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Tar sands

June 2024

  • A TransCanada Keystone pipeline facility

    Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis

    Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money

January 2024

  • tar sands

    Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds

    Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels

February 2023

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    Floodlight
    Major US railroad merger could bring more tar sands to south-east Texas

    $27bn deal would create first direct route from Canadian mines to Gulf coast, while another would ship controversial oil from Utah

December 2022

  • Emergency crews work to clean up the largest US crude oil spill in nearly a decade, following a leak at the Keystone pipeline operated by TC Energy in rural Washington county, Kansas.

    America's dirty divide
    Keystone pipeline raises concerns after third major spill in five years

    An investigation into the pipeline’s largest spill is under way in Kansas as a recent report points to a deteriorating safety record

September 2021

  • Low water levels mean rice harvesters can’t paddle their canoes to their traditional harvesting areas.

    ‘They screwed up our lake’: tar sands pipeline is sucking water from Minnesota watersheds

    The Anishinaabe people are rallying to save their lakes and their traditional wild rice harvests

June 2021

  • FILE PHOTO: Indigenous leaders participate in protest march and rally outside White House in Washington<br>FILE PHOTO: Indigenous leaders participate in a protest march and rally in opposition to the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines in front of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

    Owner cancels Keystone XL pipeline months after Biden revoked permit

    TC Energy halts project that faced longstanding opposition from climate campaigners

February 2021

  • Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau shake hands in 2016, when Biden was vice-president to Barack Obama.

    Joe Biden to meet Justin Trudeau of Canada after Keystone pipeline order

    Allies seek to turn page on strains of Donald Trump era but oil permit revocation and US goods order complicate picture

January 2021

  • Indigenous activists protest a Keystone construction site near the US-Canadian border in Montana, May, 2020.

    Biden killed the Keystone Pipeline. Good, but he doesn't get a climate pass just yet

    Nick Estes
  • Indigenous leaders protest against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines in front of the White House in March 2017

    Biden to cancel $9bn Keystone XL pipeline's permit, says source

July 2020

  • An aerial view of four vehicles in a barren mining landscape

    UK's biggest pension fund begins fossil fuels divestment

    National Employment Savings Trust to shun firms involved in coal, tar sands or arctic drilling

April 2020

  • Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s government has pledged $5bn in support for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline

    Polluter bailouts and lobbying during Covid-19 pandemic

    From tar sands oil to aviation, global business sectors have called for suspension of environmental protections
  • A judge has revoked a key permit for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, in a victory to tribes and environmentalists.

    Our unequal earth
    Major blow to Keystone XL pipeline as judge revokes key permit

    Campaigners welcomed Wednesday’s ruling as a victory for tribal rights and environmental protection
  • Bill McKibben

    Big Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone XL pipeline

    Bill McKibben
    The oil industry saw its opening and moved with breathtaking speed to take advantage of this moment

March 2020

  • Crude oil storage tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma.

    Oil price may fall to $10 a barrel as world runs out of storage space

    Facilities thought to be 75% full with Saudi Arabia due to ramp up output as demand falters amid coronavirus shutdowns

February 2020

  • FILE PHOTO: Visitors pass a logo of Teck Resources Ltd mining company during the PDAC convention in Toronto<br>FILE PHOTO: Visitors pass a logo of Teck Resources Ltd mining company during the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo

    Canadian mining giant withdraws plans for C$20bn tar sands project

    Teck Resources’ surprise decision drew outrage from politicians in oil-rich Alberta and cheers from environmental groups

December 2019

  • The Syncrude Oil Sands site near to Fort McMurray in Northern Alberta. Bitumen Oil Sands Tar Sands Oil refinery Canada Photograph by David Levene 22/4/15 *** FIRST USE INTENDED FOR POTENTIAL EYEWITNESS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SUZY GOLDENBERG ‘CARBON BOMB’ INTERACTIVE PLANNED FOR MID-MAY 2015***

    Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada's mega mine

    Tzeporah Berman
    Alberta’s oil sands produce one of the dirtiest oils on the planet. If the Teck mega mine is approved, the damage to our planet will be colossal

October 2019

  • Jonah Field gasfields in Wyoming, US.

    The polluters
    Top investment banks provide billions to expand fossil fuel industry

    Exclusive: analysis reveals lenders provided $700bn to expand sector since Paris climate pact

January 2019

  • Greenpeace stages an anti-tar sands pipelines protest at Barclays Bank in Piccadilly Circus

    Barclays on wrong side of history with climate policy, says Greenpeace

    Environmentalists attack rules that fail to ban funding oil projects linked to tar sands

December 2018

  • Greenpeace staged an anti-tar sands pipeplines protest at Barclays’ Bank in Piccadilly Circus today.

    Barclays customers in switch threat over tar sands investment

    Up to 30,000 account holders sign petition against pipeline projects in US and Canada

November 2018

  • The judge ordered TransCanada, the company behind the project, to halt work on Keystone while the US government conducts a more thorough review of its impact.

    Keystone XL pipeline: judge rules government 'jumped the gun' and orders halt

    District court judge Brian Morris rules Trump administration did not consider environmental consequences before pushing ahead
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