LNG - Fracking

Jan 2, 2017 - As oil prices rose and fell, the federal government somehow wrestled a national agreement on climate change — with two notable exceptions. The fates of pipelines that had consumed public interest for years were drawn, while others were punted into the future. Canada’s beleaguered oil and gas industry faced an uncertain year with a new Liberal government in Ottawa, and 2017 looks like it will have its own share of big shifts.

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British Columbia

Leaders’ three-way energy deal has high price

06/01/17

Author:

Caitlyn Vernon

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Times Colonist

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley have cooked up a sweet deal. Trudeau and Notley get their pipeline to tidewater, while Clark gets federal approval for the Site C dam and the Petronas liquefied fracked-gas plant.

The three-way political backscratching has a high price, and the people of British Columbia will be paying it.

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Rafe’s New Year’s letter to Trudeau: Time for PM to get to know BC…for real

02/01/17

Author:

Rafe Mair

Link:

The Commonsense Canadian

Justin Trudeau hasn’t learned much about BC in the time he lived here and from visits like this one to the central coast in 2014 (Flickr/Justin Trudeau)

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a lifelong, pretty old British Columbian who loves his province with the same passion I’m sure people in Trois Rivières love theirs. Your inferential calling BC’s patriotism into question because we will vigorously oppose your approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline demonstrates clearly that you’re quite unable to understand this, your connections to BC notwithstanding.

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'We are the ones who will make a difference,' says Grand Chief Stewart Phillip

31/12/16

Author:

David Ball

Link:

Metro

Metro asked B.C. public figures for their resolutions for 2017 — and what keeps them hopeful after a year panned by many as a bit of a write-off.

Dec 30, 2016 - Ahead of New Year's Day, Metro asked several B.C. public figures and artists for some of their resolutions for 2017 — and what keeps them hopeful after a year that's been panned by many as a bit of a write-off.

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British Columbia

LNG - Fracking

Oil - Pipelines

Pipeline halted after much opposition

29/12/16

Author:

Damien Fisher

Link:

Nashau Telegraph

2016 top 10 Stories

Kinder Morgan's $3 billion plan to build a 420-mile long natural gas pipeline stretching through Massachusetts and New Hampshire met with local opposition for more than a year before the project was finally scrapped in May.

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LNG - Fracking

Protest - Revolt

USA

LNG export investments plunge amid global glut

22/12/16

Author:

Ryan Collins

Link:

Calgary Herald

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Alberta

Global

LNG - Fracking

One evaluation of the recent Canadian climate 'framework'

22/12/16

Author:

Canadian Climate Network

Link:

Climate Action Network

OVERVIEW •

WHAT’S MISSING •

To view this 6 page, Dec 12, 2016 summary click here:

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Major EPA fracking study downplayed risks to US water supply, investigation finds

03/12/16

Author:

Tom DiChristopher

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CNBC

Environmental Protection Agency officials made critical last-minute changes to their presentation of a multiyear report on hydraulic fracturing, which served to downplay the oil and gas drilling method's threat to drinking water supplies, an investigation by APM Reports and Marketplace found.

Some of the agency's own scientists criticized the changes and rebuked the key conclusion, APM and Marketplace reported.

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