Shifting Sands: an in-depth look at the Alberta tar sands
The Globe and Mail is in the middle of an eight part series of articles on the Alberta Tar Sands that looks not only at the economic windfall the development has had on the region, but also at the economic and environmental costs associated with mining in the tar sands.
Shifting Sands index
- An Empire from a Tub of Goo
- The Kinder, Gentler Energy Superpower
- Why Cape Breton shakes in the echo of this distant boom
- Where rich and poor Alberta collide
- Norway the gold standard for managing oil wealth
- The climatic costs of rapid growth
- Looking for solutions to the carbon conundrum
Shifting Sands: Related content
- Aerial photos, narrated by Edward Burtinsky. Also check out the links to the mining process and a map of the region being discussed in the series.
- How the oil sands have changed Canada
- Stelmach assails ‘well-funded environmental groups’
- Held hostage by the tar sands: Alberta’s greed is a threat to Canada and the world (The Tyee)
- Crude Awakening: Alberta Oil Sands (video, CBC)
