LNG - Fracking

The current move in oil prices is largely attributed to geopolitical risk.
The next major move in oil could be triggered if inventories fall to critical levels.
Wall Street’s consensus seems to be that Brent will reach $100 by the summer.

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Capitalism

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Oil - Pipelines

Record Fossil Extraction from Canada, U.S., Norway Despite Fervent Climate Pledges

03/02/22

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The Energy Mix

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The Energy Mix

$EcoFlight - fracking$

Feb. 2, 2022

The United States, Norway, and Canada are set to produce more oil this year than ever before, despite solemn pronouncements at last year’s COP 26 climate summit on the urgent need for climate action, Oil Change International asserts in a new analysis.

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Updates from Wet'suwet'en Territory

03/02/22

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First Nations leaders

The Struggle against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline and for Indigenous sovereignty on Wet'suwet'en territory continues despite the pressures from the RCMP and industry, and an ongoing pandemic.

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Federal Court Revokes Oil and Gas Leases, Citing Climate Change

30/01/22

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The NY ledger

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The NY ledger

Jan. 28, 2022

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday canceled oil and gas leases of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, ruling that the Biden administration did not sufficiently take climate change into account when it auctioned the leases late last year.

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FortisBC doubles down on nefarious efforts to block electrification

27/01/22

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Seth Klein

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National Observer

The pledge to provide new buildings with 100 per cent renewable gas is a pipe dream, writes columnist Seth Klein. Photo by Niklas Eichler / Pexels

Jan. 26, 2022

Across North America, jurisdictions are starting to ban gas from new buildings as part of plans to tackle the climate emergency. And that has fossil fuel gas companies very nervous and pushing back. FortisBC, the primary provider of “natural” gas to British Columbia homes and businesses, sensing an impending existential threat to their business plan has a counter-plan.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

An explosive report on one of the largest carbon capture and storage facilities in Alberta is challenging the wisdom of Canada’s hydrogen strategy

27/01/22

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Shell's Quest carbon capture plant captures less than it emits. Photo via NRCan

Jan. 26, 2022

An explosive report on one of the largest carbon capture and storage facilities in Alberta is challenging the wisdom of Canada’s hydrogen strategy.

The Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility operated by Shell near Edmonton is emitting more greenhouse gases than it captures, according to a report published last week by international NGO Global Witness.

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The throne speech Premier John Horgan means to give

23/01/22

Author:

Seth Klein

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National Observer

Columnist Seth Klein believes he has had a "sneak peek" at the B.C. government's Feb. 8 throne speech. Photo via Province of British Columbia / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Horgan's Throne Speech is slated for Feb. 8. Seth Klein's proposed text for it (below) is a fantasy, but it does lay out many of the tasks that need doing in the near future. Only a huge mobilization of BCers can force even some of them to be done.

-- Gene McGuckin

Jan. 19, 2022

[The following is a work of fiction.]

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Pressure mounts against the Coastal GasLink pipeline

14/01/22

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Jan. 14, 2022

Pressure continues to mount against the Coastal GasLink pipeline in Interior B.C., as posters appeared in Vancouver on Thursday highlighting the violation of Indigenous rights and the impacts of climate change.

The first poster, put up at the intersection of Main and Union, shows armed RCMP agents with the text: “Reconciliation won’t come at the barrel of a gun. Call off the RCMP.”

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BC NDP Faces Internal Pressure to Change Course on Wet’suwet’en Crisis

10/01/22

Author:

Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

Freda Huson is arrested in February 2020 at the end of a long standoff between RCMP and Wet’suwet’en land defenders in northern BC. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Jan. 10, 2022

Three years ago RCMP moved onto Wet’suwet’en territory, tearing down a barricade on a forest service road that blocked access to the planned route of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

The single-day enforcement on Jan. 7, 2019, resulted in the arrest of 14 people, both Wet’suwet’en and their supporters. But it didn’t bring a resolution to the dispute over the pipeline, opposed by Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs.

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