A handful of anti-pipeline activists with lock cutters and the will to get arrested have become Canadian oil producers’ newest hurdle to delivering crude to markets.
With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed that they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fossil fuel use, the need to curb and reduce emissions is urgent.
Outdated computer systems, inaccurate information and confusion within Canada’s national pipeline regulator is putting public safety and the environment at risk, warns a new audit tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made headlines Tuesday when he met with Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, an outspoken opponent of the proposed Energy East pipeline.
[Website editor's note: This article is a useful summary of provincial emission-reduction policies, or rather the lack thereof.]
Provincial premiers boast leadership in the country’s effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but achieving their own lofty ambitions will require political courage and aggressive policies to drive fundamental changes in the way Canadians produce and consume energy.
A leading columnist in Canada's Globe and Mail daily newspaper known in the past to voice concern about the global warming emergency has penned two columns recently in support of Alberta tar sands pipelines, including praising the efforts of the premier of Alberta to sell the construction of these project to an increasingly sceptical and wary public in Canada
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre and mayors of surrounding cities and boroughs say they are firmly opposed to TransCanada Corp.’s Energy East oil pipeline project, warning that the environmental risk far outweighs any economic benefits.
“They didn’t do their homework, obviously,” Mr. Coderre said on Thursday about Calgary-based TransCanada’s $15.7-billion pipeline that would move 1.1 million barrels of crude a day from Western Canada to East Coast refineries and shipping points and pass through heavily populated areas in the Montreal region.
