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Today the Pembina Institute, the Toxics Watch Society of Alberta and
the Fort McMurray Environmental Association formally withdrew
from the Cumulative Environmental Management Association.
Media Contact: Chris Severson-Baker, Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
Today the Government of Alberta announced that it would spend $4 billion to address climate change.
Media Contact: Dan Woynillowicz
Topic Area: Oil Sands
The Energy Resources Conservation Board released a draft policy today that highlights a 40-year history of inadequate tailings management at oil sands mining operations in the boreal forest north of Fort McMurray.
Media Contact: Jennifer Grant, Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
The first ever report to provide an in-depth look at the environmental
impacts of upgrading oil sands bitumen in the Edmonton region was
released by the Pembina Institute today.
Media Contact: Mary Griffiths, Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
In an effort to prevent irreversible decline of species and
biodiversity in Alberta's Boreal Forest, industry can take important
steps to offset their environmental impacts.
Media Contact: Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands

A comprehensive new report by the Pembina Institute has found that after 41 years of oil sands mining operations in northern Alberta only 0.2% or one square kilometer of disturbed land is certified as reclaimed.
Media Contact: Jennifer Grant, Dan Woynillowicz, Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
The report of the re-convened Joint Review Panel assessing Imperial
Oil's Kearl Oil Sands Project is evasive, convoluted and fails to
answer the questions directed to it by the Federal Court of Canada says
a coalition of environmental groups that initiated the court challenge.
Media Contact: Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
Environmental groups are headed back to court tomorrow to defend a
precedent-setting court victory that has drawn further attention to the
massive environmental impacts of Alberta's booming tar sands.
Media Contact: Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
On April 30 the Government of Alberta announced the results of the
first year of its targets to reduce industrial greenhouse gas
"intensity." The preliminary results indicate that only about half of the mandatory reductions were actually achieved.
Media Contact: Dan Woynillowicz
Topic Area: Oil Sands
The Government of Alberta has dismissed an unprecedented call from
industry, aboriginal groups and environmental organizations to pause
oil sands land sales in the Fort McMurray region.
Media Contact: Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
The Pembina Institute filed a request under Alberta's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to obtain the Department of Energy's analysis of the "unintended consequences" of the New Royalty Framework.
Media Contact: Amy Taylor
Topic Area: Oil Sands