Canada

02/11/15
Author: 
Kyle Bakx & Paul Haavardsrud
Former dean Leonard Waverman warned an academic to stop questioning the relationship with Enbridge because 'if this goes belly up my ass is on the line'. (YouTube)

Joe Arvai's tenure at the University of Calgary ended brusquely in July 2012 after the rising academic star balked at leading a new research institute that he felt would be perceived as little more than a corporate mouthpiece for Canada's largest pipeline company. 

But Arvai is not the only professor to leave the university over concerns its relationships with the oil industry were too cozy, a CBC investigation has found. 

02/11/15
Author: 
Kyle Bakx & Paul Haavardsrud
Former dean Leonard Waverman warned an academic to stop questioning the relationship with Enbridge because 'if this goes belly up my ass is on the line'. (YouTube)

Joe Arvai's tenure at the University of Calgary ended brusquely in July 2012 after the rising academic star balked at leading a new research institute that he felt would be perceived as little more than a corporate mouthpiece for Canada's largest pipeline company. 

But Arvai is not the only professor to leave the university over concerns its relationships with the oil industry were too cozy, a CBC investigation has found. 

01/11/15
Author: 
CBC staff
The faith-based KAIROS group organized an online public forum on fracking that took place simultaneously in Vancouver and Moncton. (Canadian Press)

B.C. community groups seeking information on dealing with fracking development in their province met with New Brunswickers via an online forum Saturday.

Community leaders, church groups and First Nations people in Vancouver linked up by video with like-minded people in Moncton to learn how to slow fracking developments in northern B.C. and to perhaps convince their government to place a moratorium on the process. 

It's been almost a year since New Brunswick declared a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.

31/10/15
Author: 
Derrick O'Keefe

 It may have worked during the campaign, but the new PM won’t be able to please both environmental activists and Big Oil for long.

29/10/15
Author: 
The Canadian Press

CALGARY -- Royal Dutch Shell is scrapping its Carmon Creek oilsands project in northwestern Alberta, citing a lack of pipelines to coastal waters as one reason for the decision.

The move comes after a review of the project's design and costs and where it stacks up against other projects Shell has in its portfolio.

The European energy giant first announced it would build the 80,000-barrel-a-day, steam-driven operation near Peace River, Alta., in October 2013.

25/10/15
Author: 
druojajay
Trudeau - Likely to deliver real change?

Justin Trudeau is providing people in Canada with things to celebrate. For starters, he is temperamentally the anti-Harper. Trudeau was seen shaking hands with passersby in a Montreal metro station, took (gasp) unscripted questions from journalists, and announced the withdrawal of Canadian bombers from Iraq and Syria. He reiterated election promises, and there’s some decent stuff in there.

Likely to deliver real change?

25/10/15
Author: 
David Bush and Doug Nesbitt
http://rankandfile.ca/2015/10/19/after-harper-confronting-the-liberals/

So there we have it. Harper is gone. The Liberals surged from third place to win in this marathon election. The NDP, which was leading in the polls in August, slowly lost steam after they promised to prioritize balancing the budget and refusing to tax the rich. Ever the opportunists, the Liberals seized on this opening and ran a campaign that rode of a wave popular discontent with the Harper government, drilled home the message that they would tax the rich and spend money on infrastructure to pull the economy out of recession.

25/10/15

[Website editor's note: See the cautionary book review about such schemes that follows.]


Startups have figured out how to remove carbon from the air. Will anyone pay them to do it? 

Three startups, Carbon Engineering, Global Thermostat and Climeworks, are making strides with technology that can directly remove carbon dioxide from the air. What they need now is a viable business model

15/10/15
Author: 
Jordan Press

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau’s national campaign co-chair is stepping down after he sent a detailed email to people behind the Energy East pipeline with advice on how and when to lobby a new government — including a Liberal minority.

Earlier in the day the Liberals stood by Dan Gagnier, saying he did not break any ethical standards. But in a statement later Wednesday, Gagnier said he didn’t want to be a distraction to the campaign.

“I deeply regret that the campaign has been affected by these negative, personal attacks,” the statement reads.

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