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Industry agrees: Keystone not just political

The tar sands industry lists market access as the number one threat to its future in a recent industry survey.

Fact Checking on Keystone XL and Exports

The President was right on Keystone XL being an export pipeline. The Washington Post Fact Checker got it wrong.

Counting the carbon kept in the ground

A graphic published today by Oil Change International shows the carbon left in the ground in cancelled tar sands projects and the potential impact of continued action to stop tar sands pipelines.

Tar Sands Train to Ruin

Southern Pacific Resources was the first tar sands producer to commit all of its production to crude-by-rail. Today, the company is on the brink of disaster.

The tar sands train that couldn’t

Tar sands-by-rail is a major issue in the debate on Keystone XL. In this first of a series of blogs on the issue, we look at the ongoing failures of the first tar sands unit train terminal.