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How can we build an energy bridge to the future?

The oil sands. That’s the picture we are looking at today, more toxic pollution, more foreign control, more climate damage. But is it the picture of tomorrow?

New Study: Kochs Could Make $100 Billion on Keystone XL Pipeline Deal

A new study released today concludes that Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is given the go-ahead by U.S...

Greenpeace Comes "Home" to Protest a Short-Sighted Pipeline Project

Members of Greenpeace were back in Vancouver today where the famed (infamous?) organization started more than 40 years ago as a small ragtag group of people trying to stop nuclear testing in the...

Shell Canada president dodges crucial questions on environment

Reporters' questions to the Shell Canada president about the environment were met with positive but vague statements.

Gay, and in love...with Fort McMurray

Young, gay and loving Fort McMurray, Jeremy Irla's promoting Canada's oil boom town, yet embracing a spirituality that reveres nature. You try and figure him out...

Kinder Morgan pummeled on oil spill risks at North Van meeting

There were heated questions about oil spill preparedness and what was in it for North Vancouver

CAPP-funded Energy IQ project to tour Canadian schools this fall

New educational site features information on oil and energy, some of it near-identical to an oil sands PR website.

CNRL Cold Lake bitumen spill continues

“There is still bitumen coming up from the ground," a regulator says, despite company claims that the leak is under control.

New Report: Less than 1-percent of Tar Sands Environmental Infractions Penalized

When it comes to environmental protection, we suck and the whole world is starting to figure it out.