Stop Dirty Fuels
Stop Dirty Fuels : Tar Sands : Liquid Coal : Oil Shale
photo: David Dodge, The Pembina Institute Suncor's Millenium Oil Sands Mine east of the Athabasca River.
North America stands at an energy crossroads. As cheap, plentiful conventional oil becomes a luxury of the past, we now face a choice: to set a course for a more sustainable energy future of clean, renewable fuels, or to develop ever-dirtier sources of transportation fuel derived from fossil fuels -- at an even greater cost to our health and environment.
The United States is the world's top oil consumer and thus the primary driver behind the development of new forms of dirty transportation fuels in North America. These fuels are derived from lower-grade, difficult-to-access raw materials, including tar sands, oil shale and coal. Moving down this road has enormous consequences for the air we breathe, the water we drink, our climate, our wildlands and wildlife. NRDC is actively working to fight the infrastructure that would support increased production and use of these fuels, such as tar sands pipelines, refineries, and mining equipment transportation corridor expansions; oil shale mines; and liquid coal production facilities.
Take Action Now!
Tell Congress to Let the Keystone XL Pipeline Die
President Obama has stood his ground and killed a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, but Republican leaders in Congress are trying to force its approval by attaching it to unrelated legislation. Tell your senators and representative to stop holding our government hostage to the interests of Big Oil!
More about Dirty Fuels from
NRDC's staff blog
- Report Shows Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline Will Raise Gas Prices and Cut Midwest Oil Supplies
- posted by Rocky Kistner, 5/22/12
- Despite all the industry hype over jobs and purported energy security benefits from building ...
- New Report: Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will increase U.S. gas prices
- posted by Anthony Swift, 5/22/12
- One of the most misunderstood issues surrounding the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is its ...
- Voices Against Tar Sands: People on the Front Lines Speak Out
- posted by Rocky Kistner, 5/15/12
- Washington’s political wars rarely match reality back home. So when politicians and K Street ...
- Keystone XL tar sands pipeline application poses same threats and needs a fresh review process
- posted by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, 5/4/12
- TransCanada has applied to the State Department for a proposed pipeline that would run from the Canadian ...
- New Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Permit Rejected by Nebraska Residents
- posted by Rocky Kistner, 5/4/12
- TransCanada’s latest Keystone XL tar sands pipeline plan filed with the U.S. State Department ...
