LNG - Fracking

No, Canada can’t save the planet by exporting more natural gas

16/12/19
Author: 
Editorial
Link: 
The Globe and Mail
LNG Canada

Dec. 12, 2019

The LNG Canada export plant, under construction on the northern coast of British Columbia, opens in 2025. At full capacity, the plant will produce about four-million tonnes of greenhouse gases each year, a large increase in provincial emissions.

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Canada
Carbon pricing
Climate Change
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Media outlets need to stop greenwashing fossil fuel industries

14/12/19
Author: 
Naomi Bénéteau Goldberg
Link: 
ricochet.media
Media outlets need to stop greenwashing fossil fuel industries

Dec. 13, 2019

While claiming to take the climate crisis seriously, some mainstream publications have become mouthpieces for GNL Québec

In the fall, over 250 media outlets got together and decided it was time to better tackle the biggest story of our time: the climate crisis.

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Canada
Climate Change
Energy
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B.C. and Alberta find common ground on international LNG credits

04/12/19
Author: 
Rob Shaw
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun
December 3, 2019
 
“The assertions from the premier are that if we sell them gas, magically their emissions will go down. I’m not convinced that will happen.”
 
-- NDP Premier John Horgan when he was leader of the opposition.
 
“There’s absolutely no evidence B.C. LNG will result in the use of less coal in China.” 
 
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Alberta
British Columbia
Climate Change
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Letter to the Editor: Stop peddling the pipeline fantasy

27/11/19
Author: 
Ross Belot
Link: 
National Observer

Nov. 26, 2019

Justin Trudeau and Jason Kenny are peddling a fantasy when it comes to fossil fuel development in Canada. Both play to Alberta’s desire for the boom years to return, rather than dealing with the likely future.

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Category: 
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Coal
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Tar Sands
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Conservative climate claims a cover for LNG exports

27/11/19
Author: 
Chris Turner
Link: 
National Observer
Jason Kenney and Justin Trudeau. File photo

n a recent speech at an oil industry conference, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney trafficked, as he often does, in climate inaccuracy. In itself, that’s not remarkable. The sun also rose and set that day.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Coal
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B.C. subsidizes fossil fuels to tune of hundreds of millions annually, according to study

25/11/19
Author: 
Matt Robinson
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun
November 25, 2019

"I knew that there were subsidies. I had no idea that we were literally giving up billions of dollars …"

— Tzeporah Berman, the International Program Director at advocacy group Stand.earth


B.C.’s provincial government provided at least $830 million in subsidies in 2017-18 for the production and consumption of fossil fuels, according to a new report out of the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

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British Columbia
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
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Enviros Tools of Russians? The Weird Conspiracy Theory Firing up Kenney’s Inquiry

22/11/19
Author: 
Geoff Dembicki
Link: 
The Tyee
Texas Republican Lamar Smith, a noted climate denier and big recipient of oil and gas political donations, led a House committee that produced a report suggesting environmentalists are manipulated by the Russian government.

SPECIAL REPORT: Alberta’s ‘anti-energy’ probe makes a debunked US report its must-read.

Nov. 22, 2019

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Alberta
British Columbia
Climate Change
Energy
Environmental Groups
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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Corporate Mapping Project reveals CPP ties to oil and gas, as pension fund denies influence

21/11/19
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
File photo of diesel fuel storage tanks at an oilsands facility in 2014. Pembina Institute Photo

November 20th 2019

Canada’s biggest pension fund says it's “unfathomable” that the fossil fuel sector could wield disproportionate influence over its investment decisions, after a new report claims members of its board of directors and staff are "entangled with the oil and gas industry."

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Category: 
Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
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City of Vancouver still far short of achieving 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target

21/11/19
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Link: 
Georgia Straight
In October, climate protesters filled the streets of Vancouver demanding more action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. JANET MCDONALD

November 19th, 2019

The City of Vancouver is rarely described as a climate laggard.

But a report shows it is falling far short of its Greenest City Action Plan goal for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide equivalents.

The latest update indicates there has only been a 12 percent drop in greenhouse-gas emissions from 2007 to 2018.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Climate Change
LNG - Fracking
Urban
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Dead Pipeline Walking

12/11/19
Author: 
Virginia Monk and Dave Ages
Category: 
British Columbia
Canada
Ecology/Environment
Indigenous Peoples
LNG - Fracking
Social
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