Canada: Tar Sands Oil Boom Drives Push for A Northern Pipeline

Yale Environment 360: The Great Bear Rainforest is a 27,000-square-mile wilderness that stretches from southern British Columbia to the Alaska border. One of the last undisturbed temperate rainforests in the world, it is home to cougars, wolves, wolverine, grizzly bears, and the iconic Kermode, a unique subspecies of black bear with a recessive gene that is responsible for its fur being white. The rainforest is far from the sprawling oil sands mines of Alberta. But if the Canadian government, the Alberta government,......

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