Environmental Groups

'Global LNG Boom Must Be Stopped in Its Tracks,' Climate Coalition Tells Biden

13/04/23

Author:

Julia Conley

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$A woman takes part in a protest against fracked gas exports on June 15, 2022 in New York. (Photo: John Smith/VIEWpress)$

Apr. 12, 2023

"Every LNG terminal that comes online risks locking in decades of avoidable climate pollution and environmental injustice."

Ahead of a planned global summit on the climate and environment in Japan, campaigners on Wednesday urged the Biden administration to resist pressure from Japanese officials to expand public investments in liquefied natural gas, which is derived from fracking and the drilling of oil and gas wells, warning that proponents have wrongly claimed the gas is a "clean" alternative to other fossil fuels.

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Canada’s banks have sunk $1 trillion into fossil fuels since 2016 — and risk becoming ‘overexposed’ in the energy transition

13/04/23

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Canadian banks are overwhelmingly financing the oilsands as foreign banks divest from the region. Photo by Andrew S. Wright

Apr. 13, 2023

Despite pledging to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, Canada’s Big 5 banks have invested over $1 trillion in coal, oil and gas companies since 2016, upping the risk to the Canadian economy as the energy transition unfolds.

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‘How dare you dismiss this?’ Indigenous, climate leaders shut out of RBC meeting room

06/04/23

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs Gisdaya and Na'Moks and other representatives from the nation attend RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon on April 5, 2023. Photo by Katie Wilson

Apr. 6, 2023

Indigenous leaders and climate advocates say they were met with the “highest insult” Wednesday as security guards turned them away from the main room of RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon.

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US auctions giant stretch of Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling

02/04/23

Author:

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

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Nation of Change

Mar. 31, 2023

SOURCE EcoWatch

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Oilsands companies’ ‘false’ net zero ads spur complaint to Competition Bureau

17/03/23

Author:

Marco Chown Oved

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The Star

Mar. 16, 2023

If found to have breached competition law, companies could theoretically face a fine of $9 billion.

The Pathways Alliance of oilsands companies has blanketed the country with a false advertising campaign designed to influence government and manipulate public support for the industry with the highest carbon emissions in Canada, according to a complaint filed with the Competition Bureau on Thursday.

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B.C. approves Indigenous-led Cedar LNG project

15/03/23

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CBC - The Early Edition

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CBC - The Early Edition

Mar. 15, 2023

The $3-billion Cedar LNG facility proposed by the Haisla Nation has been granted an environmental assessment certificate by the provincial government - but critics say the approval does not support BC's climate goals. We hear from Peter McCartney with the Wilderness Committee.

Listen here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-91-the-early-edition/clip/15972401-b.c.-approves-indigenous-led-cedar-lng-project

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BC Approves New LNG Plant, Introduces Oil and Gas Emission Caps

15/03/23

Author:

Andrew MacLeod

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The Tyee

Premier David Eby announced approval for the Haisla Nation’s LNG project Tuesday. Chief Councillor Crystal Smith, in black dress and white shirt, said the decision ‘is about changing the course of history for my nation and Indigenous peoples everywhere.’ Photo via BC government.

Mar. 15, 2023

Haisla Nation welcomes green light, but critics sound warning on threat to province’s climate plan.

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'Economic Crime': Cost of Canada's Trans Mountain Pipeline Soars by Billions, Again

14/03/23

Author:

Brett Wilkins

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Common Dreams

Climate activists use a mock oil pipeline to block the entrance to the Canadian Embassy on April 18, 2018 to protest the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. (Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images)

Mar. 13, 2023

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Big Oil and Gas is shameless

11/03/23

Author:

John Young

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National Observer

LNG Canada site construction in Kitimat. British Columbians will not end up using any of the energy produced. Credit: LNG Canada

Mar. 10, 2023

You’re probably busy just trying to make a living, so you may not have noticed that the world’s biggest oil and gas companies are making a killing.

Again.

Still.

More than ever.

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B.C. about to decide on biggest pipeline yet

09/03/23

Author:

Kai Nagata

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National Observer

A proposed gas pipeline in B.C. would run through the Skeena watershed. Photo by Brian Huntington / Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition

Mar. 9, 2023

B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman will soon decide the fate of Enbridge’s Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Project — and possibly his government. First approved in 2014, the 48-inch pipeline would carry fracked gas across a complex patchwork of sovereign territories to a new LNG terminal on the coast.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Environmental Groups

"Every LNG terminal that comes online risks locking in decades of avoidable climate pollution and environmental injustice."

If found to have breached competition law, companies could theoretically face a fine of $9 billion.

The $3-billion Cedar LNG facility proposed by the Haisla Nation has been granted an environmental assessment certificate by the provincial government - but critics say the approval does not support BC's climate goals. We hear from Peter McCartney with the Wilderness Committee.

Listen here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-91-the-early-edition/clip/15972401-b.c.-approves-indigenous-led-cedar-lng-project

Haisla Nation welcomes green light, but critics sound warning on threat to province’s climate plan.

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