A proposal to more than double a pipeline from Canada’s oil sands to tanker terminals in Burnaby, British Columbia, and Anacortes and Ferndale, Washington, is drawing fire from Fir...

A First Nation whose land sits in the heart of the Alberta oil sands has ramped up its legal battle against the vast industrial development, which has generated controversy because...

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The federal government has not only slashed the health budgets of several aboriginal-focused organizations but also has revamped the environmental assessment process in order to fa...

Achuar leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are protesting oil exploration in their territory have won the support of Canadian non-governmental organizations and political parties,...

They live thousands of miles from the oil sands of Canada’s north, but their refrain is familiar...

As hearings continue over the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Canadian government is accusing its opponents of being beholden to foreign influence...

The number of black bears killed by Canadian Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers near the Alberta tar sands nearly tripled to 145 in 2011 as compared to the 2010 total...

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If you can imagine the bleak landscape of the moon, you can envision the desolate, 54,000-square-mile tar sands of northern Alberta, a focus of controversy and concern in Canada, t...