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All Documents in Energy Tagged boreal forest

Danger in the Nursery
Impact of Tar Sands Oil Development in Canada’s Boreal on Birds

Report
Each spring more than half of America's birds flock to the Canadian Boreal forest to nest. There, tens of millions of birds -- as many as 500 breeding pairs per square mile of forests, lakes, river valleys, and wetlands -- spend the winter. Yet almost all the biggest oil companies are mining and drilling important Boreal forest and wetlands to access thick, low-grade petroleum. As much as an area the size of Florida is endangered. This December 2008 report from NRDC, The Pembina Institute and the Boreal Songbird Initiative describes how Canada and the United States must protect migratory birds and bird habitat from this new form of high-impact energy development.

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Strip Mining for Oil in Endangered Forests
Fact Sheet
Big oil interests are scraping away hundreds of thousands of acres in North America’s Boreal forest to produce tar sands oil, and in the process consuming large amounts of natural gas and generating three times as much global warming pollution as conventional crude oil production. Greater efficiency and renewable fuels are far better, cleaner ways to meet our energy needs. Get document in pdf.
In the Canadian Boreal Forest, a Conservation Ethic at Work
Interview
After fighting successfully for years to keep destructive logging, hydropower and mining projects out of their traditional territory, the people of Poplar River are now working to secure permanent protection for their boreal forest homeland.
The Boreal Forest: Earth's Green Crown
Photo Album
Canada's vast boreal forest is among the largest intact forest ecosystems left on earth, and must be preserved. This feature tells its story in words and pictures.
The Canadian Boreal Forest
Overview
A quick primer on Canada's boreal forest -- the natural and cultural qualities it possesses, the problems it faces, and the solutions that could save it for future generations.

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boreal forest
bush administration
California
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Canada
cap 2.0
cap and trade
carbon offsets
caribou
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CCS
china
clean energy
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cleantech
climate legislation
coal
coal-fired power plants
compact fluorescent lighting
conservation and restoration
consumer products
demand side management
diesel
diesel buses
diesel exhaust
dirty fuels
drilling
economy
efficient vehicles
electric utilities
electricity industry
energy efficiency
energy policy
energy security
environmental history
ethanol
florida
Forests
fuel
fuel economy
fuel efficiency standards
fuel savings
gas drilling
gas prices
gasoline
global warming
global warming emissions
global warming legislation
green buildings
green business
green jobs
health
health effects
household energy use
human health
hybrid
hybrid cars
hybrid vehicles
hybrids
hydrogen
hydropower
indoor air quality
jobs
Kids' Health
landfill gas
lead
liquid coal
livestock farms
location efficient mortgages
Los Angeles
mercury
methane
mining
Missouri
mountains
mountaintop removal mining
mtr
natural gas
NEPA
new energy economy
New York
New York City
nitrogen oxides
nrdc offices
nuclear energy
Obama
oceans
offshore drilling
oil
oil drilling
oil shale
open space
particulate pollution
photos
polar bears
policy
pollution
power plants
public lands
public transportation
renewable energy
renewable fuel
renewables
respiratory illness
Rocky Mountains
smart growth
smog
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solutions
soot
sulfur dioxide
tar sands
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