Canada

03/11/16
Author: 
West Coat Environmental Law

For Immediate Release - November 3, 2016

 

Ministerial Panel report raises serious questions about Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tanker project


 

VANCOUVER, BC, Coast Salish Territories – A report released today by the Ministerial Panel that conducted recent public meetings on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker proposal must lead to a rejection by Federal Cabinet, say environmental lawyers.

 

03/11/16
Author: 
Michal Rozworski

[Webpage editor's note: This article makes clear why we should beware of nice-sounding noises about how 'green' projects will be made possible by the Liberal's new infastructure 'bank' .]

 

02/11/16
Author: 
Seble Samuel
Silent protesters disrupt a Nov. 1 speech by Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna in Ottawa, urging the federal government to reject a west coast crude oil pipeline expansion project. Photo by Mike De Souza.

We were said to have left behind the relics of a decade of environmentally gutted Conservative leadership. That scrapped environmental legislation, heavy collusion between politicians and the fossil fuel industry, diluting credibility of Canada's National Energy Board (NEB), and murky masses of fossil fuel subsidies were remnants of the past. Instead, the Liberal era would be one of climate hope, of revamped environmental assessments, tossed pipeline proposals, fossil fuel subsidy phase-outs, and renewable energy landscapes.

01/11/16

Download this Nov 2016 report by the Iron and Earth organization of tradesworkers in Alberta from their web page.

01/11/16
Author: 
Brent Patterson
TransCanada CEO Russ Girling.

November 1

The Trudeau government has approved the expansion of a TransCanada fracked gas pipeline.

Reuters reports, "The Canadian government on Monday approved the $1.3 billion expansion of a natural gas gathering pipeline in western Canada belonging to a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada Corp, with 36 conditions attached. ...The current NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd (NGTL) System is a 23,500-km pipeline that gathers natural gas from the fast-growing Montney and Duvernay shale plays in northern Alberta and north-eastern British Columbia."

31/10/16
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

85 FIRST NATIONS AND TRIBES CONDEMN ENBRIDGE’S ROLE IN THE VIOLATIONS AT STANDING ROCK AND CALL ON TRUDEAU TO SPEAK OUT

For Immediate Release

29/10/16
Author: 
Richard Warnica
Sacred Stone Camp near Cannonball, ND on Friday, September 9, 2016.

CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA — The caravan rumbled east on a back road in rural North Dakota, pickup trucks and hippie vans inching through the grey-green hills, searching for a passage through the shifting blockade. Overhead, a helicopter circled. Police trucks whipped by on the ground. They kicked up dust that streamed over the fields where black cattle roamed and protesters, desperate for a pee, ducked behind hay bales or hid in the taller grass.

26/10/16
Author: 
Nick Fillmore

Ninety-nine young environmental activists achieved their goal on Parliament Hill on Monday by carrying out acts of civil disobedience. The boisterous group climbed over restricted-area police barricades near the Peace Tower.
 

25/10/16
Author: 
Bruce Cheadle
Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie and Kevin Settee hold up their court papers after they were ticketed for trespassing at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday. (Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie/Facebook)

Group protesting proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, B.C

The Liberal government's conflicting climate and pipeline policies were thrown into sharp relief Monday as more than 200 protesters marched on Parliament Hill demanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reject any new oilsands infrastructure.

The protest resulted in the brief detention of 99 individuals, all of them issued citations by the RCMP for trespassing after climbing over police barricades near the foot of the Peace Tower.

25/10/16
Author: 
Pat Kane
Part of the Peace River valley scheduled to be flooded in order to build the Site C dam in northeastern British Columbia. Dene leaders in the N.W.T. are calling for an immediate halt on construction of the Site C Dam, saying it violates treaty rights on their traditional homeland. (Justin McElroy/CBC)

Water flowing from the dam area into Dene territory protected under agreements, says Bill Erasmus

Dene leaders in the N.W.T. are calling for an immediate halt on construction of the Site C Dam in northern B.C., saying it violates treaty rights on their traditional homeland.

In a news release, Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus said the federal government has an obligation to respect land agreements with the Dene, including the protection of water flowing from the dam area into Dene territory.

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