Oil - Pipelines

False oil price narrative used to scare Canadians into accepting Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

20/01/19
Author: 
Robyn Allan
Link: 
National Observer

November 26th 2018

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is aggressively advancing a false narrative about heavy oil’s deep discount. She presents the problem in two parts, neither of which stand up to scrutiny.

First, Notley purports that the abnormally wide price spread affects every barrel of heavy oil leading to millions of dollars a day in losses to the Canadian economy. And second, that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is crucial. Neither of these claims are supported by the facts.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
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Burnaby Mountain workshop explodes into fire next to Kinder Morgan tank farm

20/01/19
Author: 
Chris Campbell
Link: 
Burnaby Now
A workshop on Burnaby Mountain burned to the ground Saturday night. SHANE MACKICHAN PHOTOS
Jan. 19, 2019
 
When Burnaby assistant fire chief Barry Mawhinney headed out to Burnaby Mountain on a 911 call Saturday night, he looked up and realized it was going to be a stubborn one.

He could see flames shooting into the air.​

“You could see this when I left the station,” Mawhinney said around 10 p.m. Saturday night after a team of 34 firefighters had managed to finally put out the fire at an unoccupied workshop.

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British Columbia
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Firefighters scramble to contain fire burning on Burnaby Mountain

20/01/19
Author: 
CBC staff
Link: 
CBC News

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British Columbia
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Environmental lawyers applaud Victoria’s recommendation of a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies

18/01/19
Author: 
West Coast Environmental Law

For Immediate Release – January 18, 2019

Environmental lawyers applaud Victoria’s recommendation of a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies

Category: 
British Columbia
Climate Change
Oil - Pipelines
Urban
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Alberta has no one to blame but itself for its current woes

18/01/19
Author: 
David Olive
Link: 
The Star

History records very few instances of people getting out of a jam by throwing a temper tantrum.

Yet that has been Alberta’s response in coping with the latest downturn in its fortunes.

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Alberta
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Indigenous ownership won't solve problems with Trans Mountain pipeline, says Squamish Nation councillor

18/01/19
Author: 
Padraig Moran
Link: 
CBC Radio The Current

Jan. 17

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
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NDP grapples with pipelines, consent, and reconciliation

15/01/19
Author: 
Vaughn Palmer
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun
B.C. Premier John Horgan, front, and Hereditary Chief David Mungo Knox, back left, of the Kwakiutl First Nation, help raise a replica of a Haida totem pole on the traditional territory of the Semiahmoo First Nation, at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday September 21, 2018. DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS

 January 14, 2019

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Category: 
British Columbia
Ecology/Environment
Energy
Indigenous Peoples
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
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Trudeau, Horgan under fire for downplaying Aboriginal title following RCMP raid of Wet’suwet’en

11/01/19
Author: 
Justin Brake
Link: 
APTN News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was criticized Wednesday in Kamloops for the RCMP’s raid of a check point and camp on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory earlier this week.

January 11, 2019 

B.C. Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau both broke their silence Wednesday on a pipeline company’s injunction against members of the Unist’ot’en House and Gidimt’en Clan, and the RCMP’s raid Monday on unceded Wet’sewet’en territory.

But observers say the leaders were misleading, or skirted fundamental questions related to Indigenous jurisdiction and title at the heart of the conflict around the LNG project in northern B.C.

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British Columbia
Canada
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Horgan Goes from Lion to Lamb on the Trans Mountain Pipeline

11/01/19
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Link: 
The Tyee
The politician who once promised to use ‘every tool in the toolbox’ to protect B.C.’s coastal economy and environment now appears mostly tool-less and toothless. Photo: BC Government Flickr.

BC still opposes the project, but it’s not leading.

When the National Energy Board announced conditional approval for the Trans Mountain pipeline project in 2016, BC NDP leader John Horgan sent party members an important letter.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Fisheries
Indigenous Peoples
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Demonstrations block traffic in support of Indigenous pipeline protesters in B.C.

09/01/19
Author: 
CTVNews.ca Staff
Link: 
CTV News
[Editor: see videos of protests from across Canada at link]
 
CTVNews.ca's Josh Dehaas, with files from CTV's Kevin Gallagher in Ottawa and Melanie Nagy in Vancouver 
Published Tuesday, January 8, 2019 11:09AM EST 
Last Updated Wednesday, January 9, 2019 9:46AM EST
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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Indigenous Peoples
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
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