to court when necessary. All in order to ensure clean air, clean water, thriving ecosystems...

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Interview with Gordon Laxer, Parkland Institute Director

Gordon Laxer is the Director of Parkland Institute, a non-corporate Alberta research network that studies public policy alternatives. He has been a political economist in the Sociology Department at...

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Tyson Slocum: Big Oil, Hot Profits & Global Warming

Tyson Slocum, Director of the Energy Program at Public Citizen, joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio to discuss his report, "Hot Profits & Global Warming: How Oil Companies Hurt Consumers and the...

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ForestEthics

"ForestEthics is a nonprofit environmental organization with staff in Canada, the United States and C­hile. Our mission is to protect Endangered Forests and wild places, wildlife, and human...

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Equiterre

Equiterre is a Quebec-based environmental organisation that  "Through its four programs - ecological agriculture, fair trade, sustainable transportation and energy efficiency – and its two campaigns -...

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Dogwood Initiative

The Dogwood Initiative is raising concerns about the impacts that increased tanker traffic off the B.C. coast, near Kitimat. They fear the ships, intended specifically to transport oil from the Alberta...

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Suncor Millenium Mine

Suncor Millenium Mine north of Ft. McMurray, AB Photo by David Dodge, courtesy of The Pembina Institute Copyright 2005For more information please visit www.oilsandswatch.org 

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Syncrude Oil Sands Upgrader Plant

Syncrude Oil Sands Upgrader Plant.Photo by David Dodge, courtesy of The Pembina Institute Copyright 2005For more information please visit www.oilsandswatch.org

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Oil Sands Watch Website

The Pembina institute presents all of its reports on the environmental effects of the oil sands on northern Alberta at this website. There you will also find fact sheets, photos of the oil sands mines,...

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Ep. 81 - From Tar Sands to Great Lakes

The Tar Sands of Northern Alberta never cease to elicit debate. Located near the remote community of Fort McMurray, they are the world’s single largest industrial project – and the only one visible...

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where does the waste go?

Wonder where used up tar sands equipment goes? Read the sign! This is on highway 881, the "alternate" route that goes through Conklin, etc East of Highway 63.

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Tar Sands and the American Automobile

Tar Sands and the American AutomobileHeavy crude largely heads south to fuel American carsby Yves Engler Bianca MugyenyiThe Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.caread more

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For Many Women, Alberta's Boom a Bust

For Many Women, Alberta's Boom a BustRising housing costs, lack of alternatives lead to precarious situationsby Maya Rolbin-GhanieThe Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.caread more

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British Columbia and the Alberta tar sands

Toxic substances for the Alberta tar sands are being transported up and down the Georgia Straight despite a federal moratorium against oil tankers in the B.C. coast. Blair Redlin of CUPE says this is...

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Canada prohibited from cutting gas and oil exports to the U.S.

Canada prohibited from cutting gas and oil exports to the U.S.read more

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Freezing in the Dark

January 31, 2008Eastern Canada Vulnerable to Oil ShortagesNew Report Calls for Canada to Set Up Strategic Petroleum ReservesEDMONTON—Canada is currently the most vulnerable country in the industrial...

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How the Oil Sands Got to the Great Lakes Basin: Pipelines, Refineries and...

Refineries in the Great Lakes Basin are rapidly expanding to accommodate crude oil from the Alberta oil sands. This conference, "How the Oil Sands Got to the Great Lakes Basin: Pipelines, Refineries...

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The Alberta Oil (Tar Sands): Canadian Prosperity- Global Nightmare

Although the Alberta tar sands may bring prosperity to Canada, it comes with a heavy price.   What is refered to as a "modern day black gold rush," will also make Canada  one of the highest polluting...

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A Tour of Syncrude "with commentary"

This is a tour through the mining complex with "running commentary" from the tour guide. This is one of the largest oil sands projects up in Northern Alberta

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Camp for Temporary Workers

One of the many camps housing tens of thousands of workers. This one houses construction workers building another refinery. Most workers are involved in construction in the tar sands. var gaJsHost =...

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The Second Largest Dam on Earth

The world's second biggest dam

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Tar Sands Pipelines Map

This map shows the proposed routes of pipelines through canada, from the tar sands, which are slated for development in the next 10 years.

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Map: Tar Sands Exports

This detailed map shows the routes of exports from the tar sands to various markets.

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Tar Sands Training Camp

This year, from January 16th-18th, a group of activists, environmentalists and students gathered in the University of Saskatchewan, for the first of many conferences created to educate and create plans...

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Dirty Oil: Alberta's Tar Sands Explained

Watch this video and listen to environmentalist, Andrew Nikiforuk, explain the environmental crisis occuring in Alberta due to the "dirty oil" known as the tar sands

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To The Tar Sands Trailer

To The Tar Sands follows a group of nineteen young environmentalists as they cycle over 1300 kilometres northbound across Alberta to witness the impacts of the tar sands boom firsthand. They ask...

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Dominion Radio Tackles the Tar Sands

Dominion Radio broadcasts grassroots news from across the country, focusing on stories and voices silenced by the mainstream media.read more

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The Indigenous Environmental Network: Protecting communities against oil...

Clayton Thomas-Müller of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is the indigenous oil campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. He works across Alaska, Canada...

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Tar Sands Production to Increase Five Fold

A meeting of U.S and Canadian oil executives took place in Houston a year ago. At that meeting, discussions were underway to increase tar sands oil production by 500%. The tar sands are currently the...

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Crude awakening: Why are environmentalists asleep at the tar sands wheel?

Crude awakeningWhy are environmentalists asleep at the tar sands wheel? read more

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Will an American Surge Win the War for Oil?

Will an American Surge Win the War for Oil?Posted: April 10, 2007Section:by Macdonald Stainsby; Originally published on Znet on March 25, 2007read more

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Alberta Tar Sands to Increase Output 250% Over Next 10 Years

Environmental ImpactEnvironmental Defense has a report on Alberta's tar sands (which we mentioned in: Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth). It doesn't paint a rosy picture:read more

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Rhetoric and Reality Clash on Obama's First Foreign Visit

Rhetoric and Reality Clash on Obama's First Foreign VisitChris Arsenault read more

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H2Oil

H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion. Unlikely alliances are built and lives are...

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Oil Economy Driving Growth of Controversial Tar Sands

ENERGY:Oil Economy Driving Growth of Controversial Tar Sands Chris ArsenaultVANCOUVER, Canada, Jun 1 (IPS) - A report from one of the world’s top energy consultancies says oil production in Canada’s...

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Why the Tar Sands Blow

Tar sands oil is a high carbon fuel strip-mined from beneath Canada’s Boreal forest. Fuel from tar sands represents an increasingly significant portion of the fuel used in cars in the United States. To...

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