Articles related to "Alberta Tar Sands"

This article explores the less recognized costs of extracting oil in northern Alberta, from water pollution to increases in cancer and other diseases.

The Alberta tar sands have created lakes of industrial mining waste, destruction of Alberta's boreal forest and are the fastest growing source of GHG emissions in Canada.

A government with its political base in oil-producing provinces is reluctant to get serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite the global economic downturn, Toronto International Film Festival management announces strong sales coming out of 2009 Film Festival.

This article examines the current viability of the main technologies - biofuels, hydrogen & non-conventional oil - capable of replacing oil as the fuel for transportation