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Tar Sands

Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People

Oil companies have replaced Indigenous people’s traditional lands with mines that cover an area bigger than New York City, stripping away boreal forest and wetlands and rerouting waterways.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Jean L'Hommecourt visits a river near the Fort McKay First Nation's village about an hour's drive north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News
A sign is seen at Colonial Pipeline Baltimore Delivery in Baltimore, Maryland on May 10, 2021. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Biden’s Pipeline Dilemma: How to Build a Clean Energy Future While Shoring Up the Present’s Carbon-Intensive Infrastructure

By Marianne Lavelle

Jason Kenney was elected premier of Alberta. Credit: Keith Beaty/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Canada’s Tar Sands Province Elects a Combative New Leader Promising Oil & Pipeline Revival

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Alberta's tar sands are among the most carbon-intensive sources of oil. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Is This the Beginning of the End for Canada’s Tar Sands?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Demonstrators criticize Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his support from the oil industry using signs that read Crudeau Oil on a fake pipeline. Credit: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Oil Pipelines or Climate Action? Trudeau Walks a Political Tightrope

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Enbridge's Line 67 carries tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to Superior, Wisconsin. The Trump administration just approved a permit to nearly double its flow at the border. Credit: John W. Murray/CC-BY-NC-2.0

Tar Sands Pipeline Described as ‘a Quiet Keystone XL’ Gets Trump Approval

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Donald Trump in March

Canada's Climate Change Policies Keep Its Paris Commitments Out of Reach

By Phil McKenna

Exxon's tar sands projects have become a burden to its bottom line

Exxon Relents, Wipes Oil Sands Reserves From Its Books

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Rep. Fred Upton

Monday Showdown on Tar Sands Pipeline Bill

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

Rainbow Pipeline Spill

Oil Accidents Fuel Keystone Opposition

By Stacy Feldman, SolveClimate News

oil pipeline

Federal Memo: States Can Control Route of Keystone XL

By Elizabeth McGowan

Landowners Still Holding Out Against Keystone XL

By Elizabeth McGowan

Senators Assail Clinton Over Tar Sands Pipeline Comments

By Stacy Feldman

Nebraska Ranchers Fear Pipeline Talks Have Gone Awry

By Elizabeth McGowan

Some Nebraska Landowners Won't Make Way for Oil Sands Pipeline

by Elizabeth McGowan

Tribes in U.S. and Canada Opposing Oil Sands Pipeline

By Elizabeth McGowan

Pipeline Oversight Bill and First Nations in D.C.

By Elizabeth McGowan

Battle in Pacific Northwest over 800-Mile Route to Canada's Oil Sands Heats Up

By Stacy Feldman

In Nebraska, Oil Pipeline Builder Keeping Deal for Landowners Secret

By Elizabeth McGowan

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