Endangered birds and threatened caribou victims of operations in the region

Last Sunday, Dec. 4, the weekly review/opinion section of The New York Times carried a sober and sobering piece by Robert Semple, a Times editorial writer who seldom gets to sign his pieces. He wrote of the climate meetings taking place this week in Durban, South Africa, where no one seems to think much progress will…

Petition asks U.S. Interior Dept. to investigate Canada’s failure to protect threatened caribou and migratory birds

Earthjustice petitions to compel analysis of threat to wildlife

Alberta, Canada is the site of an environmental catastrophe. Tar sands mining has created toxic tailings ponds that can be seen from space and plans have been made to strip away forests and peat lands in an area the size of Florida. Tar sands oil is not conventional crude—it requires as much as four times…

‘Alberta Clipper’ would bring Canadian tar sands crude to U.S.

Court challenge is being prepared to overturn decision