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Canadian crude selling for “roughly the same price as a Big Mac”

Warren Mabee, the director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University, said he "wouldn’t be surprised if Canadian crude prices briefly go negative - a scenario where producers are paying people to take away product.”

Lessons Learned? Tar Sands Producers Move to Cut Production

A remarkable thing just happened in Canada’s oil patch. Tar sands producers have actually started to cut oil production in the face of growing pipeline constraints.

Despite a new mega-mine opening, the tar sands “era is over”

For those concerned about climate justice and leaving a living legacy to our grand-children, your everyday actions are making a positive difference. Sometimes, in these destructive days of Trump, and svengali politics of Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, we just don’t say that enough.

Civil society to Justin Trudeau: “The time for investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure is over”

With just over a week to go until the May 31 deadline set by Kinder Morgan for the Canadian Government to resolve all financial and political issues surrounding its highly controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, some 236 civil society groups from 44 countries have today written to Justin Trudeau to tell him to drop his support for the project.

Tar Sands Lobbyist: It’s “Irresponsible” to Plan for an Oil-Free World

An energy lobby group has published its vision of the future that they hope everyone can embrace. Promising to deliver “global climate leadership”, they conclude “We can be the world’s energy of tomorrow”.

In the Age of Stranded Assets, Who Pays to Clean Up the Mess?

Who will clean up the mess if oil companies go bust as the whole fossil fuel industry goes from a downcycle into a potential “death spiral”?

Reality check: the end of growth in the tar sands. So now what?

The oil industry's own data shows that the tar sands are on the edge of decline – but the key question is if they will take everyone else down with them.