Category: Canada

U.S. State Department Doesn’t Know Exact Keystone XL Route

The U.S. government doesn’t know exactly where TransCanada wants to lay pipe for the northern section of its Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, according to …

July 9, 2013
Minnesota Communities Declare Independence from Frac-Sand Mining

In Minnesota, local governments are arguing strenuously to maintain local control over large-scale silica mining for fracking within their communities. Since the state …

July 9, 2013
Crude Oil Transport Train Explosion Incinerates Surrounding Neighborhoods

The inherent risks of transporting crude oil have once again been brutally and painfully exposed after a massive explosion in Quebec, Canada left part of an affected town looking like a war zone. At least five people died when a crude oil train …

July 8, 2013
The Toxic Legacy of Waste Injection Wells

According to ProPublica, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “has not counted the number of cases of waste migration or contamination in more than 20 years.”

July 5, 2013
The Best Tool to Combat Climate Change Is Nature

While calls are mounting for the need to rebuild and strengthen infrastructure such as dikes, storm-water management systems and stream-channel diversion projects, we’ve overlooked one of our best climate change-fighting tools: nature …

July 3, 2013