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A dizzying bird’s-eye view of Alberta’s oilsands
It’s the largest bitumen deposit in the world. Mining there is visible from space. And for many Canadians, the oilsands are still completely unseen.
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Massive oil spill distorts Kansas couple's confidence in the integrity of Keystone pipeline
Bill and Chris Pannbacker, who farm Washington County land tainted by an oil pipeline break in December, are anxious about potential of another rupture.
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Trudeau’s pipeline scandal
Shameless spin can’t excuse the burgeoning boondoggle and ‘global warming machine’ called TMX.
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Life and death near oilsands in Fort Chipewyan
A photographer spent years documenti communities downstream of Alberta’s oilsands. Then he was invited to join Warren Simpson, dying from a rare form of cancer he believed to be linked to the mines, for his last breaths
The deep toll of tar sands on Canada's Indigenous people
Oil companies have replaced First Nation's traditional lands with vast mines, stripping away boreal forest and wetlands.
Alberta's carbon revolution
Alex Walk was captivated. He had flown to Edmonton because he had heard that Alberta researchers might have found the Holy Grail of materials manufacturing: a cheap feedstock for carbon fibre.
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After climate-protection drift and despair, a blueprint for success emerges in Cascadia
Washington state's redoubled climate goals and fresh action plan revive hope to cut emissions. But ongoing fossil fuel development in BC could undercut Cascadia's progress.
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