Tar Sands

What is next in the United States, if the oil industry succeeds in silencing Canadian voices asking for basic public health and safety protections?

Despite all the industry hype over jobs and purported energy security benefits from building the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, a new report shows the mammoth Canadian tar sands pipeline will cut the amount of gasoline produced in the U.S. and jack up gas prices for American drivers.

Welcome to Rocket Trike Diaries, a 10-week video tour of the 2011 "Ride for Renewables: No Tar Sands Oil On American Soil!" Join Tom Weis as he pedals his rocket trike 2,150 miles through America's heartland in support of landowners fighting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline scheme.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State regulators testified Wednesday that the first U.S. commercial oil sands operation won't pollute groundwater because the ...

When politicians and K Street lobbyists peddle the $7 billion Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, you can bet the red meat rhetoric about jobs and national security -- fanciful charges according to independent analysis -- is straight out of the game plan from DC's most popular blood sport; trolling for petro dollars.

Welcome to Rocket Trike Diaries, a 10-week video tour of the 2011 "Ride for Renewables: No Tar Sands Oil On American Soil!" Join Tom Weis as he pedals his rocket trike 2,150 miles through America's heartland in support of landowners fighting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline scheme.

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Argentina to the Philippines, here are the six areas of conflict -- all tied to energy supplies -- that have made news in just the first few months of 2012.

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

Welcome to Rocket Trike Diaries, a 10-week video tour of the 2011 "Ride for Renewables: No Tar Sands Oil On American Soil!" Join Tom Weis as he pedals his rocket trike 2,150 miles through America's heartland in support of landowners fighting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline scheme.

The Keystone XL pipeline has become a red-hot lightning rod for politicians pushing Big Oil's misinformation campaign of hugely inflated jobs numbers and their specious arguments about national security. The truth is this is about oil industry profits and political gamesmanship, pure and simple.

Welcome to Rocket Trike Diaries, a 10-week video tour of the 2011 "Ride for Renewables: No Tar Sands Oil On American Soil!" Join Tom Weis as he pedals his rocket trike 2,150 miles through America's heartland in support of landowners fighting TransCanada's toxic Keystone XL tar sands pipeline scheme.

Like many residents of the San Juan Islands, Johannes Krieger's livelihood is inextricably tied to the sea. He runs kayak and whale-watching tours her...

Critics of U.S. domestic energy policy are trying to maneuver the Keystone XL oil pipeline past the Oval Office, but in the long shadow of the Keystone XL pipeline project are a series of domestic oil pipelines that could make Keystone redundant by the time it goes into service in 2015.

Welcome to Rocket Trike Diaries -- a 10 week video tour of the 2011 "Ride for Renewables: No Tar Sands Oil On American Soil!"

On the night of July 25, 2010, a section of the continent's vast pipeline network spilled around a million gallons of chemical-laden crude into western Michigan waterways. In the debate over our nation's energy future, the Kalamazoo River spill may prove even more important than the BP blowout.

Before we can move forward full-bore on this, we need to neutralize all those environmentalist whiners who have shown an annoying degree of persistence as they protest our every move.

In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation rose in protest this week to join a 48-hour hunger strike in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline -- and all tar sands pipelines -- they say will destroy precious water resources and ancestral lands in the U.S and in Canada.

Will the oil curse become as familiar on this continent in the wake of a new American energy rush as it is in Africa and elsewhere? Will North America, that is, become not just the next boom continent for energy bonanzas, but a new energy Third World?

The fight against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is starting to feel more like a bad horror movie everyday. Just when you think our heroes have struck a fateful blow, out comes a hand from the soil. "The zombie lives!"

With news that President Obama will fast track the building of the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Texans in its path&nb...