Canada Tar Sands

By Barbara Lewis, David Ljunggren and Jeffrey Jones BRUSSELS/OTTAWA, May 10 (Reuters) - There's a science to using science. ...

* Emission figures signal targeted cut will be hard to hit * Emissions grew by 0.25 pct in 2010, economy by 3.2 percent ...

Is it radical to care for our country, our world, our children and grandchildren, our future? It seems more radical for a government to come out swinging in favour of an industrial project in advance of public hearings into that project.

At the insistence of Republican lawmakers, the tax bill moving through Congress includes a provision requiring the president to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline in 60 days. This is political opportunism at its most cynical.

The European Union's climate commissioner announced this week that the EU's plans to label all fuel produced from oil sands as "highly polluting" are ...

Instead of pretending that expanding the tar sands will somehow help women in Saudi Arabia, let's talk about how we can help Canadian women impacted right here at home by tar sands expansion.

The relentless destruction of boreal forest wilderness via tar sands development has conspired to deprive caribou of their life requisites while exposing them to levels of predation they did not evolve with and are incapable of adapting to.

My 11-year-old son should have a vote on this pipeline issue. Yet he and all the children have little say in the world they will inherit, one that may be changed utterly, in ways we can't even comprehend.

The movement to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has become symbolic of our struggle to avert climate catastrophe, and it's breaking through and gaining momentum.

Gasoline made from the tar sands gives a Toyota Prius the same impact on climate as a Hummer using gasoline made from oil. The pipeline President Obama is considering would be an enormous mistake.

“The only thing we need is more company. We don’t need your sympathy, we need your company," Tar Sands Action leader Bill McKibben said from jail,...

From Garth Lenz: Ten years ago, my wife and I sat huddled together, watching in horror the images from New York. We had just learned that my wife w...

CALGARY, Alberta -- In the northern reaches of Alberta lies a vast reserve of oil that the U.S. views as a pillar of its future energy needs. China, ...

When it comes to energy ugly, tar sands could take the cake. Getting oil out of them is a dirty, dangerous, and deadly process.

In this clip, James Cameron, director of "Avatar," speaks to MSNBC via Skype about his thoughts on his trip to get a first-hand glimpse of the controv...

The extraction of oil from the Athabasca tar sands in Alberta, Canada has been a source of immense controversy as production continues to expand. The...

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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), a senior member of Congress and chair of the powerful Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce has penned a public let...

As long as we rely on risky fuels like tar sands oil, keeping our communities safe will be an uphill slog. The safest path is to reduce our dependence on these fuels and shift to cleaner alternatives.

When former US President Bill Clinton went for an "unofficial" visit to North Korea to negotiate the release of two imprisoned American journalists he...

Tar sands producers and others are promoting tar sands oil as an ecologically-friendly alternative to the environmental risks of another deep-water oil spill. How low the bar has fallen.