Oil - Pipelines

15/11/16
Author: 
Oliver Milman
 Pipeline leading to the Syncrude Canada Ltd upgrader plant sits at the company’s mine near Fort McMurray in Canada. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tuesday 15 November 2016 

Government subsidy to gas and oil companies undermine Trudeau’s plan to put national price on carbon dioxide by 2018, environmental report warned

15/11/16
Author: 
Mark Hume

Published Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 12:01AM EST

More than 1,000 early-career scientists from across Canada have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and key members of his cabinet urging the government to do a better job of assessing the environmental impacts of developments.

The scientists say they are “concerned that current environmental assessments and regulatory decision-making processes lack scientific rigour,” and that the health of Canadians and the environment are being put at risk.

14/11/16
Author: 
Nick Fillmore

Sometimes huge issues just slide along under the radar until, all of a sudden, they blow up. The shock can come from a brown envelope slid under a door, a "scoop" in the media, or an opposition politician discovering a serious failure in government.

13/11/16
Author: 
kvtu
Unions break with AFL-CIO, protest Dakota Access Pipeline

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) - Hundreds of union members and supporters gathered outside of a Wells Fargo branch in downtown Oakland this afternoon to call on the bank to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline, an oil pipeline project in North
Dakota that has become a flash point for environmental and Native American advocates.

"No Dakota Access Pipeline, water is life," the protesters chanted as they arrived, referring to concerns that the project could pollute drinking water in the area, including on land occupied by the Standing Rock
Sioux tribe.

11/11/16
Author: 
Nika Knight
"This is terrifying for science, research, education, and the future of our planet," one scientist tweeted after the results came in. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Climate change denier promises to bring in new era for coal, pull U.S. out of international climate commitments

Hours after the stunning U.S. presidential election returns showed an avowed climate change denier chosen for the nation's highest office, environmentalists around the world grappled with what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for the planet.

10/11/16
Author: 
Vijay Prashad
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their supporters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline protesting at the site of construction near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S., on September 3. Photo:Robyn Beck/AFP

Native Americans protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multibillion venture by a corporation to carry crude and natural gas across four States that has dangerous environmental implications, face brutal state violence. But they are determined to fight on. By VIJAY PRASHAD

10/11/16
Author: 
George Monbiot

The High Court judgement on air pollution is an opportunity to rethink our whole transport system.

published in the Guardian 9th November 2016

10/11/16
United Against Pipelines Across Canada
CALL TO ACTION
 
Don't let them play "good pipeline, bad pipeline." From coast to coast to coast, let's show them we're United Against Pipelines. 
 
Quebec is bringing reinforcements in B.C.'s fight to stop Kinder Morgan. Let's return the favour for their fight against Energy East. 
 
Please take a moment today to share this new, bilingual effort to link up those resisting tar sands pipelines across the country. 
 
10/11/16
Author: 
Union of BC Indian Chiefs

NEWS RELEASE

November 10th, 2016

 

Nov. 19th Call to Action: Stand in Solidarity with Land and Water Defenders

(Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, B.C. – November 8th, 2016) The Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) calls upon our friends and allies across Turtle Island to stand with us at on November 19th to defend our land and our environment against the expansion of the Tar Sands at the expense of our territories.

09/11/16
Author: 
Chris Hatch
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/11/08/opinion/editorial-ocean-protection-now-code-oilsands-pipelines-and-tanker-traffic

The political strategists think they have things lined up.

Trudeau’s announcement of “world-leading” marine safety measures will satisfy B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s insistence on “world-leading” oil spill response.

Approval for the Kinder Morgan pipeline will bring Alberta Premier Rachel Notley onside with a national climate plan and inoculate Trudeau against his father’s fate in “the West.”

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