Oil - Pipelines

13/05/23
Author: 
David Thurton
Workers lay pipe during construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on farmland in Abbotsford, B.C. on May 3, 2023. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

May 13, 2023

Pipeline watchers say Ottawa may need to take a haircut if it wants to find a buyer

The overbudget Trans Mountain expansion project owes its lenders at least $23 billion and is looking to take on more private debt as the federal government shuts its wallet and construction costs skyrocket.

08/05/23
Author: 
Jean Chemnick, Pamela King and Robin Bravender
President Joe Biden speaks about climate change at Brayton Power Station in Somerset, Mass., last year. His administration is preparing to announce carbon regulations on power plants. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo

May 5, 2023

‘No other way to do it’: Biden about to go big on power plants

Historically strict EPA regulations on coal- and gas-fired power plants are due out. They face legal and political peril.

The Biden administration is poised to unveil its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation’s thousands of power plants — an effort that’s certain to bring a legal and political attack from conservatives but may disappoint some supporters of the president’s climate agenda.

01/05/23
Author: 
Bob Weber - The Canadian Press
An oilsands extraction facility is reflected in a tailings pond near the city of Fort McMurray, Alta., in this file photo. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)

Apr. 24, 2023

Pathways Alliance questions research, says industry calculations are world standard

New federal research suggests greenhouse gas emissions from the Alberta oilsands may be significantly underestimated, adding to a growing pile of studies that say our understanding of what is going into the atmosphere is incomplete.

22/04/23
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
Critics warn that as long as the oil and gas sector continues to grow, BC won’t meet its emissions targets. Photo via Coastal GasLink.

Apr. 21, 2023

But minister and experts say the government is making good progress.

19/04/23
Author: 
Ian Urquhart
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Canada is ‘an encouraging picture of progress’ even though oilsands emissions are record-breaking. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick via The Canadian Press.

Apr. 19, 2023

Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault’s ‘good news’ emissions update revealed a massive failure.

18/04/23
Author: 
Ted Franklin
Extinction Rebellion climate activists hold a banner in Lincoln's Inn Fields before a Rise and Rebel march organised to coincide with the end of, and anticipated failure of, the COP26 climate summit on 13th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

"By focusing on pressure campaigns against private actors with no direct effect on the fossil fuel industry, well-intentioned people inadvertently delay the necessary struggle to win and engage state power to phase out the extraction and production of fossil fuels.". . . . "Indeed, doing so buys into the neoliberal logic that government can do nothing when, in fact, only government can shut down the fossil fuel industry."

Apr. 4, 2023

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