LNG - Fracking

09/03/23
Author: 
Kai Nagata
A proposed gas pipeline in B.C. would run through the Skeena watershed. Photo by Brian Huntington / Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition

Mar. 9, 2023

B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman will soon decide the fate of Enbridge’s Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Project — and possibly his government. First approved in 2014, the 48-inch pipeline would carry fracked gas across a complex patchwork of sovereign territories to a new LNG terminal on the coast.

09/03/23
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
‘The irony is that [the LNG Canada plant will] be BC’s largest source of pollution but will be paying less in carbon tax than regular British Columbians filling up at a gas station,’ says Sven Biggs, Canadian oil and gas programs director. Photo via Shutterstock.

Mar. 9, 2023

BC Budget Hits Snooze on Climate Action

If governments around the world take our approach, says one expert, ‘we’re fried.’

08/03/23
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
Glass sponge reefs, only found in the cool waters of the Pacific northwest, help mitigate global warming and ocean acidification by absorbing 227 tonnes of CO2 every day. Image still from Moonless Oasis, a CBC documentary by Perpetuum Films about glass sponge reefs in Howe Sound.

Mar. 8, 2023

So why hasn’t the government cancelled oil and gas exploration permits that could damage them?

06/03/23
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Composite: Guardian Design/CATF/AP/Getty Images

Mar. 6, 2023

Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating

More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas facilities. The worst single leak spewed the pollution at a rate equivalent to 67m running cars.

04/03/23
Author: 
Amanda Stephenson - The Canadian Press
Storage is shown at the Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery in Detroit. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said it expects investment in oil and natural gas production in Canada to rise above pre-pandemic levels. PHOTO BY PAUL SANCYA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mar. 2, 2023

'Feels pretty good': Oil and gas investment in Canada to hit $40 billion in 2023, CAPP says

Up 11 per cent from last year, but still well off levels in 2014 when oil prices last boomed

CALGARY — Investment in oil and gas production in Canada will jump by 11 per cent to hit $40 billion in 2023, the country’s largest fossil fuel industry group said Wednesday.

Demand big question for oil prices this year

28/02/23
Author: 
Gidim’ten Checkpoint

PRINCE GEORGE, BC - February 28, 2023: A dozen Wet’suwet’en land defenders and supporters have applied to the Supreme Court of British Columbia to have criminal contempt charges stayed in light of widespread Charter violations stemming from police misconduct.

 

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