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Tar sands and the myth of tidewater access

If you are paying attention to the tar sands pipeline conversations, you have no doubt heard industry proponents argue that Alberta needs another pipeline to get its oil to tidewater (i.e. the east or west coast of Canada in this...

Subsidy Spotlight: Paying the Price of Tar Sands Expansion

From tar sands refinery subsidies in Whiting, Indiana and cash-strapped Detroit to petcoke covering the neighborhoods of Southeast Chicago, this subsidy spotlight explores the human impact of government subsidies gone haywire.

KXL: Its Not an Either / Or Decision

Bold leadership on climate by Obama and Kerry means both saying no to KXL and tightened emission standards for power stations.

“We’re facing a very strong, almost revolutionary movement”

Patrick Daniel knows he is in trouble. The CEO of Enbridge, the company that wants to build the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to British Colombia to export the dirty tar sands, admits that his opponents have “seized control...