Canada

08/05/20
Author: 
Geoffrey Morgan

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.

08/05/20
Author: 
Alex Ballingall
Na’Moks

May 4, 2020

OTTAWA—The federal government’s export credit agency will lend up to $500 million to build the Coastal GasLink, a natural gas pipeline that sparked a national protest movement and reckoning over the Liberal administration’s commitment to Indigenous reconciliation.

27/04/20
Author: 
Emma McIntosh
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.

27/04/20
Author: 
Elizabeth May

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: 

26/04/20
Author: 
Vancouver Ecosocialists
We want change!!

Sister, Brothers, and Friends,

In less than a month our political landscape has changed drastically. Millions of

lives are disrupted in ways unimaginable a few weeks ago. In the absence of

well-organized progressive forces, fighting effectively for progressive policies,

the post-coronavirus world will be designed by corporate bankers and grim for

all the rest of us.

Already there are important campaigns against bailing out the fossil fuel

industry and in favour of closing the industrial construction camps and

26/04/20
Author: 
Leadnow
TransLink says if it doesn't receive emergency funding from the federal or provincial governments, there could be unprecedented cuts to local transit services. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
Metro Vancouver’s transit authority, TransLink, just slashed services that tens of thousands of us rely on, including frontline and healthcare workers and ordinary British Columbians who take the bus or SkyTrain to work every day.[1]

25/04/20
Author: 
Colton Davies
TMX pipes
Updated: Most of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Kamloops to start in September
 
April 22, 2020 04:44 pm
 

The mayor of Kamloops says physical construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion isn’t expected to start here now until September.

Ken Christian says pre-construction work is still happening at the yard on Mission Flats Road with about 100 employees.

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