Oil - Pipelines

Trudeau gives approval to use Vancouver port to ship Alberta oil to East Coast of Canada

08/05/20

Author:

Geoffrey Morgan

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May 5, 2020

Irving’s circuitous route is seen as a novel way to get around regulatory logjams in Canada that have stalled a number of pipelines

CALGARY – After failing to secure Western Canadian oil via the scrapped West-to-East Energy East pipeline back in 2017, Irving Oil Ltd.’s finally been able to get federal approval for a new route to connect the oilsands to its refinery on the East Coast.

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How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right?

08/05/20

Author:

George Monbiot

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The Guardian

Heliostats at the Ivanpah solar thermal power plant in California’s Mojave Desert. ‘The film’s attacks on solar and wind power rely on a series of blatant falsehoods.’ Photograph: Alamy

May 7, 2020

The filmmaker’s latest venture is an excruciating mishmash of environment falsehoods and plays into the hands of those he once opposed

Denial never dies; it just goes quiet and waits. Today, after years of irrelevance, the climate science deniers are triumphant. Long after their last, desperate claims had collapsed, when they had traction only on “alt-right” conspiracy sites, a hero of the left turns up and gives them more than they could have dreamed of.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Dr. Bonnie Henry links jump in B.C. COVID-19 cases to work camp in Alberta oilsands

06/05/20

Author:

Charlie Smith

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Straight

Dr. Bonnie Henry has raised concern about a community outbreak of COVID-19 at the Kearl Lake oilsands project north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

May 2nd, 2020\

The provincial public health officer wants Alberta oilsands workers who come back to B.C. on their breaks to self-isolate.

Dr. Bonnie Henry pointed out that there continue to be positive test results for COVID-19 linked to a project north of Fort McMurray.

"One of the more challenging issues that we've had recently is an increase in numbers of cases here associated with the Kearl Lake plant in Alberta," Henry told reporters today.

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Michael Moore, filmmakers respond to criticism of new bombshell environmental film

30/04/20

Author:

The Hill

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youtube.com

Apr 28, 2020

Academy award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and associates discuss their new documentary, 'Planet of the Humans,' a documentary that says we are selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America.

Watch here. (22 min.)

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Alberta premier calls energy transition an 'ideological scheme'

27/04/20

Author:

Emma McIntosh

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National Observer

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney briefs reporters on April 24, 2020, on a series of new grants aimed at helping oil and gas companies clean up inactive wells. Photo from Government of Alberta/Flickr

April 24th 2020

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney lashed out Friday at a reporter who asked him whether a transition toward renewable energy might be on the table as global crude prices plummet.

"With the oil and gas market taking such a hit, when do you start thinking about a transition away from fossil fuels?" Tom Ross, the reporter for Calgary's 660 News, asked.

"Our focus is on getting people back to work, not pie-in-the-sky ideological schemes," Kenney said, flanked by his energy and environment ministers.

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Planet of the humans: A reheated mess of lazy, old myths [Detailed critique of the film]

27/04/20

Author:

Ketan Joshi

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ketanjoshi.co

April 24, 2020

The film ‘Planet of the Humans’ opens with the director, Jeff Gibbs, operating a fossil-fuelled combustion engine vehicle, on a road full of combustion engine vehicles, followed up with some footage taken from the International Space Station (fossil fuelled rockets put that in space).

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Michael Moore’s dreadful, ill-informed, unhelpful film

27/04/20

Author:

Elizabeth May

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Green Party of Canada

April 26, 2020

During a Green Party webinar last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, one message from a member of the audience caught my attention:

“Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America.”

And then the question:

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'Alternative' energy and less energy