The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

GU Fossil Free filed a proposal November 6 calling for divestment from tar sands oil companies. A proposal by student group GU Fossil Free calling on the university to avoid investments in tar sands ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dole and Chiquita were greeted this morning with full-page ads in USA Today calling on the companies to reject extreme fossil fuels from ...

Enbridge Pipelines (Illinois) LLC is demanding eminent domain authority for the condemnation of land from over 500 Illinois residents to carry synthetic crude oil derived from the Alberta tar sands ...

Oil developers in the Canadian Tar Sands are trying to understand some odd oil eruptions around several drilling platforms where oil is coming up... Canadian Regulators Investigate Mysterious Tar ...

These representatives called the President’s attention to the environmental devastation that would result from this pipeline, including the damage that would occur before the oil even reached the ...

"Canada biggest gasoline supplier" in the Aug. 1 Missoulian is a richly informative article on the big rig proposal and how it relates to tar sands oil extraction in Canada. Please continue to keep us ...

Eriel Deranger of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta, and Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas, speak out on struggles of frontline communities fighting tar sands. An aerial view of the Alberta ...

WASHINGTON—A little-publicized Canadian court decision has thrown a monkey wrench into an on-again, off-again proposal to transport oil from tar sands mines in Alberta to a U.S. seaport in Maine for ...

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