The European Commission has scrapped plans to label tar sands oil as ‘highly polluting’ after years of lobbying from the Canadian government and the industry, in...
A new study published in the journal Nature has found greenhouse gas emissions caused by the controversial Keystone XL pipeline could be much higher than originally...
Environmentalists from across the US have welcomed the decision made by the council of South Portland in Maine, US, to block exports of controversial Canadian tar...
The 1,177-km (731-mile) Northern Gateway pipeline project, which will carry tar sands oil from Alberta to the Pacific coast in Canada, has been approved by the...
The first large-scale shipment of highly polluting tar sands oil from Canada is said to have arrived in Spain last week. The 570,000-barrel Western Canada Select...
Campaigners from the divestment movement in Canada are pushing for investors to ditch their high-carbon energy stocks because of their impact on climate change. Activists want...
Dutch bank Rabobank has announced it will not lend money to businesses that deal with unconventional energy extraction, including shale gas, because of the environmental and...