Canada

Federal agency orders Trans Mountain to halt use of trench boxes after worker killed in Edmonton

01/11/20
Author: 
Phil Heidenreich
Link: 
Global News

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Alberta
Canada
Labour - Unions
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Calgary-based Canacol Energy Ltd. appears ready to frack near San Martin and Puerto Wilches in Colombia

01/11/20
Author: 
Brent Patterson
Link: 
Peace Brigades International-Canada
Photo of the blockade of the Picoplata 1 exploration field in the ConocoPhillips/Canacol Energy VMM-2 block in September 2016 from Semana Sostenible.

October 29, 2020

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Canada
Global
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Trans Mountain expansion hits snag, must re-start drilling beneath Thompson River in Kamloops

01/11/20
Author: 
James Peters
Link: 
CFJC Today
Trans Mountain expansion - File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)

Oct 29, 2020

KAMLOOPS — Trans Mountain (TMX) has had a major setback in its expansion project through Kamloops.

The pipeline twinning includes a segment beneath the Thompson River that must be installed after Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is completed.

In a statement emailed to CFJC Today, Trans Mountain says installation of the pipe in the segment beneath the river encountered “technical challenges” that require the entire HDD process to be restarted.

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Alberta
British Columbia
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Exploitation of migrant care workers has increased since COVID-19 struck, report says

30/10/20
Author: 
CBC News
Link: 
CBC News

Oct 28, 2020

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Canada
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Trans Mountain expansion may not be economically viable, says think tank report

30/10/20
Author: 
David Thurton
Link: 
CBC News
Oct 29, 2020
Workers unload pipe to start right-of-way construction for the Trans Mountain expansion project in Acheson, Alta., Dec. 3, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson)
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Alberta
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O’Regan says he will ‘monitor’ methane rules. Critics say it’s time to strengthen them

30/10/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan, seen here in September, says “the regulations ... were established using our best available data, and forecasts will change over time...” Photo via SeamusORegan/Twitter

October 30th 2020

Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan says Canada will look “very closely” at whether to tighten rules around a potent form of carbon pollution if “future data and modelling” convinces him it’s warranted.

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Canada
Climate Change
LNG - Fracking
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New report questions Trans Mountain expansion’s ‘Asian markets’ rationale

30/10/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer

October 30th 2020

A new study is questioning one of the central rationales for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project — that it would allow Canada to fetch a fair price for its oil.

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Alberta
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Canada
Oil - Pipelines
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Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project

29/10/20
Author: 
David Hughes
Link: 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
report cover - Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project

Production forecasts, economics and environmental considerations

OCTOBER 29, 2020
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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Oil - Pipelines
Tar Sands
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Sharmarke Dubow champions climate justice, mitigation through community

29/10/20
Author: 
Patricia Lane
Link: 
National Observer
Victoria Coun. Sharmarke Dubow gives Maasai visitors a tour of city hall. Photo submitted by Sharmarke Dubow

October 29th 2020

As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Victoria Coun. Sharmarke Dubow.

The 1990s were personally tough for me. I spent the decade immersed in action based on climate catastrophe science, trying, and by all accounts failing, to stem the tide. Hardest of all, death and dementia came to my family.

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British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
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Canada, it's time to endorse a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

29/10/20
Author: 
Tzeporah Berman
Link: 
National Observer
Tzeporah Berman

October 28th 2020

I am old enough to remember when, in the 1970s, upon entering a city almost anywhere in the world, you would see a sign that said: “Nuclear-free city.”

At the time, the greatest and most likely threat to humanity was nuclear weapons. Today, the World Economic Forum identifies the greatest and most likely threat to humanity to be our failure to mitigate climate change.

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Canada
Climate Change
Nuclear
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