Joining thousands of people around the world on Saturday, September 8, for Rise for Climate Change, Powell River protesters gathered outside the office of Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons.
7:29am, Thursday, August 30th, 2018:
We’re in a boardroom high above downtown Vancouver, not far from Robson Street where I’m told there used to be a great hunting path. I’m on the Federal Court of Appeal’s website, refreshing my web browser obsessively.
VANCOUVER—The B.C. Green Party is calling for the province to undertake its own environmental assessment of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in the wake of last week’s Federal Court of Appeal decision to quash the project’s federal approval.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already pre-determined the outcome of any further assessment and consultation by repeatedly saying the pipeline will be built, said Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver.
LOS ANGELES — A pipeline company was convicted of nine criminal charges Friday for causing the worst California coastal spill in 25 years, a disaster that blackened popular beaches for miles, killed wildlife and hurt tourism and fishing.
A Santa Barbara County jury found Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline guilty of a felony count of failing to properly maintain its pipeline and eight misdemeanor charges, including killing marine mammals and protected sea birds.
From the lack of available pipeline capacity to the potential adoption of electric cars, there is no shortage of threats facing the Canadian oilsands. But the latest menace lies in a seemingly innocuous and highly common element: sulphur.
Please watch, and share our recent video on ATB's (Articulated Tug Barges) (The Nathan E Stewart was one). We are looking into these elusive petroleum product shipments more and more. One such finding is that they do business with KinderMorgan's Westridge terminal on a regular basis.
Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation at a news conference with several First Nations who were part of the Federal Court of Appeal case against the Trans Mountain expansion, after the court ruling last week. (Chantelle Bellrichard/CBC)
Liberal MPs have shut down an opposition attempt to have two senior ministers grilled over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project before Parliament resumes later this month.
An explosion at an oil refinery in the south of Germany has left several people injured. More than 1,800 people have been evacuated. [See video at link]
When I wrote to Justin Trudeau on October 25, 2015—almost three years ago—I warned him that it was critical to implement his promise to redo Trans Mountain’s review and fix the industry-captured National Energy Board as soon as possible.
