Canada

07/02/22
Author: 
Eugene Kung - Staff Lawyer
TMX blog - West Coast Environmental Law
February 7, 2022

In the Before Times…

Two years ago, in February 2020, I bundled up and traveled to Ottawa to meet with MPs to discuss the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project (TMX). Little did I know that it would be my last work trip for a long time.

07/02/22
Author: 
Eugene Kung - Staff Lawyer
February 7, 2022

In the Before Times…

Two years ago, in February 2020, I bundled up and traveled to Ottawa to meet with MPs to discuss the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project (TMX). Little did I know that it would be my last work trip for a long time.

05/02/22
Author: 
Emma Jackson
Trucker image

Feb. 2, 2022

Defeating the growth of the far-right means acknowledging real grievances and countering their narrative with an inclusive left-wing populism

Three years ago, the last time a large group of truckers rolled into Ottawa, I found myself on Parliament Hill locked in a standoff.

03/02/22
Author: 
Chris Varcoe
A pipe yard servicing government-owned oil pipeline operator Trans Mountain is seen in Kamloops JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Feb. 3, 2022

CALGARY — After facing interruptions caused by volatile weather and the pandemic, the Trans Mountain expansion is expected to run over budget by several billion dollars — and the federally owned pipeline project won’t be completed this year as planned.

Work to expand the oil pipeline is now forecast to cost more than $17 billion and likely won’t be done until sometime in 2023, sources say.

03/02/22
Author: 
The Energy Mix
EcoFlight - fracking

Feb. 2, 2022

The United States, Norway, and Canada are set to produce more oil this year than ever before, despite solemn pronouncements at last year’s COP 26 climate summit on the urgent need for climate action, Oil Change International asserts in a new analysis.

03/02/22
Author: 
Protect the Planet/Stop TMX
Climate Crime Scene
For Immediate Release Feb. 1, 2022
Conflict of interest: CER overrules concerns about Fraser River re-drilling by Trans Mountain
03/02/22
Author: 
First Nations leaders
We are the power - poster
The Struggle against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline and for Indigenous sovereignty on Wet'suwet'en territory continues despite the pressures from the RCMP and industry, and an ongoing pandemic. 

01/02/22
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Western sandpipers take flight in front of the Roberts Bank port. A proposed expansion to the facility would put them and other shorebirds at risk, according to Environment Canada. Photo by Jason Puddifoot

Feb. 1, 2022

A damning document from Environment Canada that warned of disastrous environmental impacts was withheld from a key stage of an environmental assessment for a proposed Metro Vancouver shipping terminal.

Scientists who authored the report say the project threatens local wildlife, particularly the western sandpiper — a species of shorebird unique to the West Coast of North America that feeds in the nutrient-rich Fraser Delta during migration.

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