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 | Shell backs out of oil sands project
Shell's decision could affect BP Whiting's ultimate fate, said Denny Larson, executive director of California-based Global Community Monitor, who has helped the Hammond-based Bucket Brigade protest BP Whiting's modernization. |
 | Syncrude ducks tar sands critics at its peril
The most infamous tailings pond on earth is in lockdown. No TV crews allowed, no reporters, no pictures -- nothing. You'd think Syncrude Canada had Chernobyl on its hands rather than a flock of dead ducks. |
 | Time to draw a line in the oil sands
Ontario is on the cusp of helping oil-sands emissions explode. Shell Canada wants permits to be granted by the end of this year for a new refinery in Sarnia to process oil from its oil-sands mines in Alberta for use in gas tanks across the GTA. |
 | Beyond Propaganda: Oil giant BP greenwashes Alberta tar sands
BP will soon begin extracting tar sands from the Canadian wilderness, a process Greenpeace calls 'the biggest environmental crime in history.' In 1997, after British Petroleum publicly acknowledged the harmful effects of global warming, it quickly became known as the oil company with environmental virtue
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 | Grabbing for oil: U.S. thirst powers push for Canada fuel
Breathe deeply, though, and you catch a whiff of fresh, hot tar. In the river, fish are speckled with shiny, wart-like blisters. And in the tiny Indian village of Fort Chipewyan, people are coming down with leukemia, bile duct cancer and other diseases. |
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