Alberta

PHOTOS: Dino Bones In Alberta

Terry Gardner | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Paleontology, Alberta, Travel Deals, Canada, Evolution, Dinosaurs, Alberta Badlands, Royal Tyrrell Museum, Francois Therrien, Dinosaur Bones, Slideexpand, Travel Blogs, Travel News

"Alberta ... is one of the richest places in the world," says paleontologist Francois Therrien.

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Obama's 'All-Of-The Above' Energy Policy Leaves Much Off The Table

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Russia, Rep. Alan Nunnlee, Energy, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, President Obama, Alberta, Iran, St.Louis Federal Reserve, Keystone Pipeline, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Politics, Cushing Oklahoma, "All-of-the-Above" Energy Policy, West Texas Intermediate, Oil, Natural Gas, Rex Tillerson Chairman ExxonMobil, Brent Crude, Business News

What should have been said by our president is that this government is moving heaven and earth to convert our transportation fleet from gasoline and diesel to being powered by compressed natural gas.

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Read More: Quebec, Winter Travel, Beaver Creek, Spring Break, New Hampshire, Alberta, Travelzoo, Vermont, Ski Deals, Travel, Travel Deals, Canada, Travel Blogs, Colorado, Skiing, Slidewide, Slidepollajax, Travel News

March and early April often offer up some stellar late-season ski deals at popular resorts, especially in light of recent snows in northern Utah and across Colorado.

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The Myths Behind the Tar Sands Stampede

Carl Pope | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Alberta, Tar Sands, Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Oil Costs, Canada Oil Sands, World Oil Market, Green News

So tar sands are not only a source of enough carbon to increase global climate by a huge amount -- they are also the key to keeping diesel prices low enough to enable the world to fry itself by shipping long distance coal where it can be burned profitably, if lethally -- for the climate.

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Mystery Sounds Haunt The Paranormal Community (VIDEO)

TruTV.com | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Conklin, Video, Paranormal, Ufo, Mystery Sounds, Weird Canada, Weird Science, Alberta, Haarp, Weird, Bizarre Sounds, Strange Sounds, UFO News, Weird News News

Romania to Arvada, Colorado, these booming noises have been heard, taped and uploaded to YourTube for your viewing pleasure. One of the most popula...

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HuffPost Guides: Canada Olympic Park

The Huffington Post | Lesley Daunt | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Alberta Skiing, Video, Ski Resorts, Alberta Travel, Canada Olympic Park, Calgary, Alberta, Calgary Travel, Canada, Skiing, Travel News

Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta, is a popular destination for skiers and snowboarders. As part of a series on ski resorts, Huffington Post Tra...

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HuffPost Guides: Sunshine Village Ski & Snowboard Resort

The Huffington Post | Katie McBroom | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Sunshine Village Ski & Snowboard Resort, Video, Ski Resorts, Alberta Travel, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Travel, Canada Skiing, Canada, Skiing, Travel News

Sunshine Village Ski & Snowboard Resort in Alberta is a popular destination for skiers and snowboarders. As part of a series on ski resorts, Huffingto...

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The Insatiable Bark Beetle and the Northern Rockies

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, Bark Beetles, Mountain Pine Beetles, Climate Change, Dr. Reese Halter, Keystone XL Pipeline, Alberta, Global Warming, Climate Disruption, Green News

An overheating climate has enabled mountain pine beetles -- nature's emissary of massive ecological change to march north and east like never before in modern or prehistoric times.

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Wake-Up Call From Yellowstone: Keystone XL Must Be Shelved

Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Tar Sands Oil, Transcanada, Alberta Tar Sands, Montana, Yellowstone, Yellowstone River Oil Spill, Keystone XL Pipeline, Exxon Mobil, Alberta, Brian Schweitzer, Deepwater Horizon, Ogallala Aquifer, State Department, Canada, Green News

Big Oil wants to build a pipeline to send the dirtiest crude oil on the planet from the Boreal forests of Canada right through the heart of America, crossing the Yellowstone, the Missouri, the Platte and other treasured rivers on its way to Texas refineries.

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Canada To Implement Fiscal Package Before Summer Break

Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Canada Fiscal Package, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, Jim Flaherty, Peter Van Loan, Canada House of Commons, British Columbia, Canada Government, Canada, World News

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Conservative government intends to move quickly to implement its fiscal package before the summer break, House Leader Peter...

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Building an Interstate Highway for Wildlife

Alexia Parks | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Conservation, Rocky Mountains, Interstate, Grizzly Bear, Wild Foundation, Alberta, Yukon, Wilderness, Canada, Jasper, Colorado, Nature, Migration, Yellowstone, Species Extinction, Time Magazine Canada, National Parks, Banff, Green News

When we think about human settlements throughout the world, we need to remember that we are sharing the earth with others.

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PM Pledges Federal Aid For Slave Lake

CBC.ca | CBC | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Canada Federal Government, Canadian Disasters, Steven Harper, Premier Ed Stelmach, Aid, Alberta, Wildfires, Slave Lake, Home News

The federal government will help rebuild Slave Lake, Alta., after a devastating wildfire, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said while visiting the fire-r...

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Meeting the UAE Halfway

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toronto, Uae, Ottawa, Vancouver, Etihad Airways, Alberta, Abu Dhabi, Canada, Emirates Airlines, United Arab Emirates, Dubai, World News

There seems to be a misconception in Canada that the UAE is happy to sit on its laurels while the Canadians do the dirty work in Afghanistan. That is untrue.

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Weekly Mulch: The Sticky Truth about Oil Spills and Tar Sands

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, The American Prospect, Green Jobs, Oil Sands Discovery Centre, Obama Administration, Richard Heinberg, The Nation, Friends of the Earth, Pipeline, National Oil Spill Commission, Canada, Offshore Drilling, Tar Sands, Mother Jones, Oil Pipelines, Earth Island Journal, Transcanada, Bp, The Michigan Messenger, Halliburton, Alberta, Keystone XL, Care2, Oceana, Transocean, Post Carbon Institute, State Department, Peak Oil, BP Oil Spill, Hillary Clinton, Paul Elliott, Economy, Green News

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger The National Oil Spill Commission released its report on last year's BP oil spill this week. The report la...

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WATCH Canadian Health Chief To Critics: 'I'm Eating My Cookie'

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Canadian Health Care, Alberta Health Services, Stephen Duckett, Ctv, Stephen Duckett Cookie, Business News, Alberta, Health Care, Stephen Duckett Cookie Video, Canada, Raj Sherman, Video, Business News

The chief of Canada's Alberta Health Services is apparently less interested in explaining alleged health care flaws than in eating a cookie. When r...

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Rodeo Bull Jumps Into Crowd At Canadian Finals (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Canadian Finals Rodeo, Bull, Edmonton, Bulls, Alberta, Bull Riding, Canada, Rewind@Y:World, Video, World News

Spectators at the Canadian Finals Rodeo were left shaken Friday when a runaway bull bucked its rider and jumped into the crowd, CNN is reporting. ...

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Calgary Elects Muslim Mayor

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Calgary, Alberta, Muslims, Elections, Sharron Angle, Conservatives, Canada, World News

Naheed Nenshi has never held elected office before, but, riding a wave of change in a city of oil and rodeos, he triumphed over his conservative rivals, winning a 40 percent plurality of the vote.

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Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum

Bianca Jagger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Peak Oil, Shell, Exxon Mobil, Bianca Jagger, Crimes Against Present and Future Generations, 350 Ppm, Nigeria, Tar Sands, Alberta, Arctic, Moratorium, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Renewable Energy, Aspo, Green News

The time for further excuses, for procrastination and prevarication, has long passed. Now is the time for decision-makers in politics and economics to take concrete steps to avert climate catastrophe.

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Tar Sands: is this the real Canada?

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, Oil Sands, Athabasca, Climate, First Nations, Oil, Alberta, Deepwater Horizon, Climate Change, Canada, Climate Crisis, Greenpeace, Green News

Much of what I used to know about Canada stands in stark contrast to the devastation I found in the tar sands of northern Alberta. Canada, from my ex...

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What Does King Abdullah Know?

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alberta, Tar Sands, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Niger Delta, Oil Supply, Business News

No matter where you look, it is becoming increasingly clear that tomorrow's oil supply is going to come from very different places than today's.

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Vampire Blues: Suckin' Blood From the Earth

Chris Genovali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, British Columbia, British Petroleum, Neil Young, Gulf Oil Spill, Alberta, Oil Tankers, Green News

When Neil Young recorded the anti-Big Oil "Vampire Blues" for his brilliant album On the Beach in the mid-1970's, who could have known that the song would end up even more relevant a quarter century later?

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Without Higher Prices, Tar Sands Not Even Economically Sustainable

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, Oil Supply, China, Alberta, Alberta Tar Sands, Business News

The Alberta tar sands are not a new discovery. The only thing new about the tar sands is that they are now considered a commercially viable source of oil supply.

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Avatar Real-Life Parallel Found In Alberta Oilsands (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety Avatar Ad, Alberta, Alberta Tar Sands, Avatar Environment, Daily Variety, Avatar, Alberta Oilsands, Avatar Alberta, Video, Green News

Avatar's environmental message parallels reality more closely than we thought. According to a CBC report, the film's supervising art director closely ...

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A Latte Lover's Canadian Cold Turkey

Alex Matthews | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Alberta, South Africa, Espresso, Starbucks Coffee, Tim-Hortons, Coffee, Canada, Food, Healthy Living News

They. Don't. Have. Lattes. Had I landed on another planet? Had I crossed too many time zones and landed in the 1970s?

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Obama Should Tell Canada's Prime Minister No Thanks on Tar Sands Expansion

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tar-Sands-Oil, Alberta Tar Sands, Stephen Harper, Boreal Forest, Clean Cars, Alberta, Dirty Fuels, Canada, Green News

My hope is that Obama will not sign on to any joint statements that will help Harper ramp up tar sands production -- a process that accelerates global warming and denudes Canada's great boreal forest.

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