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Alberta tar sands

Canada approves a new plan for a pipeline to bring oil from Alberta’s tar sands to British Columbia

Environment

Canada’s federal government recently approved energy company Enbridge’s proposed pipeline to bring Tar Sands oil from Alberta to Canada’s West Coast. But the coastal First Nations strongly oppose the plan, and the British Columbia premier has yet to agree. Canada’s federal government recently approved energy company Enbridge’s proposed pipeline to bring Tar Sands oil from Alberta to Canada’s West Coast. But the coastal First Nations strongly oppose the plan, and the British Columbia premier has yet to agree.

Obama travels to Cushing, Okla., to announce his support for part of Keystone XL pipeline

Environment

Natural gas boom may be making people sick

Health & Medicine

‘Living on Earth: Liability Crosses Borders’

Environment

Human Rights Watch Alleges Mexican Security Forces Involved in Disappearances

Global Politics
The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota.

Pipeline Troubles

Global Politics

Anchor Aaron Schachter talks with The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson about an oil spill that may have big consequences for a plan to pump oil from Alberta to the Pacific Ocean, and play into the fight over the Keystone oil pipeline in the US.

The World

BlackBerry service disruption continues for third day

Business, Economics and Jobs

For the third day, millions of BlackBerry users around the world have been unable to use messaging and browsing services. The BBC’s Rory Clellan Jones has the latest on the story.

Noisy Cloister For Rent

– Last December, we brought you the story of the Nova Nada Carmelite Hermitage, near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The Hermitage is cloistered in a forest near the lands of the giant timber holdings of the J.D. Irving Company , and the chainsaws disrupt the silence that is central to their contemplative way of life. So […]

The Importance of Blackberries

Why use a Blackberry if you can pick blackberries ?the fruit, that is.

Central Park Drilling