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Why the Battle Over Canada's Tar Sands Is an American Issue

Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute. February 3, 2012.

For starters, the energy and environmental impacts of tar sands production are not limited to within the borders of Canada. But the trouble doesn't end there.

How Canada's Become a Home for Some of the Biggest Fracking Projects

Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica. December 30, 2011.

As furious debate over fracking continues in the United States, it is instructive to look at how a similar gas boom is unfolding for our neighbor to the north.

Tar Sands Fight Goes Beyond Keystone: A Little-Known Pipeline Plan Could Prove Disastrous for British Columbia

Eric Johnson, AlterNet. November 18, 2011.

An award-winning documentary offers a glimpse of a little-known pipeline plan -- and the paradise it threatens.

Indigenous Canadians Fight for the Tar Sands

YES! MagazineNovember 4, 2011.

Indigenous activist Clayton Thomas-Müller on the moral imperative to preserve Alberta's beauty for future generations.

A Climate-Killing Oil Pipeline May Make North America the New Middle East

Bill McKibben, TomDispatch.com. July 14, 2011.

Unless we can convince Obama to say no to the tar sands pipeline, we're going to be igniting a massive carbon bomb.

The Biggest Global Warming Crime in History

Cahal Milmo, Independent UK. December 13, 2007.

The Canadian wilderness is set to be invaded by BP in an oil exploration project dubbed 'the biggest global warming crime' in history.