Tag: bitumen

Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia
Energy, Tar Sands, Wildlife

SpOIL: Tar Sands Pipelines Threaten Great Bear Rainforest

The Enbridge Inc. Northern Gateway Pipelines project threatened British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, home to thousands of species of plants and animals and the Kermode white spirit bear, enabling the destructive Alberta oil sands mining project. The project is dead, but tar sands are still being mined, shipped and burned, destroying ecosystems and the climate.