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Tar Sands Report References

1. Brethour, Bird, and Tweed (2005). ‘The Athabasca Oil Sands Story.’ The Globe and Mail. Published 04-04-2005.

2. Environment Canada (2004). ‘Canadian Acid Deposition Science Assessment.’ Environment Canada. Published 2004.

3. Environmental Defence (2008). ‘Canada’s Toxic Tar Sands.’ Source: www.environmentaldefence.ca. Published February 2008.

4. Ganeshan and Diamond (2009). ‘Forecasting the numbers of people affected annually by natural disasters up to 2015.’ Oxfam GB. Published April 2009.

5. Government of Alberta (2009). ‘Oil Sands website.’ Source: oilsands.alberta.ca. Last accessed 10-06-2009.

6. Hansen (2009). ‘Obama’s tar sand trap.’ Source: www.guardian.co.uk. Published 18-02-2009.

7. www.aeri.ab.ca. Published 2005.

8. Indigenous Environmental Network (2009). ‘Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign website.’ Source: www.ienearth.org. Last accessed 10-06-2009.

9. Kairos (2008). ‘Pumped Up.’ Available from www.kairoscanada.org. KAIROS, 129 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto. Published 2008.

10. MacKinnon (2004). ‘Syncrude Research. Oil Sands Water Quality Issues: Properties, Treatment and Discharge Options.’ Source: www.conrad.ab.ca. 2004.

11. Mossop (1980). ‘Geology of the Athabasca Oil Sands.’ Science, New Series, Vol. 207, No. 4427, pp. 145-152. Published 11-01-1980.

12. National Energy Board (2004). ‘Canada¿s Oil Sands: Opportunities and Challenges to 2015.’ Published 2004.

13. Peachey (2005). ‘Strategic Needs for Energy Related Water Use Technologies.’ Source:

14. Pembina Institute (2005). ‘Oil Sands Fever.’ Pembina Institute. Published November 2005.

15. Price of Oil (2009). ‘Co-op funds tar sands legal challenge.’ Source: priceofoil.org/. Last accessed 10-06-2009.

16. Sachs and Warner (1995). ‘Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth.’ NBER Working Papers 5398, National Bureau of Economic Research. Published 1995.

17. Shiell and Loney (2007). ‘Global Warming Damages and Canada’s Oil Sands.’ Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 419-440. University of Toronto Press. Published December 2007.

18. Sims, Schock, Adegbululgbe, Fenhann, Konstantinaviciute, Moomaw, Nimir, Schlamadinger, Torres-Martínez, Turner, Uchiyama, Vuori, Wamukonya, and Zhang (2007). p.268 of ‘Energy supply,’ in ‘Climate Change 2007. Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.’ Metz, Davidson, Bosch, Dave, Meyer (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. Published 2007.

19. Suncor (2008). ‘Suncor website.’ Source: suncor.com. Last accessed 2008.

20. The Economist (2009). ‘A sticky ending for the tar sands.’ Source: www.economist.com. Last accessed 10-06-2009.

21. The Independent (2007). ‘The biggest environmental crime in history.’ Source: www.independent.co.uk. Published 10-12-2007.

22. The Times (2008). ‘Fund managers attack BP over tar sands plan.’ Source: business.timesonline.co.uk). Published 18-04-2008.

23. Tyndall Centre (2007). ‘Climate Change Policy and Canada’s Oil Sand Resources: An Update and Appraisal of Canada’s New Regulatory Framework for Air Emissions. Source: www.wwf.org.uk. Published May 2007.

24. Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) (2008). ‘Scraping the Barrel.’ Source: www.wwf.org.uk. Published 2008.

25. Woynillowicz, Severson-Bakaernd, and Raynolds (2005). ‘Oil Sands Fever: The Environmental Implications of Canada’s Oil Sands Rush.’ The Pembina Institute. Published 01-05-2007.