Canada

Canadian Oil & Gas Investment to Grow 11% This Year

04/03/23

Author:

Amanda Stephenson - The Canadian Press

Link:

Financial Post

Storage is shown at the Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery in Detroit. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said it expects investment in oil and natural gas production in Canada to rise above pre-pandemic levels. PHOTO BY PAUL SANCYA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mar. 2, 2023

'Feels pretty good': Oil and gas investment in Canada to hit $40 billion in 2023, CAPP says

Up 11 per cent from last year, but still well off levels in 2014 when oil prices last boomed

CALGARY — Investment in oil and gas production in Canada will jump by 11 per cent to hit $40 billion in 2023, the country’s largest fossil fuel industry group said Wednesday.

Demand big question for oil prices this year

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As EV batteries consume more lithium, report warns against increased mining of it

02/03/23

Author:

Jason Vermes

Link:

What on Earth - CBC radio

Batteries destined for Volkswagen electric cars stand stacked at a Dresden, Germany, production facility. Lithium is increasingly needed for the batteries that power electric vehicles. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Feb. 25, 2023

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Charter violations - Wet’suwet’en defendants allege Charter violations, seek stay of court proceedings

28/02/23

Author:

Gidim’ten Checkpoint

Link:

Yintah Access

PRINCE GEORGE, BC - February 28, 2023: A dozen Wet’suwet’en land defenders and supporters have applied to the Supreme Court of British Columbia to have criminal contempt charges stayed in light of widespread Charter violations stemming from police misconduct.

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Canada’s Emissions Up 2.8% in 2021 with Fossil Fuels Leading the Rise

27/02/23

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Primary Author: Mitchell Beer

Link:

The Energy Mix

Feb, 23, 2023

Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 2.8% in 2021, and fossil fuels accounted for more than half of the total, according to an “early estimate” released today by the Canadian Climate Institute (CCI).

The Institute’s analysis shows emissions continuing to “decouple” from GDP, so that each unit of economic activity produces less climate pollution. But the country’s total greenhouse gas output increased by 19 million tonnes, to a total of 691 megatonnes, in a year when the economy was just beginning to restart after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The ‘Last Ice Area’ is disappearing

27/02/23

Author:

Avery Schuyler Nunn

Link:

National Observer

An iceberg is frozen in place by sea ice in North Star Bay, Greenland. Photo by Jeremy Harbeck / NASA Earth Observatory

Feb. 27, 2023

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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Risk of ‘death spiral’ for Enbridge increases: rate hike application

22/02/23

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

Death Spiral - Illustration by Ata Ojani

Feb. 22, 2023

Fossil fuel giant Enbridge faces the risk of a “death spiral” as the energy transition to renewables unfolds, according to evidence the company filed with the Ontario regulator. A death spiral could occur when customers, fed up with the increasing costs of gas, switch to cleaner and cheaper sources of energy.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Debt-plagued Trans Mountain Corp. bought carbon credits from obscure seaweed cattle feed company that isn’t operating

21/02/23

Author:

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Link:

National Observer

Researchers have found that adding some types of seaweed to cattle feed can help reduce the methane emitted from their gut. Photo by Jesse Winter/National Observer

Feb. 21, 2023

Trans Mountain Corporation purchased carbon credits from a tiny, non-functioning Alberta startup proposing to produce seaweed-based additives that reduce methane emissions from cows, Canada's National Observer has found.

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Canada Health Care Deal Lacks Key Conditions

20/02/23

Author:

David Macdonald

Link:

CCPA Monitor

Feb. 15, 2023

There’s more money on the table—but without adequate strings attached, the provinces could end up spending it on tax cuts instead of fixing health care.

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As emergency rooms are overwhelmed, surgery wait times continue to lengthen, and under-resourced childrens’ hospitals face surges related to viral infections like COVID, the provincial and territorial governments have accepted the federal government’s new health care funding deal.

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Will Ottawa 'Spend What It Takes" on Climate?

20/02/23

Author:

Chris Hatch

Link:

National Observer

The Belgica trapped in the Bellingshausen Sea. Photo from the Norwegian Polar Institute / National Library of Norway

February 17th, 2023

Melting ice and cold hard cash

Not so long ago, on Valentines Day 1899, on a planet quite different from our own, the crew of the Belgica finally cut their ship free of Antarctic ice. The ice was seven feet thick and it would take another full month to chop and blast their way to open water. The sailors had been trapped in the ice for 13 months.

Among the crew was a certain Roald Amundsen, as well as the photographer Frederick Cook. As ice gripped the Belgica in 1898, Cook wrote in his diary:

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Fisheries Department confirms closure of 15 Discovery Islands salmon farms

18/02/23

Author:

The Canadian Press

Link:

Campbell River Mirror

Aquatic science biologist Shawn Stenhouse releases a Atlantic salmon back into its tank during a Department of Fisheries and Oceans fish health audit at the Okisollo fish farm near Campbell River, B.C. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. A Liberal promise to transition salmon farms in British Columbia from ocean net pens to closed containment systems in just over five years is being slammed as careless by the aquaculture industry but applauded by a wild salmon advocate who says the sooner the better. THE CANADIAN PRE

Feb. 17, 2023

Canada will not renew licences for open-net Atlantic salmon farms, citing risks to wild salmon

Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has announced the federal government will not renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms around British Columbia’s Discovery Islands.

Murray says in a news release the Discovery Islands area is a key migration route for wild salmon where narrow passages bring migrating juvenile salmon into close contact with the farms.

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Canada

'Feels pretty good': Oil and gas investment in Canada to hit $40 billion in 2023, CAPP says

Up 11 per cent from last year, but still well off levels in 2014 when oil prices last boomed

There’s more money on the table—but without adequate strings attached, the provinces could end up spending it on tax cuts instead of fixing health care.

Executive Summary

Melting ice and cold hard cash

Canada will not renew licences for open-net Atlantic salmon farms, citing risks to wild salmon

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