Alberta

MP Julian Says Cancel TMX, Singh Says Not So Fast

25/11/21

Author:

Alex Ballingall

Link:

The Star

[Editor: Note that the expansion is not slated to supply local refineries.]

Nov. 24, 2021

OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is not pushing to cancel the government-owned Trans Mountain expansion, even though a veteran MP in his caucus is calling for an immediate halt to construction of the controversial oil pipeline project.

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Trans Mountain monitoring spill of drilling additive in Coquitlam watercourse

24/11/21

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Trans Mountain monitoring spill of drilling additive in Coquitlam watercourse

Link:

Tricity News

Indigenous leaders held a ceremony at Maquabeak Park in Coquitlam in May, 2021 to express concerns about an oil pipeline being drilled under the Fraser River.Fin Donnelly/Twitter

Nov. 22, 2021

Trans Mountain continues to monitor the impacts of a spill of clay-based drilling fluid in a water course near the Mary Hill bypass in Coquitlam last week.

In a statement, the company reported that approximately one cubic meter of bentonite was “inadvertently released” into a watercourse during horizontal directional drilling (HDD) procedures on Friday (Nov. 19).

The drilling is to install a section of pipe from Surrey to Coquitlam for the construction of the pipeline to Burnaby.

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When Surging Floods Meet Expanding Pipelines

24/11/21

Author:

Zoe Yunker

Link:

The Tyee

Construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline near Hope, BC, in October. The pipeline is currently shut down due to massive floods and landslides that hit the province last week. Photo by Jonathan Hayward, the Canadian Press.

Nov. 23, 2021

Romilly Cavanaugh stood at the edge of the Coquihalla River north of Hope, watching big trees snap off the bank like blades of grass in a lawn mower. Some of those not swept away held dead fish in their branches three metres off the ground — a reminder of what came before.

Cavanaugh and her fellow engineers had been sent into the chaos for a sole purpose: to watch the Trans Mountain pipeline through the flood of 1995.

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The new language of climate denial

18/11/21

Author:

Cameron Fenton

Link:

National Observer

A young girl takes the road to Isle de Jean Charles, which is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico from erosion fuelled by climate change and land subsidence accelerated by the fossil fuel industry. Photo by Stacy Kranitz / Climate Visuals Countdown

November 18th 2021

For decades, the fossil fuel industry ran a wildly successful and well-funded campaign to muddy the waters when it came to climate change. It denied the science, created false equivalencies and dumped billions upon billions of dollars into projects designed to protect profits. Then, a few years ago, this lie was exposed just as the impacts of climate change began to be felt widely around the world.

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TMX pipeline and B.C.’s climate tragedy

18/11/21

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

Excavators work to clear a section of Highway 7 east of Agassiz following a mudslide. Photo via B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

November 18th 2021

Extreme weather fuelled by climate breakdown is exposing the vulnerability of key infrastructure in British Columbia and is reviving questions among environmentalists and residents about building the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline.

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Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will

09/11/21

Author:

Andrew Nikiforuk

Link:

The Tyee

Oversold: Forget carbon storage, direct air capture, hydrogen power and the Earth relentlessly mined to support ‘green tech.’ Image from Shutterstock.

3 Nov 2021

Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts.

Since 1995 there have been 25 global conferences on climate change. At every one our so-called political leaders have kicked the can down the road and sung from a bright green hymnbook.

Greta Thunberg has disparaged the refrain as nothing more than “blah, blah, blah.”

She is right of course. Blah, blah blah has kept emissions rising, along with energy spending and its twin sibling unbridled economic growth.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

For Immediate Release: November 01, 2021 Statement from Dale Marshall, National Climate Program Manager, on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech at the U.N. climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland

04/11/21

Author:

Environmental Defence

Link:

Environmental Defence

Glasgow, Scotland – Today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau identified the biggest climate challenge for Canada but failed to come up with the right solution. Focusing on emissions from oil and gas production but not production itself will allow oil and gas companies to keep putting forward false solutions, such as carbon capture and storage, fossil-based hydrogen, and far-off net zero plans, all while pumping out more and more atmosphere-destroying fossil fuels.

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Make provinces pay for their emissions

28/10/21

Author:

Ross Belot

Link:

National Observer

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet included green equalization in his party's platform. And under that scenario, Alberta would pay and Quebec would receive, writes Ross Belot. File photo by Andrew Meade

October 28th 2021

Equalization payment policy always produces an energized discussion in Canada, particularly between Quebec and Alberta. During a recent election, a province’s quasi-referendum on changing the concept of equalization was supported by a substantial 41 per cent. Not the one held in Alberta this month, I’m talking about Quebec.

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Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction

13/10/21

Author:

Adrian Ayres Fisher, originally published by Ecological Gardening

Link:

Resilience

Teaser photo credit: Aerial photograph of open pit mine in the tar sands oil fields of Alberta, Canada.. Howl Arts Collective, Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tar_sands_in_alberta_2008.jpg. Modified by author-supplied photo.

Oct. 8, 2021

Dear Mr. Paulson,

You arguably are one of the most powerful, famous, and networked men in the world, with many important accomplishments. I am the completely ordinary, middle class, volunteer steward of 53 acres of publicly owned, remnant floodplain woodland situated on the banks of the Des Plaines River.

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TMX pipeline construction: increasing delays and expense

06/10/21

Author:

Andru McCracken & Laura Keil

Link:

The Rocky Mountain Goat

Chart summarizing delays in completion of each stage of construction across the different spreads (segments) of the pipeline route. Based on analysis by West Coast Environmental Law.

Oct. 3, 2021

According to a new 28-page report by West Coast Environmental Law, the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is going to be delivered late and over budget.

Eugene Kung, a lawyer for West Coast Environmental Law helped assemble the report called: Trans Mountain: Delays into 2023 will add millions to public cost, which can be viewed here: tinyurl.com/TMX-delay

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Alberta

Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts.

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