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Tar Sands

Tar sands oil is one of the most destructive, dirty, and costly fuels in the world. To extract the tar sands, oil companies are digging up pristine forest in Alberta, Canada and leaving behind huge toxic wastelands.

Mining and extracting tar sands:

Destroys enormous swaths of important ecosystems;
Produces lake-sized reservoirs of toxic waste;
Releases toxic chemicals into our air when it is refined in the U.S.;
Emits significantly more global warming pollutants than fuels made from conventional oil.

These are the faces of the wildlife at risk.

ALERT: Wolves to be Poisoned Over Tar Sands in Canada

Internal documents went public showing Canada is resorting to poisoning wolves to balance out declining caribou numbers. The reason? Tar sands and oil and gas development in Canada is destroying caribou habitat and causing population declines. Speak up now >>

Choose to Fight

Help us fight tar sands oil by donating through our new Choose Your Cause Campaign. This cause supports the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund.

Not only is the development of tar sands destroying the environment around Alberta, but transporting this dirty fuel to U.S. markets has also proven to be extremely dangerous, unpredictable and uncontrollable. Learn more about the largest freshwater tar sands oil spill, which dumped nearly 1 million gallons of raw tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River watershed due to a pipeline rupture.

Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Threat

TransCanada, a Canadian pipeline company, has proposed a massive pipeline which would carry up to 900,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil from operations in Alberta, Canada, more than 2,000 miles to refineries on the Gulf Coast. The pipeline, called Keystone XL, would cut through six American heartland states from Montana to Texas.

LEARN MORE about the Keystone XL pipeline, and what people across the country are doing to fight it >>

Trailbreaker Tar Sands Pipeline Threat

Enbridge Inc, a Canadian company responsible for a massive tar sands spill in the Kalamazoo River, has proposed a new project in New England. Construction of the proposed Trailbreaker pipeline could transport 200,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; and would contribute to the expansion of habitat-destroying tar sands operations in Alberta, Canada.

FIND OUT about the Trailbreaker project, and what NWF is doing to stop the expansion of the dirtiest fuel on the planet >>