What is the highest environmental impact oil?
Mining vs. In Situ provides an initial, much-needed comparison of the environmental impacts of oil sands mining and in situ extraction.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Energy Watch, Oil Sands
In Situ Oil Sands Report Card
Drilling Deeper provides a first-of-its-kind analysis of the environmental performance of in situ oil sands by comparing nine operational facilities.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Oil Sands
Drilling Deeper: The In Situ Oil Sands Report Card
In Situ Oil Sands Report Card
Drilling Deeper provides a first-of-its-kind analysis of the environmental performance of in situ oil sands by comparing nine operational facilities.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Energy Watch, Oil Sands
In Situ Oil Sands Report Best Practices Checklist
In Situ Best Practices Checklist
Based on the in situ oil sands report card, this best practices checklist shows how industry can improve environmental performance.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Energy Watch, Oil Sands
In the wake of the release of its report, Opening the Door for Oil Sands Expansion: The Hidden Environmental Impacts of the Enbridge Gateway Pipeline, the Pembina Institute wrote this letter to Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, and Peter Sylvester, president of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. In the letter, Pembina calls on the government to amend the terms of reference for the environmental assessment to include the upstream impacts of the proposed pipeline.
Opening the Door to Oil Sands Expansion
The Hidden Environmental Impacts of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline
The proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project will facilitate the expansion of the Alberta oil sands, causing significant environmental impacts.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Oil Sands, British Columbia: Other, Climate Change: Provincial and Territorial Action
Opening the Door to Oil Sands Expansion: Fact Sheet
The Enbridge Oil Sands Pipeline
The proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project will facilitate the expansion of the Alberta oil sands, causing significant environmental impacts.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Oil Sands, British Columbia: Climate Change, Climate Change: Provincial and Territorial Action
This document provides background information about tailings and about Directive 074: Tailings Performance Criteria and Requirements for Oil Sands Mining Schemes.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Environmental Governance, Energy Watch, Oil Sands, Athabasca River
An Assessment of Oil Sands Company Submissions for Compliance with ERCB Directive 074
A comprehensive review conducted by the Pembina Institute and Water Matters found that only two oil sands operations reported they would meet new rules to reduce toxic tailings.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Environmental Governance, Energy Watch, Oil Sands, Athabasca River
Joint statement from an industry–environmental organization partnership that outlines the key elements for an effective Canadian cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions.
Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations
Topic Areas: Sustainable Energy, Energy Watch, Climate Change: Carbon Pricing, Climate Change: Federal Action
Pipelines and Salmon in Northern British Columbia
Potential Impacts
Four major pipeline projects have been proposed for northern British Columbia over the next five years, including the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project. All of the proposed pipelines would cross and at times run parallel to important salmon habitats in the Upper Fraser, Skeena and Kitimat watersheds.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Energy Watch, Oil Sands, British Columbia: Other
Four major pipeline projects have been proposed for northern British Columbia over the next five years, including the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project. This fact sheet highlights the importance of salmon in northern British Columbia and gives an overview of the risks posed to salmon by the Enbridge oil sands pipelines.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Energy Watch, Oil Sands, British Columbia: Other
An Alberta court decision that permits the Energy Resource Conservation Board (ERCB) to ignore Royal Dutch Shell's breach of written agreements made to obtain regulatory approval signals a likely end to collaborative approaches in the oil sands. Ecojustice, on behalf of the Pembina Institute and the Toxics Watch Society of Alberta, was denied Leave to Appeal the ERCB’s decision to uphold the approvals for two of Shell oil sands projects, even though the ERCB acknowledged Shell had broken written agreements to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Oil Sands
Preventing Oil Sands Fever in Saskatchewan
The oil sands in Saskatchewan could hold as much as 2.3 billion barrels of bitumen, and cover an area of 27,000 square kilometres. Development of oil sands is still in its early stages in Saskatchewan, so there is still an opportunity to do things properly and avoid the mistakes in Alberta.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Oil Sands, Climate Change: Provincial and Territorial Action
Preventing Oil Sands Fever in Saskatchewan
The oil sands in Saskatchewan could hold as much as 2.3 billion barrels of bitumen, and cover an area of 27,000 square kilometres. Development of oil sands is still in its early stages in Saskatchewan, so there is still an opportunity to do things properly and avoid the mistakes in Alberta.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Oil Sands, Climate Change: Provincial and Territorial Action
The Oil Sands Myths guide provides concise, referenced information on oil sands environmental impacts and management. An overview slide show is also available.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Energy Watch, Oil Sands, Athabasca River
This slideshow identifies a growing body of oil sands “spin” from federal and Alberta politicians and the oil sands industry and counters them with the plain facts about oil sands impacts.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Climate Change: Other Issues, Energy Watch, Oil Sands, Athabasca River
A letter sent to Canadian and U.S. politicians alerting them to the availability of a new Pembina Institute resource that provides clear, factual information on the environmental impacts of Canada’s oil sands development.
Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations
Topic Areas: Oil Sands
The Pembina Institute's submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development Hearings, also known as the Oil and Water Hearings.
Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations
Topic Areas: Oil Sands, Athabasca River
A Growing Toxic Legacy for Canada
Simon Dyer, the Pembina Institute's Oil Sands Program Director, presented on the impact of oil sands development on water resources as part of the Pembina Institute's submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development Hearings (also known as the Oil and Water Hearings).
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Areas: Oil Sands, Athabasca River