Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta

CALGARY -- The federal government should prevent the proposed Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline from providing fuel for oil sands production because of global warming issues, several environmental groups argued at a regulatory hearing yesterday in Edmonton.

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(Edmonton) Environmental groups representing millions of North Americans are calling on the Joint Review Panel (JRP) for the Mackenzie Gas Project to consider, as an integral part of the project, how the gas carried by the pipeline would be used, as well as the resulting greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.

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Edmonton - Sierra Club of Canada welcomes the report released today from the Alberta Government convened multi-stakeholder committee on a vision for oil sands development in the province.

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(Ottawa) The Conservative government’s commitment to a five fold expansion of tar sands oil production is totally inconsistent with promises this week to take the climate crisis seriously.

Ottawa and Inuvik - Much of the Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary will be flooded by the Arctic Ocean due to subsidence effects caused by Mackenzie Gas Project wells, permafrost melting, and rising sea levels caused by global warming said Sierra Club of Canada.