Tar sands in Alberta, Canada. Toxic tailings ponds are so huge from the tar sands that they can be seen from outer space.
Canada's Boreal forest stretches across North America. It houses a massive carbon storage system.
Boreal expanse in Alberta, Canada.
Tar sands in Alberta, Canada. Enbridge's project would facilitate the expansion of the tar sands by 30 per cent.
Kinuseo Falls on the Murray River in Monkman Park.
Sunset over Cape Caution Islands in the Great Bear Rainforest. Photo credit Tim Ellis.
Grizzly with Salmon. Photo credit Barry Komar.
Enbridge is proposing to build two pipelines 1,170 kilometres from the tar sands to the coast at Kitimat, BC. From there, over 225 oil tankers would ply the rugged waters of British Columbia's north coast for the first time ever. Tar sands would be shipped, with no up-grading or refining, to Asian and U.S. markets. Read More »
