LNG - Fracking

'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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RBC was the world's top fossil fuel funder in 2022

13/04/23

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

RBC CEO David McKay is broadcast on a laptop screen at the Royal Bank of Canada annual general meeting in Toronto on April 7, 2022. Photo by Christopher Katsarov/National Observer

Apr. 13, 2023

Canada’s largest bank provided more money to the fossil fuel sector last year than any other bank in the world, new financial data reveals.

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Fossil Economy Collapsing Soon, Rapid Transition Our Only Hope

08/04/23

Author:

Nafeez Ahmed,

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Resilience

Gas Station. Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel / Unsplash

This dire forecast may be overly pessimistic. Unfortunately, it's consistent with the continuing history of market economics blocking most attempts at increasing social-economic planning.

-- Gene McGuckin

Mar. 29, 2023

originally published by Age of Transformation

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Critics Warn G20's LNG Subsidies Killing Hope for Livable Future

07/04/23

Author:

Jessica Corbett

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Common Dreams

Pipes for a new pipeline to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a floating terminal lie on a construction site in Germany on March 28, 2023. (Photo: Sina Schuldt/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Apr. 5, 2023

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How Europe Escaped an Energy Crisis

07/04/23

Author:

Paul Hockenos

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The Tyee

Wind turbines in the German countryside. After a short fallback on fossil fuels, Europe is on track to outpace its pledge to generate 40 per cent of its total energy from renewables by 2030. Image via Shutterstock.

Apr. 6, 2023

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

‘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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Raising emissions while pledging to lower them — British Columbia’s Orwellian LNG gambit

05/04/23

Author:

J David Hughes

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Policy Note

Raising emissions while pledging to lower them — British Columbia’s Orwellian LNG gambit

Mar. 23, 2023

In 2007, then-BC premier Gordon Campbell passed the “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act” committing BC to a 33 per cent reduction in emissions from 2007 levels by 2020.

Despite premier Campbell’s good intentions, emissions in 2020 were down just 1.6 per cent.

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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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B.C. RCMP make arrests at pipeline protest site following alleged 'swarming incidents'

31/03/23

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CBC News

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CBC News

Multiple officers were involved in the arrests. Police have not said whether anyone they took into custody are suspected of being involved in the alleged 'swarming'. (Submitted by Jennifer Wickham/Gidim’ten Checkpoint)

Mar. 29, 2023

Five people were arrested at a camp on traditional Wet'suwet'en territory in northwestern B.C. on Wednesday.

Sleydo', a spokesperson for the Gidimt'en checkpoint, said Mounties in multiple police vehicles arrived at the checkpoint around 10:30 a.m. PT, though she was not on site when it happened.

"They immediately began arresting people, as far as we know," Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, said in an interview with CBC News.

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LNG - Fracking

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