Activists train to protest oilsands growth

-Edmonton Journal
Twenty aspiring activists received a lesson on how to create a human blockade by intertwining arms and legs as part of a weekend oilsands protest training conference here.
The class was one of many seminars offered as part of the conference hosted by such organizations as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club Canada and the Council of [...]

Syncrude faces prosecution for duck deaths in tar sands

By Colleen Kimmett, thetyee.ca
An Alberta resident, backed by environmental group Ecojustice, is prosecuting tar sands developer Syncrude Canada for the death of hundreds of migrating birds last spring.
News reports of the incident, in which a flock of nearly 500 ducks died in the sludge of a tailings pond, were widely publicized in national and international [...]

Ft. Chip residents, activists protest oilsands intrusion

Clara Ho, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Sunday, November 02
Mike Mercredi is ready to fight what he calls the “slow industrial genocide” that oil companies are waging on the people in his hometown of Fort Chipewyan.
Last year there were over 20 deaths in the community of 1,200 people. Many were cancer-related deaths, which Mercredi said are linked [...]

Action Alert: Stop U.S. Company from Importing Crude from Tar Sands

(There are several different ways that people protest the tar sands in Alberta. One is to demand that the oil companies cease their highly destructive extraction immediately. A more mainstream, liberal reformist approach is to demand that crude tar, like raw logs, not be exported from Canada; that processing happen here in order to create [...]

B.C. sour gas pipeline bombed

RCMP say bomb placed along EnCana pipeline
JOSH WINGROVE, Globe and Mail Update
A hunter discovered a two-metre-wide crater underneath a British Columbia pipeline Sunday that RCMP believe was caused by a bomb.
The blast was discovered early Sunday morning under an EnCana sour gas pipeline in Northeastern B.C., east of Dawson Creek near the Alberta border, RCMP [...]

Tar Sands Processing requires massive inputs of water, energy, land, labour

December 31, 2007
What the Tar Sands Need
Processing requires massive inputs of water, energy, land, labour
by Dru Oja Jay
The Dominion – http://www.dominionpaper.ca
Water
For each barrel of oil produced from the tar sands, between two and 4.5 barrels of water is needed. The water is used in the process of extracting bitumen from the naturally occurring the [...]