Oil sands cover Thornhill MP’s riding
Source: http://www.yorkregion.com/news/article/935725--oil-sands-cover-thornhill-mp-s-riding Date published: Fri, 2011-01-28 Can you picture Thornhill, Ontario, swallowed up by Alberta’s oil sands?...
View ArticleArtists’ group wants NAC to drop Enbridge as corporate sponsor of Prairie...
Author: By Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen Source: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/index.html Date published: Thu, 2011-01-27 OTTAWA — Artists from Manitoba and Saskatchewan want the National Arts...
View ArticleAction Alert: Save Castle Special Place
2011-02-23Action Deadline: Mon, 2011-03-14 (All day)ACTION CHECKLIST Write a short letter to Premier Stelmach.read more
View ArticleReport concludes oilsands pollution monitoring is inadequate
Author: Jason Fekete, Postmedia News Source: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Report+concludes+oilsands+pollution+monitoring+inadequate/4412793/story.html Date published: Thu, 2011-03-10 CALGARY...
View ArticleRELEASE: Thumbs-up to Wildland Park for Castle; Plans for logging it...
Calgary & Lethbridge: A vast majority of residents living around the Castle Special Place favor creation of a Wildland Park there and oppose logging inside it, a new survey by The Praxis Group of...
View ArticleACTION ALERT! The Lower Athabasca Region cannot be a sacrifice zone for...
2011-05-05Action Deadline: Mon, 2011-06-06 (All day)Tell the Alberta government the Athabasca Region deserves better! Just before the Federal Election, the Alberta government released a draft of the...
View ArticleRevised Draft of Lower Athabasca Regional Plan highlights Alberta’s Cavalier...
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Help Save Alberta’s Woodland Caribou
UPDATE: Thanks for howling with the wolves!Dear Friend,At Sierra Club Canada, we’ve been working to protect the woodland caribou for over a decade – but a recent decision by the Alberta government is a...
View ArticleKilling Wolves: A Product of Alberta’s Big Oil and Gas Boom
YALE Environment 306 2011-10-28<h1> Killing Wolves: A Product of<br /> Alberta’s Big Oil and Gas Boom</h1><h2 class="dek"><em>The development of the tar sands...
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Environmental groups disappointed with Canada’s Recovery Strategy for Boreal...
Environment Canada is accepting public comments until February 22, 2012, before finalizing the Recovery Strategy. By: Alys Granadosread more
View ArticleAlbertan's On The Hook for Reclamation Debt
Media Comment Following the Oilsands Reclamation Research News Conference at the University of Alberta, Sierra Club Prairie offers the below comment from Executive Director Chelsea Flook:" This report...
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Canada Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data Suggests Country Might Miss Goal
Author: David Ljunggren Source: Reuters Date published: Fri, 2012-04-13OTTAWA, April 11 (Reuters) - Although Canada's output of greenhouse gases was almost unchanged in 2010 from 2009, the major oil...
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#BlackOutSpeakOut Ottawa Teach-in May 30th
Dear Friends,It has been a busy few weeks here in Ottawa and across the country. People everywhere are talking about devastating changes to environmental law and regulation (Canadian Environmental...
View ArticleUPDATE: #BlackOutSpeakOut Events
Media Release, May 29, 2012 #BlackOutSpeakOut UpdateWe are just a week away from #BlackOutSpeakOut day (June 4th). I can tell you the campaign momentum is building! The list of participating...
View ArticleSierra Club Canada - Submission to the Senate Committee on Energy (Re: C-38)
May 31, 2012 Submission to the Senate Committee on EnergyRe: Bill C-38John Bennett, Executive DirectorSierra Club CanadaThursday, May 31 201 read more
View ArticleOntario Government Abandons Endangered Species
Environmentalists decry Cabinet decision to gut law protecting imperilled wildlife Toronto, May 31, 2013 – The provincial Cabinet announced today its approval of sweeping exemptions for industry under...
View ArticleDebate over changes to Ontario's Endangered Species Act
Author: John Kapel Source: CBC Radio Sudbury Date published: Wed, 2013-06-05We had John Kapel, owner of Little John Sawmill in Timmins and Dan McDermott, the Ontario Director of Sierra Club, discuss...
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Shame on Ontario for undermining protection for species at risk: Editorial
Ontario industries no longer have to work as hard to protect vulnerable creatures under new environmental rules. Author: Op-ed Source: The Toronto Star Date published: Sat, 2013-06-08Tony Bock /...
View ArticleCaribou - An Endangered Species
As Canadians we understand the need to protect wild spaces and the creatures that reside within them. The United States is considering opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas...
View ArticleACTION ALERT: Sign up for the upcoming Shell hearings as an interested party!
2012-06-12Action Deadline: Thu, 2012-03-08 02:00Local residents and aboriginal groups are being given a chance to ask questions and comment on an oilsands expansion north of Fort McMurray. Sign up as...
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