For many people this would be a no-brainer – but the billions being poured into dirty oil in Canada’s tar sands could be spent on clean energy instead to help decarbonise western economies. Or it could be spent on clean water to help the poor live.
In their new report, the Co-op and WWF say the [...]

For all you romantic film-buffs out there, this week-end’s Oscars is a fight between an ex-husband and wife partnership: James Cameron’s Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt locker.
Those rooting for Avatar include a collation of 50 Indigenous and environmental groups who yesterday ran a great advert in the celebrity magazine Variety.
Called ‘Canada’s Avatar Sands,’ the [...]

Earlier in the week I blogged about how British banks were under fire for their investment in the tar sands.
But they are not the only ones. There are also home-grown banks investing in the destruction of their own country.
Yesterday, over 170 people rallied outside of the Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC’s) Annual General Shareholder meeting [...]

Tens of millions of people watched the glittering closing ceremony last night as the Winter Olympics drew to a close in Vancouver.
To cap off the games, Canada was celebrating a record number of gold medals and a prized win over the Americans in ice hockey. It was a perfect ending to the Olympics and a [...]

One of the unseen consequences of the lower gas prices in North America is that it is actually making it cheaper to extract the tar sands.
And that in turn is giving tar sands operators the confidence to expand production. So bizarrely cheap cleaner gas is fuelling the exploitation of the dirty tar sands.