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$25 million to paint a tar sands black hole green?

April 29, 2008

Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

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alberta, borealforest, canada, oilsands, tarsands

Canada has sent its fourth delegation in so many months to Washington D.C. to convince Americans that there is no need to worry about the tar sands oil extraction in northern Alberta.  This barrage of visits reminds me of when a colleague...continued→

One tar sands project = 800,000 cars = significant, Canadian Court says

March 6, 2008

Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
alberta, canadianfederalcourt, ecojustice, globalwarming, kearlproject, oilsands, tarsands

Yesterday, our Canadian colleagues won a landmark tar sands case. The Canadian Federal Court found that there were gaping holes in the environmental assessment of a huge tar sands project that would strip mine the Boreal forest for oil. The Kearl...continued→

Liz Barratt-Brown
Liz Barratt-Brown
Senior Attorney
Washington, DC
I came to NRDC in 1981 and have worked with NRDC’s International Program for the...
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