LNG - Fracking

The time-bomb town Ontario didn’t defuse

19/08/22

Author:

EMMA GRANEY, CHEN WANG, JEFF GRAY AND COLIN GRAF

Link:

The first sign that something was wrong in Wheatley, Ont., came via a call to 911 on June 2, 2021, at 2:22 p.m. Building owner Whit Thiele had discovered a gas leak.

[Web page editor's note: See the original source for the complete content.]

Mr. Thiele had bought 15 Erie St. North in 2016 and turned it into a popular local pub called The Pogue, but the business had struggled during the pandemic and eventually closed.

Category:

Canada

Ecology/Environment

LNG - Fracking

The world is ablaze and the oil industry just posted record profits. It’s us or them

12/08/22

Author:

Hamilton Nolan

Link:

The Guardian

‘The war in Ukraine, which has devastated a region of the world and displaced millions, has helped energy companies by driving oil and gas prices higher.’ Photograph: David Goldman/AP

Aug. 2, 2022

Read the full article.

Category:

Canada was eyeing Europe’s gas market months before Russian invasion

04/08/22

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

Jonathan WIlkinson speaks at an event at the United Nations' COP26 climate conference on Nov. 6, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Photo by Karwai Tang via COP26 / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Aug. 4, 2022

Canada was quietly trying to muscle in on Europe’s gas market months before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed the continent’s energy security to mainstream attention, documents obtained by Canada’s National Observer reveal.

Read the full article.

Category:

'Alternative' energy and less energy

Cost of Coastal GasLink pipeline leaps 70% to $11.2 billion

29/07/22

Author:

Christopher Reynolds

Link:

National Observer

Until Thursday, the cost estimate for the 670-kilometre pipeline, which aims to carry natural gas to the LNG Canada processing and export facility in Kitimat, B.C., stood at $6.6 billion. File photo

July 28th 2022

The projected cost of the contentious Coastal GasLink pipeline spanning northern British Columbia has jumped 70 per cent to $11.2 billion in the wake of a freshly inked deal between operator TC Energy Corp. and the group building a liquified natural gas terminal on the West Coast.

Read the full article.

Category:

The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change

28/07/22

Author:

Jane McMullen

Link:

BBC

July 23, 2022

Thirty years ago, a bold plan was cooked up to spread doubt and persuade the public that climate change was not a problem. The little-known meeting - between some of America's biggest industrial players and a PR genius - forged a devastatingly successful strategy that endured for years, and the consequences of which are all around us.

Read the full article.

Category:

Canada’s fossil-fuelled sprint away from climate safety

27/07/22

Author:

Barry Saxifrage

Link:

National Observer

Chart - Fossil fuel burning keeps rising in Canada, and Canadians now burn more per person than any of our peers in G7 and European Union nations.

July 27, 2022

Burning fossil fuels is the root cause of climate breakdown, ocean acidification and the choking air pollution that is killing millions every year.

Read the full article.

Category:

'Alternative' energy and less energy

Next Step: We’re occupying schools across the world to protest climate inaction- Youth activists involved in End Fossil: Occupy!

27/07/22

Author:

Youth Activists

Link:

The Guardian

A climate protest in Australia this May. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Jul 26, 2022

Read the full article.

Category:

Oil and gas industry could get more time to meet 2030 emissions targets, minister says

25/07/22

Author:

Elise von Scheel

Link:

CBC News

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault speaks during a news conference last fall. He says Ottawa could give oil and gas companies more time to fully meet 2030 emissions reduction targets. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

July 23, 2022

Environment minister floats extended timeline for sector, which accounts for 26 per cent of national emissions

Canada's environment minister says the federal government could give oil and gas companies extra time to fully meet 2030 emissions reduction targets.

"[We] recognize that some of the measures that will be needed to achieve those deep emission reductions might require more time than what we have between now and 2030," Steven Guilbeault said in an interview with CBC Radio's The House.

Category:

Oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years

22/07/22

Author:

Damian Carrington

Link:

The Guardian

An offshore oil rig in the Pechora Sea, Russia Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Jul 21, 2022

Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert

The oil and gas industry has delivered $2.8bn (£2.3bn) a day in pure profit for the last 50 years, a new analysis has revealed.

Read the full article.

Category:

'Fossils' Greenwash Blue Hydrogen for Profit

14/07/22

Author:

Danielle Paradis

Link:

DeSmog

Jason Kenney's Alberta government promotes hydrogen in Edmonton in October 2020. Credit: Alberta Newsroom (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

July 5, 2022

Critics say the best argument for blue hydrogen is to “keep the fossil fuel industry in business.”

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. It’ll power everything from airplanes to long-haul trucks and will even heat our homes.

Read the full article.

Category:

'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate Change

Industry Spin

LNG - Fracking

LNG - Fracking

Environment minister floats extended timeline for sector, which accounts for 26 per cent of national emissions

Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert

Critics say the best argument for blue hydrogen is to “keep the fossil fuel industry in business.”

Pages