Lubicon say Alberta ignoring oil spill health concerns
The Lubicon Cree say the Alberta government has done little since 28,000 barrels of crude oil spilled from a broken pipeline onto lands claimed by the First Nations community.
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Oil spill threatens Lubicon
There are growing fears about the extent of a massive oil spill from a pipeline in northern Alberta.
Alberta eyes tar sands boom
One of the world’s largest oil companies says they are running out of oil.
Alberta tar sands panel faces first defection
The Alberta government’s newly appointed tar sands panel is only a few days old, but one of its members has already quit.
Suncor admits guilt, fined $200,000 for polluting river
Suncor Energy Inc. was fined $200,000 after pleading guilty Tuesday to polluting the Steepbank River north of Fort McMurray, Alta.
Guilty pleas in Greenpeace Shell protest
A protest against the tar sands has ended in convictions against a group of activists.
Tar sands sucking Athabasca dry
Elders and representatives of two northern Alberta First Nations were in Edmonton to decry low water levels in the Athabasca watershed.
Beaver Lake Cree Nation battling oil giants
Less than two months after the chief of Beaver Lake Cree Nation filed a motion in Federal court to halt new oil and gas developments on their traditional territory, oil giants BP and Husky Energy announced a plan to do just that.
Hundreds of dead birds in tar sands tailings pond
Just days after agreeing to pay the largest penalty in Alberta’s environmental history, Syncrude is once again apologizing for the deaths of migratory birds on one of their tailings ponds.