Most Endangered Rivers

To read the headlines one would think that oil is the world’s most important resource. Everything revolves around oil production and prices – the cost of food, the value of the dollar and the prevalence of war are all intertwined with oil. Our lives have become too dependent on the continuing flow of black gold. Un...

Offshore Oil Update

In a mixed bag of news for opponents of offshore oil drilling, the U.S. Senate recently rejected a bill that would have expanded offshore drilling projects bu...

Oil Spills and Oil Tankers

While most of the world has been watching the recent fluctuations in oil prices due to unrest in Libya and the Middle East, many Canadians are raising al...

BP Funding for Gulf Restoration

One year after oil started gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, British Petroleum (BP) has finally announced it will provide a $ 1 billion down payment to...

Bird Deaths by Oil Platforms

There are slightly more than 9,700 species of birds in the world, but like many animals, their existence is in jeopardy. Human activity and development ha...

Reducing Our Oil Addiction

In recent months, whether due to unrest in oil-producing countries, new revelations in the climate change sphere, or the itchy fingers of nervous traders, North Americans and other Western nations are reminded of their dependency upon oil. Many people wa...

Oil and Virunga National Park

It’s not very often that we hear good news about the mountain gorillas, but recently the Congo government blocked a UK company’s (Soco) bid to drill for oil in Virunga National Park, reports WWF.  Rejecting the company’s analysis, the Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism declared that his department will do their own environmenta...

New Arctic Conservation Area

Just days before the United Nations climate change meetings in Cancun Mexico, the Canadian federal government announced a plan to designate an area north of Nunavut’s Baffin Island as a marine conservation area, reports The Globe & Mail.  This are...

Wasted Energy

The energy embedded in the production of food that ends up being wasted in the U.S. could save the equivalent of about 350 million barrels of oil a year, according to Water Rhapsody. The mechanization of agriculture, pesticides and improved fertilizers has resulted i...

A Sticky Proposal

A proposal written by an advisory group of industry, municipal, aboriginal and environmental groups has led to the recent unveiling of a plan by the government of Alberta that will give some level of conservation protection to at least 20% of tar sands la...

Update from the Gulf

Devastation in the Gulf As oil continues to seep into the Gulf of Mexico, aggressive awareness campaigns and protection efforts are vital in order to save what’s left of the delicate balance of life in the ocean.  The devastating effects of the BP oil ...

Creating Wetlands for Birds

The U.S. Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative has announced that they are willing to pay up to $20 million to Gulf of Mexico area landowners to flood their fields in hopes of attracting migrating birds to the clean water.  An estimated 1 billion birds wi...