Aan oil spill from the Belle Fourche Pipeline that was discovered Dec. 5, 2016 in Ash Coulee Creek, a tributary of the Little Missouri River, near Belfield, N.D. Authorities say the pipeline spill is now believed to be one of the biggest in state history. (Scott Stockdill/North Dakota Department of Health via AP)

Companies Slated To Build Tar Sand Pipelines Have Spilled 63,000 Barrels Since 2010

Oil giants TransCanada, Kinder Morgan and Enbridge have together suffered 373 spills over the past seven years.

by Lawrence Carter and Tim Donaghy

‘Yeeeeehaw!’ Obama Administration Rejects Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline

Long-awaited decision comes after years of people-powered organizing.

‘Yeeeeehaw!’ Obama Administration Rejects Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline

The Obama administration has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, saying that to approve the project would have "undercut" U.S. climate goals and leadership.

"America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action on climate change," Obama said in remarks at the White House.

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Alberta Tar Sands Pollution Suspected In Rare Cancer Cases

As President Obama decides whether to veto the Keystone XL pipeline, evidence of disease in people and fish is found at its proposed source.

Alberta Tar Sands Pollution Suspected In Rare Cancer Cases

"Smokey" Ladouceur, whose family has been fishing in the area for decades, holds a deformed pickerel caught in Lake Athabasca. Photo: Daniel Grossman/The GroundTruth Project FORT CHIPEWYAN, Canada — In 2006, Canadian doctor John O’Connor made a startling realization. Specialists had

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Blockade At First Tar Sands Site In US Challenges ‘Brazen Disregard For Climate Crisis’

Happening now: Activists target construction at PR Spring tar sands site in Utah

Blockade At First Tar Sands Site In US Challenges ‘Brazen Disregard For Climate Crisis’

Scores of climate justice activists are staging a blockade on Monday to thwart construction of the first tar sands mine in the United States—a project they say will cause irreparable damage to water and land. According to a statement from Utah Tar Sands Resistance, roughly 80 people are involved in

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‘Big Oil Playbook’ On Display In Small Town Tar Sands Fight

Industry-backed opponents show up en masse at local meeting, forcing tar sands vote to be rescheduled.

‘Big Oil Playbook’ On Display In Small Town Tar Sands Fight

Exemplifying tactics outlined in a new report that dissects the oil industry's efforts to influence the tar sands debate, members of a Big Oil front group

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First Nations Vow: There Will Be No Tar Sands Pipeline

“We have drawn a line in the earth they cannot, and will not, cross,” said Chief Martin Louie of the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation.

There will be no tar sands pipeline. That is the message stressed by First Nations communities who say that even if Canada's Prime Minister Harper gives the federal OK to Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, First Nations law and their "responsibilities to future generations" will stop the project dead in its tracks. A federal decision on the

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‘Permanent Protest Vigil’ Launched To Confront First Tar Sands Mine In US

The project has faced ongoing resistance from environmental groups who have seen the devastating impacts the Alberta tar sands have brought to land, water and indigenous communities.

‘Permanent Protest Vigil’ Launched To Confront First Tar Sands Mine In US

As a Canadian company readies its plans for extraction at the first proposed tar sands mine in the United States, a group of climate justice activists is readying its own mobilization: a permanent protest vigil at the site to protest the project's "swift obliteration" of ecosystems, danger to waterways and contribution to the fossil fuel-driven

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