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Tailings pond breaks law: federal officer
News Articles | Edmonton Journal | Alexandra Zabjek | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Syncrude not charged until 2008 duck deaths
Oil refinery threatens Loess Hills grassland
Opinion | DesMoines Register | Jim Redmond | Sierra Club | Tuesday, March 09, 2010
For three decades, Iowans have worked hard to save our state's surviving slivers of native prairie. Thanks to the Nature Conservancy, the beautiful Broken Kettle Grassland is Iowa's largest native prairie preserve.
No ‘duck porn’ in Stelmach’s political pond
News Articles | Edmonton Journal | Graham Thompson | Tuesday, March 09, 2010
There are moments watching the goings on at the Alberta legislature you have to give your head a shake
Crude Awakening
News Articles | Audubon Magazine | Barry Yeoman | Monday, March 08, 2010
Right here in North America could lie the answer to our energy needs. But at what cost? Mining the tar sands of Alberta threatens to strip the world’s largest intact forest of its ability to hold carbon and to wipe out the breeding grounds for millions of birds.
Stelmach says he hasn’t seen pictures of oil-covered ducks
News Articles | Edmonton Journal | Trish Audette | Monday, March 08, 2010
EDMONTON — Premier Ed Stelmach of Alberta said Monday he hasn’t seen pictures of oil-soaked ducks trapped in a Syncrude tailings pond — images that have been key evidence since the start of a court case last week that has gained international attention. Stelmach did not say why he hasn’t seen the images.
Audubon magazine urges U.S. legislators to discourage oilsands development
News Articles | The Winnipeg Free Press | Jim Macdonald | Monday, March 08, 2010
EDMONTON - A magazine produced in the United States by the highly-respected conservation group, the National Audubon Society, is calling on American politicians to adopt policies that shun fuels taken from Alberta's oilsands.
Hyperion releases options for 5,000 acres
News Articles | Sioux City Journal | Michele Linck | Sunday, March 07, 2010
Some landowners 'glad' company walked away from their land
Green groups to Cameron: Be king of the enviornment!
News Articles | Time | Bryan Walsh | Sunday, March 07, 2010
Green groups are desperate for Cameron to name himself King of the Environment. Days before the Academy Awards on Mar. 7 — Avatar is up for nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director — a coalition of environmental groups launched a campaign to highlight the movie's not-so-hidden green subtext, and to prevail upon the director to use the awards-show platform to send the world an environmental message.
Alberta project is losing the PR battle
News Articles Featured | Financial Times | Bernard Simon | Sunday, March 07, 2010
The intensifying scrutiny of the Alberta oil sands’ greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other damage to the environment has led to a backlash against the heavy oil from the region.
“Alberta Clipper Pipeline” appeal filed in Leech Lake Tribal Court
Media Releases | | Friday, March 05, 2010
The four (4) plaintiffs, of a group known as In Zha Wen Dun Aki, in this court case are the Leech Lake Tribal Members who are in opposition to Enbridge Energy laying a new pipeline across the Leech Lake Reservation.
Attacking the Pandora oil sands
Opinion | National Post | Peter Foster | Friday, March 05, 2010
There are plenty of other reasons to hope that Canadian-born Mr. Cameron fails to own the podium, including the fact that his film was this week cited approvingly as part of a vicious ongoing campaign against the Alberta oilsands.
Dirty oil? How about ‘responsible’
News Articles | Globe and Mail | Nathan Vanderklippe | Friday, March 05, 2010
With images of dying, bitumen-soaked ducks back in the public eye, and a new ad comparing the oil sands to sci-fi super villains, Canada's energy industry is fighting the "dirty oil" criticism with its own phrase. It may not have quite the same zing, but the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) now wants you to think of the oil sands as "responsible oil," in a new attempt at defining the controversial industrial project in more favourable terms.
