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Fact sheets
- Canada's Tar Sands: America's #1 source of oil has dangerous consequences
International Boreal Conservation Campaign - Canada's Tar Sands and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline: By the numbers
Boreal Songbird Initiative - Climate and Energy Issues: President Obama's visit to Ottawa
Greenpeace Canada - Don’t Support Dirty Fuels: Oil shale and tar sands are not
America’s energy answer
Natural Resources Defense Council - Fact or Fiction: Oil sands reclamation
Pembina Institute - The Most Destructive Project on Earth
Rainforest Action Network - Strip mining for oil in endangered forests
Natural Resources Defense Council - Tar Sands: indigenous people and the giga project
Indigenous Environmental Network
- What's in your tank? Dirty gasoline from tar sands?
EARTHWORKS
- La Fievre des Sables Bitumineux – French
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Letters
- U.S./Canada Climate Action Network letter to President Obama (02/18/09)
- Prominent Canadians letter to President Obama (02/18/09)
- Alberta conservation groups letter to President Obama (02/17/09)
- Environmental group letter to Canadian Environment Ministers opposing special treatment for tar sands at Whitehorse conference (02/13/09)
- WWF letter to President Obama (02/11/09)
- U.S. Council of Mayors letter to President Obama opposing high carbon fuels (02/10/09)
- Environmental group CEOs letter to President Obama
- Petition Letter to President Obama
Maps
- Tar sands illustrations and graphs
- Tar sands oil refineries and pipelines in the United States
- Carbon storage in Canada's Boreal forest
Reports
- 11 Million Litres a Day – The Tar Sands’ leaking legacy
Environmental Defence Canada - Canada’s Toxic Tar Sands: the most destructive project on earth
Environmental Defence Canada - Catching Up: conservation and biodiversity offsets in Alberta's Boreal forest
Canadian Boreal Initiative, Pembina Institute, Alberta Research Council - Danger in the Nursery: Impact on birds of tar sands oil development in Canada’s Boreal forest. Boreal Songbird Initiative, Natural Resources Defense Council, Pembina Institute
- A Dirty Little Secret: Canada's global warming engine
Polaris Institute - Driving It home: Choosing the right path for fueling North
America’s transportation future
Natural Resources Defense Council, Pembina Institute, Western Resource Advocates - Financing of fossil fuels and renewable energy by Canadian banks
Prepared for Rainforest Action Network by Profundo economic research - A study of water and sediment quality as related to public health issues in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. Prepared for the Nunee Health Board Society by Treeline Ecological Research
- Fueling Fortress America: a report on the Athabasca tar sands and U.S. demands for Canada's energy. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- The Government of Canada's Climate Policy: a backgrounder
Pembina Institute - Making it Real Checklist – Implementing Alberta's land-use framework
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Pembina Foundation -
Oil Sands Fever: the environmental implications of Canada's oil sands rush
Pembina Institute - Taming the Tempest – Alternative options for Alberta
Parkland Institute - Unconventional Oil: Scraping the bottom of the barrel?
WWF-UK - Under-Mining the Environment: the oil sands report card
Pembina Institute, WWF-Canada - Upgrader Alley: oil sands fever strikes Edmonton
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