(Editor`s note: This article from the Financial Post shows how the oil industry keeps on trying to get their product to "tide water"!)
nation-building project, endorsed by the Assembly of First Nations, should be the top infrastructure, trade and First Nations priority for the new Trudeau government.
It is the proposal to build a railway from Alberta to Alaska, supported by native groups along way, that could carry 1.5 million barrels a day from the oil sands to the super tanker port in Valdez Alaska.
The Quebec government says it will be even tougher for TransCanada Corp. to get the province’s approval for its Energy East oil pipeline now that the company has scrapped plans for a marine export terminal on the St. Lawrence River.
A TransCanada whistleblower is alarmed by the National Energy Board's (NEB) recent investigation of the energy infrastructure company, saying it downplays concerns about pipeline safety and regulation compliance.
The 55-page NEB report concludes that 10 of the 16 allegations filed against TransCanada could not be verified, and that public safety and environment was never at risk.
A federal regulator will allow Shell Canada Ltd. to begin exploration drilling off Nova Scotia after it reduced the number of days it would take the company to bring in capping technology in the event of a subsea well blowout.
The company says it would have a capping stack on site within 12 to 13 days after previously saying it would take up to 21 days.
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board said Tuesday it is satisfied that Shell is taking all reasonable precautions to protect safety and the environment.
Back in 1990, as the debate over climate change was heating up, a dissident shareholder petitioned the board of Exxon, one of the world’s largest oil companies, imploring it to develop a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from its production plants and facilities.
The board’s response: Exxon had studied the science of global warming and concluded it was too murky to warrant action. The company’s “examination of the issue supports the conclusions that the facts today and the projection of future effects are very unclear.”
The Squamish First Nation has given the green light to the $1.7 billion Woodfibre LNG project in the form of a Squamish environmental certificate.
Squamish council has issued an environmental certificate to Woodfibre LNG, but has yet to give one to FortisBC, which would build the pipeline infrastructure needed to supply the plant with gas.
However, both FortisBC and Woodfibre have agreed to all 25 conditions that the Squamish have set out for approving the project.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — MILLIONS of Americans once wanted to smoke. Then they came to understand how deadly tobacco products were. Tragically, that understanding was long delayed because the tobacco industry worked for decades to hide the truth, promoting a message of scientific uncertainty instead.
The same thing has happened with climate change, as Inside Climate News, a nonprofit news organization, has been reporting in a series of articles based on internal documents from Exxon Mobil dating from the 1970s and interviews with former company scientists and employees.
As Alberta’s NDP government grapples with a cratering economy while simultaneously pondering ways to help burnish the province’s tawdry environmental image, debate inside Premier Rachel Notley’s administration has been guided somewhat by an existential question: Why are we here?
VICTORIA — Cabinet minister Rich Coleman admitted to being caught off guard this week by news of potentially “catastrophic” lapses in safety at the Malaysian operations of Petronas, the company the B.C. Liberals are counting on to build the first liquefied natural gas terminal here in B.C.
“I had not had a chance to see it or read it,” Coleman told me Friday, referring to the 732-page audit that exposed concerns ranging from decades-long delays in inspections to corrosion that endangered the structural integrity of the company’s offshore oil and gas platforms.
