Shell tar sands project would harm land, water and First Nation rights but review panel rubber stamps it anyway Late yesterday, while the nation was still reeling from the Lac Megantic tragedy, the Joint Review Panel announced its ...

An Oily Cover-up: The tar sands spill that keeps on spilling. Reading the Alberta government’s new energy regulator (AER)  first  and  second  release about the tar sands spill at Cold Lake one gets the sense that a spill happened...

ALBERTA: A SPILL FILLED SUMMER: It’s been another spill-filled summer in the spill-prone province of Alberta. With Alberta averaging over two oil spills a day over the past 37 years , there are many spills that we don’t know...

Right now in Alberta, tar sands bitumen is spilling into the environment at four different sites , one directly underneath a lake. All four spills have been spilling for months and the Alberta and Canadian governments know all about...

Harper needs to act on Rail Safety Yesterday I tried to drive to Gainford. I wanted to try to assess for myself how much damage had been done because of the latest train derailment disaster. 13 rail cars – four laden with...

Alberta’s Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013 Alberta has had another tough year when it comes to protecting the environment, but a year that has also shown that the resistance to environmental disasters is alive and well. ...

When I first learned that Neil Young was going to put on four shows to help the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and their legal battles against the damage the tar sands pose, I was excited. Young has always tried to...

To say that rock legend Neil Young has been making waves on his ACFN ‘ Honour the Treaties ’ tour would be an understatement. His comments about the horrors of the tar sands have made front-page headlines, set social media ablaze, and...

There comes a time when you need to take a stand, when the processes that were designed to protect us have so broken down that we have no choice but to do so. That is quickly becoming the case with Enbridge’s Northern Gateway tar sands...