Oil - Pipelines

30/09/17
Author: 
James Wood
Thousands of people march during a protest against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, in Vancouver, B.C., in November 2016.

After years of heated political battles over the oilsands, a question looms — are passions cooling for a more peaceful future?

In the last decade, the oilsands have landed in the crosshairs of environmentalists who have taken aim at Alberta over the province’s high greenhouse gas emissions and tried to block pipeline projects intended to open new markets for its bitumen resource.

28/09/17
Author: 
JWN Staff

If Alberta doesn’t change how it requires companies to finance their own oil and gas well cleanup costs, the energy industry and, ultimately, taxpayers in Alberta face cleanup costs of up to $8 billion, according to a report by the C.D. Howe Institute.

28/09/17
Author: 
Telesur staff
A member of an Indigenous community in Ecuador shows the contamination by Chevron in the Amazon. | Photo: AFP

Ecuador will open a new lawsuit in Canada against the multinational oil giant next month.

A group of Indigenous citizens from Canada is visiting the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador to document environmental damage reportedly committed by multinational oil giant Chevron.

27/09/17
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL RULES AGAINST KINDER MORGAN AND GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

Crown fails to look-out for the best interests of the Band

27/09/17
Author: 
National Observer & The Canadian Press

The National Energy Board has issued a stern warning to the company building a major west coast pipeline expansion about apparent violations of federal law.

 

The federal regulator called Kinder Morgan to task this week for installing mats in streams to discourage fish from spawning where the pipeline is to be built.

26/09/17
Author: 
Natasha Lennard
Standing Rock protest

Rattler sat on the sofa scrolling through his phone. It was a drizzling, cold spring day in Bismarck, North Dakota, but he wasn’t going outside much anyway. A great mountain of a man with thick black hair to his waist and a disarming gentleness, Rattler made the objects around him look small. The sofa on which he sat, the phone he held, the homey living room where we met, the whole city of Bismarck seemed too small for Rattler. But his bail conditions and an ankle monitor confined him to the area for over half a year as he awaits trial.

17/09/17
Author: 
Daniel J. Graeber
Not enough done to address safety and the environment on the pre-consruction phase, regulators tell Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion planners. Map courtesy of Kinder Morgan.

Canadian energy regulator said planners haven't done enough yet to address safety and the environment in a pre-construction audit.

Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The parties behind the Trans Mountain oil pipeline to Canada's western coast haven't yet completed what they need to for the environment, a regulator found.

15/09/17
Author: 
Staff
The District of Saanich has voted to send a letter to greenhouse gas producing fossil fuel companies to hold them accountable for climate change costs. (Martin Meissner/The Associated Press)

Council says taxpayers shouldn't be the only one paying for climate change infrastructure costs

Councillors in the District of Saanich voted unanimously this week to try holding some of the world's largest fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change in their region.

Council pledged to send a letter to 20 large companies involved in extracting fossil fuels, asking them to pay their share of the municipality's climate change costs.

15/09/17
Author: 
Jesse Snyder
oil drilling

If the momentum continues next year, Canada could displace Iraq as the fourth largest producer in the world

Canadian oil production could edge closer to the five million barrel-per-day milestone in 2018, with supplies expected to grow the second fastest among major producers in coming years, a new report says.

13/09/17
Author: 
Sharon Lerner

What's really floating in the flood waters, settling into the soil and water supply? Exxon Mobil Is Still Pumping Toxins Into Black Community in Texas 17 Years After Civil Rights Complaint.

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