Tar sands

Tar Sands Art: Dramatic before and after images of Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada. Photos by Garth Lenz.

Bill McKibben rebuts the charge that he’s “anti-Alberta” because of his opposition to such fossil-fuel projects as the Keystone XL pipeline, and interviews Deborah Brosnan about an attempt to make the International Criminal Court recognize “ecocide.”

The road to Fort McMurray, Alberta, formally begins about 200 kilometres north of Edmonton, just past the busy Al Pac pulp mill and a small village called Amber Valley. Until 1970, Highway 63 didn't even appear on a map. Since then the 240-kilometre-long, two-lane road has become the critical artery in and out of Canada's

...viewed from a helicopter. In the late 1990s, Suncor abandoned draglines and moved to truck-and-shovel operations. This approach saves money and time, and has been implemented by Syncrude and the Shell-operated Albian Sands mining project.

Canada has no detailed plan to meet its emissions reduction targets, is on pace to fall well short of missing them and has made no long-term commitment to environmental monitoring in the oil sands, report finds

Activism doesn’t come naturally to Canadians. But divestment is finding its historic place in the transition to a more sustainable energy future

We must find solutions to transition our society away from fossil fuels. However, we must also recognize that this transition will not happen overnight.

Extreme Energy set of new extraction methods Driven by depletion of natural resources Particularly the recent rise in oil prices Includes Tar Sands, Deep Water Drilling and Mountain Top Removal Characterised by much greater extraction effort Increased destruction of environment and communities