Canada

Pricing carbon and phasing out fossil fuels will drive up costs for households and businesses, but the transition is necessary and will become more expensive if it is delayed, the Conference Board of Canada concluded in a report issued earlier this week.

Sept 8, 2017 - Energy East is dead and j’accuse the Trudeau Liberals.

While some Indigenous activists gear up to fight expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline on the streets and in court, federal Liberal cabinet ministers say there's no going back on their decision to approve the $7.4-billion project.

Inspired by some of the tactics used by protesters at Standing Rock in North Dakota, the Secwepemc Nation, situated along the Trans Mountain route, said Wednesday it was preparing to build "10 tiny houses" in the path of the project's construction as a protest and with the hope of forcing a delay.

From: Cameron Fenton - 350.org <350@350.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:30 PM
Subject: Kinder Morgan needs one permit - and we can stop it.
 

From: Cameron Fenton - 350.org <350@350.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:30 PM
Subject: Kinder Morgan needs one permit - and we can stop it.
 

A Federal Court of Appeal judge has granted British Columbia intervener status in a legal challenge of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, while scolding the provincial government for its "blasé" approach to the case since taking power earlier this summer.

The New Democrats campaigned on using "every tool" available to kill the project and announced plans to join the Federal Court of Appeal case several weeks ago.

There's a suggestion that backing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion from Alberta to B.C. would cost Trudeau fewer votes than Energy East

The National Energy Board’s unprecedented decision to widen its study of the Energy East pipeline to include much broader climate change impacts suggests that the fix is in to kill the proposed $15.7 billion project.