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Visiting a Boreal Village: Life Downstream from Tar Sands Oil

July 31, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
alberta, biogems, borealforest, canada, cancer, dirtyfuels, firstnation, peace-athabascadelta, tarsands

After I toured some of Alberta's tar sands oil operations last week, I traveled north to Fort Chipewyan, a small village in the Athabasca River Delta. The community is only 60 miles from tar sands central in Fort McMurray, but...continued

President Obama: Don’t Give Canadian Tar Sands a Free Climate Pass

February 18, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
alberta, borealforest, canada, cleanenergy, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, globalwarmingpollution, tarsands

Tomorrow President Obama is traveling to Canada. Most American presidents head to Ottawa on their first state visits, using the trip to our northern neighbor as an easy transition to the world stage. But this time, in addition to the...continued