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In Alberta and British Columbia, regional authories have passed regs to allow more intensive drilling. The result: a string of record-breaking fracks.
Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp....
Dec 28, 2011 | Read More
Tar sands mining at the edge of the Canadian boreal forest.
In the run-up to a key European vote Friday that could designate tar sands crude as dirtier, the UK has been secretly helping Canada fight the standard.
The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Canada's campaign...
Nov 28, 2011 | Read More
Lambton coal-fired generating station in Ontario, Canada
Environment Minister Peter Kent said new regulations will force coal developers to reduce emissions to levels that are comparable to gas-fired plants
CALGARY, Alberta—Canada moved ahead on Friday with new regulations for cutting emissions from...
Aug 19, 2011 | Read More
Ed Stelmach, the Premier of Alberta
U.S. watchdogs fear the plan could tilt the State Department to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline
WASHINGTON—Any day now, the Alberta government is expected to release its final version of a long-...
Jul 21, 2011 | Read More
A polar bear in Hudson Bay
Sea ice volume in the bay will decrease 31% by the 2040s, new research shows, with implications for species survival and new oil industry exploration
Rapidly thinning sea ice on Canada's Hudson Bay will trigger a fast rate of species loss and open...
May 13, 2011 | Read More
Map of Canada's boreal forest
'What you're really looking at here is cumulative development. In a sense, death by a thousand cuts'
The Pew Environment Group released a report earlier this month urging protection of the Canadian...
Mar 29, 2011 | Read More
oil sands mining Sunco
An Alberta government-sponsored scientific panel has backed claims that oil sands development is polluting waterways, and urges more stringent monitoring
CALGARY, ALBERTA—A government-sponsored scientific committee studying water monitoring in Canada...
Mar 10, 2011 | Read More
Syncrude's Mildred Lake plant
Government and oil sands industry finally agree with environmentalists on need to rigorously measure the full impact of oil sands development
FT. MCMURRAY, ALBERTA—For years, Alberta's government has been under fire for weak monitoring of...
Feb 25, 2011 | Read More
Syncrude oil sands mining
Cutting steam from the mining process could slice emissions, but the new process may not be ready in time to matter
WASHINGTON—In their Canadian laboratories, engineering professors Murray Gray and Zhenghe Xu can...
Jan 24, 2011 | Read More
mining equipment
A leading oil sands lender adopts policy language considered the gold standard for protecting rights of indigenous peoples, but is it just rhetoric?
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) — one of the world's biggest financiers of Canadian oil sands — has...
Jan 6, 2011 | Read More