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The tarsands is the final chapter of the First Industrial Age. How do we start writing a new story?

Few places are lucky enough to harbour their own great scribe. In Robert Kroestsch, Alberta could not be luckier.

When an overdeveloped sense of prosperity causes an underdeveloped sense of democracy.

The upsides of Fort McMurray’s move from boomtown to slowdown.

The province says life is fine downstream from the oil sands. So why does nobody in Fort Chipewyan believe it?

Oil sands extraction makes a lot of waste. Where does it all go? Welcome to Alberta’s tailings ponds.

Our water’s running low. Alberta’s government has a plan, but the oil sands just might suck us dry.

Flushing our water down the toilet.