Earth Equity News

Groups Urge Senate to Uphold Ban on Tar Sands. By Martin Mittelstaedt, Toronto Globe and Mail, May 8, 2008. “A who’s who of major U.S. and Canadian environmental organizations is urging the U.S. Senate to keep in place a rule banning the U.S. government from buying fuel from Alberta’s tar sands on the grounds that it is too environmentally tainted. Yesterday, the groups released a letter sent to all members of the U.S. Congress, urging them to reject efforts to revoke the fuel measure through amendments to other legislation, arguing that taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be spent ‘to develop alternative fuel sources that make global warming worse’… The letter was written by the Natural Resources Defense Council… and endorsed by 26 other organizations, including Greenpeace Canada, Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club.”