Oil - Pipelines

Climate activists go to jail to stop Trans Mountain’s climate crime

22/08/19

Author:

Lisa Descary

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August 20, 2019

On August 16, climate activists Rita Wong and Will Offley were sentenced to jail for blocking the TransMountain site on Burnaby Mountain. Will was sentenced to 14 days in prison, and Rita to a shocking 28 days, the longest sentence yet in the more than 220 arrests of water and land protectors.

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Trans Mountain and the Honour of the Crown: Indigenous legal challenges, round two

22/08/19

Author:

Eugene Kung

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West Coast Environmental Law

First Nations announce the new round of TMX legal challenges at a press conference in July 2019. (Photo: Eugene Kung)

August 21, 2019

The federal cabinet’s re-approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline and Tanker Expansion Project (“TMX” or “the Project”) on June 18, 2019 was hardly shocking news. After all, federal cabinet ministers have been saying for years that ‘the pipeline will be built.’ They even spent $4.5 billion of public money to bail out the project when pipeline company Kinder Morgan decided to abandon it.

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BREAKING: Trans Mountain announces ‘immediate return to work’ in Burnaby

21/08/19

Author:

Chris Campbell

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Burnaby Now

A computer rendering of how the Burnaby Mountain tank farm will look when changes are completed for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Trans Mountain image

An “immediate return to work” has been issued by Trans Mountain for two Burnaby sites for the pipeline expansion project.

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British Columbia

Canada

Oil - Pipelines

Unwilling to live with the lie - Matthew Linnitt, The Price of Oil Coverups and lies ‘a systemic cancer’ in the world of oilpatch health and safety

20/08/19

Author:

Elizabeth McSheffrey, with files from Mike De Souza and Carolyn Jarvis

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National Observer

Matthew Linnitt says he's grateful his livelihood no longer depends on oil and gas. He no longer fears reprisal against his family. Photo by Jennifer Osborne

August 20th 2019

The words may not have been explicit, but oilpatch contractor Matthew Linnitt says he read between the lines: lie on official documents about an incident that could have killed him, or someone would be fired.

The tacit threat, he alleges, was handed down by his supervisor at Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) after a close call with hydrogen sulfide on a northwestern Alberta well site on May 2, 2016.

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Pipeline fight is not over, and Canadians everywhere have a stake

17/08/19

Author:

Robert Hackett

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National Observer

A shot of Fort McMurray, Alberta in 2012. Photo by Kris Krüg from Flickr

August 9th 2019

The Trudeau government and the petrobloc (the fossil fuel industries and their political, financial and media allies) would like you to believe that the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX), intended to triple the flow of diluted bitumen from the Athabasca Sands to the port of Vancouver, is a done deal.

But the latest approval of TMX by the Trudeau government and the industry-friendly National Energy Board does not settle the issue.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Insurers Pressured to Drop Coverage of Canada’s Oil Sands Pipeline

09/08/19

Author:

Valerie Volcovici

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Insurance Journal

Photograph: Mining equipment called a bucketwheel reclaimer is used at oil sands mines in Alberta, Canada.

August 8, 2019 by

A coalition of 32 environmental and indigenous groups on Thursday urged insurers to stop underwriting the Trans Mountain pipeline to pressure Canada to cancel its plan to expand the project which carries crude from Alberta’s oil sands to British Columbia’s Pacific coast.

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Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition'

08/08/19

Author:

Damian Carrington

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The Guardian

Extinction Rebellion environmental activists in Leeds last month. Ending fossil fuel subsidies has long been seen as vital in tackling the climate emergency. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

1 Aug 2019

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Unions vs. Environmentalists or Unions and Environmentalists? - Jobs, the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis

07/08/19

Author:

Aviva Chomsky

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Common Dreams

Despite challenges from parts of both the labor and the environmental movements, which its sponsors had undoubtedly hoped would be among its strongest supporters, Markey and Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal resolution has gone a remarkably long way toward putting a genuine discussion of what an effective and just climate policy might look like in the public arena for the first time. (Photo: Emelia Gold)

This article contains some rare information and analysis about U.S. unions' positions on the Green New Deal and the climate disruption crisis in general.

Published onTuesday, August 06, 2019 by TomDispatch

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Will ‘Chilling Effect’ of Spying on Protesters Silence Pipeline Opponents?

07/08/19

Author:

Kris Hermes

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The Tyee

Indigenous leaders led a march against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. And the Protest Papers suggest CSIS was watching. Photo by Rogue Collective.

Aug. 7, 2019

The “Protest Papers” released by the BC Civil Liberties Association are just the latest chapter in a five-year battle to determine if CSIS and the oil and gas industry are illegally spying on citizens’ groups.

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