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Oil company ordered to drain lake to deal with on-going tar sands spills

Blog entry by Mike Hudema | September 26, 2013

There are some things in life you think are permanent. For me lakes are on that list. While lakes will move somewhat over time they are often pillars in our history. I remember the lake I went to almost every summer as a child, the one...

An Oily Cover-up: The tar sands spill that keeps on spilling.

Blog entry by mhudema | July 20, 2013 1 comment

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...

Tar Sands spills – 1,528,996.71 litres and still spilling!!

Blog entry by Mike Hudema | September 19, 2013

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...

One down, one to go: Stop CNRL from adding to Cold Lake tar sands damage

Blog entry by mhudema | March 12, 2014

Please sign and share the petition!   Just two days after you helped secure the denial of CNRL’s application to re-start operations at the site of its four on-going, tar sands blow-outs , Greenpeace has learned that CNRL filed...

21 groups petition AER to reject CNRL's second application at troubled Primrose...

Blog entry by mhudema | March 14, 2014

Today 21-groups, representing a range of interests, sent an open letter to Alberta's Energy Regulator (AER) demanding that they turn down CNRL's most recent application to begin high pressure steaming it's beleaguered Primrose tar...

Please Donate and Help Stop CNRL from adding to Tarsands Damage

Blog entry by mhudema | March 31, 2014

On Friday, a coalition of First Nation and settler groups living along the Athabasca River called Keepers of the Athabasca launched a unique fundraising campaign . Graphic by Chelsea Flook Help send a message to CNRL...

Corporate executives could be personally liable for undermining action on climate change

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | May 28, 2014 4 comments

Greenpeace is putting the corporate executives of major fossil fuel companies on notice that they could face personal liability for funding climate denialism and opposing policies to fight climate change. Together with WWF and the...

Nine months and still spilling: A recap of the on-going Cold Lake tar sands spills

Blog entry by mhudema | February 12, 2014 1 comment

It’s been almost nine months. You can do a lot in nine months. In nine months you can make and give birth to a baby. For Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL), all they’ve done at their Cold Lake tar sands in-situ site is spill...

Alberta Energy Regulator approves CNRL re-start in troubled tar sands region

Blog entry by Mike Hudema | April 23, 2014 1 comment

If anyone thought that there was a changing of the guard at the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) they should look no further than the decision it quietly released just before the Easter long weekend. The decision shows that whatever...

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