Tar Sands

<h2>Investing in Addiction to Oil</h2>
<p>International banks and investors are pouring billions of dollars into expansion of the Canadian tar sands, the dirtiest and most desperate attempt yet to profit from and prolong our crippling addiction to oil.</p>

What are the Tar Sands?

Tar sands oil is the worst type of oil for the climate, producing three times the greenhouse gas emissions of conventionally produced oil because of the energy required to extract and process tar sands oil.

Rainforest Action Network Statement in Response to President's Keystone XL Delay

Release Date: 
Thursday, November 10, 2011

WASHINGTON—Today, the Obama Administration requested a 12-18 month review for the Keystone XL pipeline, dealing the project a critical, and potentially fatal, blow. The controversial project has seen rising opposition from landowners and environmentalists including a 12,000-person protest at the White House just last Sunday.

Rainforest Action Network Executive Director, Rebecca Tarbotton, issued the following response:

Yes we can—stop the Keystone XL pipeline

One day in early September, some dozen Democratic activists showed up at the Washington state headquarters of Obama for America, the President’s re-election campaign organization in Seattle. They cornered the state director, Dustin Lambro, and called on the President to block TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would bring crude oil from the Alberta oil sands through the U.S. Midwest to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas, potentially doubling exports of oil sands crude to the U.S. “It’s not an issue I know much about,” Lambro said. So the activists gave him an earful.

Yes we can—stop the Keystone XL pipeline
Macleans
Monday, October 3, 2011
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