Ecology/Environment

02/11/18
Author: 
Margaret Mcgregor, Courtney Howard & Melissa Lem
Image of gas well flare by World Bank

In October, the B.C. government celebrated a decision by private-sector investors to proceed with LNG Canada, a $40 billion infrastructure project in Kitimat to export “natural” gas. Yet somehow much of the media coverage neglects to mention that this gas is extracted by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which is now the primary method for natural gas production in Canada. Why are so many media and government announcements studiously avoiding the “F” word?

02/11/18
Author: 
Mike De Souza, Carolyn Jarvis, Emma McIntosh & David Bruser

Nov 1, 2018 - Cleaning up Alberta's fossil fuel industry could cost an estimated $260 billion, internal regulatory documents warn.

The staggering financial liabilities for the energy industry’s graveyard of spent facilities were spelled out by a high-ranking official of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) in a February presentation to a private audience in Calgary.

30/10/18
Author: 
Nicholas Mainville

Huge Swath of Amazonian Rain Forest Freed Up from Gold Mining

Oct. 29, 2018

30/10/18
Author: 
Chris Hatch

CBC News has been taking criticism for its coverage of the “fresh opportunities” for Canadian businesses under Brazil’s president-elect. Although the public broadcaster has shifted its tone slightly, the original article stands and the criticism keeps mounting.

30/10/18
Author: 
Niclas Rolander
October 25, 2018
 
  • Swedish prosecutor now in ‘final phase’ of filing charges
  • Lundin executives face charges over actions in southern Sudan
30/10/18
Author: 
Darryl Fears
An aerial image of an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, taken on April 28, 2018. (Oscar Garcia-Pineda)

 October 21, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — An oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history.

22/10/18
Author: 
Karen Ogen-Toews
Shell Integrated Gas & New Energies Director Maarten Wetselaar, front left, LNG Canada CEO Andy Calitz, front right, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, back right, applaud after a final investment declaration was signed by LNG Canada joint venture participants to build an LNG export facility in Kitimat, during a news conference in Vancouver on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS

Editor: This article shows the need for a change in the way people survive and find satisfaction in their lives.  At the very least governments should be encouraging jobs in producing alternative/sustainable energy.  The article shows a misunderstanding of the effects of fracked gas which is a greenhouse gas contributing to global climate change. The damaging effects of fracking, pipeline building and ultimate burning of the gas on the environment and climate are overlooked.)

17/10/18
Author: 
COPE

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Coalition of Progressive Electors

13/10/18
Author: 
Brent Patterson
dirty water

[Editor: And on the theme of what could be done with $4.5 billion and counting!]

The United Nations definition of genocide includes "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" and "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group."

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