Oil - Pipelines

03/11/16
Author: 
West Coat Environmental Law

For Immediate Release - November 3, 2016

 

Ministerial Panel report raises serious questions about Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tanker project


 

VANCOUVER, BC, Coast Salish Territories – A report released today by the Ministerial Panel that conducted recent public meetings on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker proposal must lead to a rejection by Federal Cabinet, say environmental lawyers.

 

03/11/16
Author: 
Claudia Cattaneo

[Wepage editor's note: A law to INCREASE emissions from 66 to 100 megatons is not a cap, it is legalized climate vandalism.]

 

Nov 1, 2016 - Alberta’s NDP government moved to put into law Tuesday the costliest aspect of its climate leadership plan – a 100 megatonne-a-year cap on emissions from the oilsands.

The hope is the hard cap that will strand some of the resource will win federal permits for pipelines and Alberta recognition for sacrificing its most valuable asset.

02/11/16
Author: 
Seble Samuel
Silent protesters disrupt a Nov. 1 speech by Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna in Ottawa, urging the federal government to reject a west coast crude oil pipeline expansion project. Photo by Mike De Souza.

We were said to have left behind the relics of a decade of environmentally gutted Conservative leadership. That scrapped environmental legislation, heavy collusion between politicians and the fossil fuel industry, diluting credibility of Canada's National Energy Board (NEB), and murky masses of fossil fuel subsidies were remnants of the past. Instead, the Liberal era would be one of climate hope, of revamped environmental assessments, tossed pipeline proposals, fossil fuel subsidy phase-outs, and renewable energy landscapes.

02/11/16
Author: 
Jay Reeves, Jeff Martin & National Observer
A deadly explosion on a gasoline pipeline, owned in part by the Quebec pension fund, has rocked Northern Alabama. Photo by the Associated Press.

One worker is dead and five others injured following an explosion on a major pipeline in Alabama.

02/11/16
Author: 
Concerned Professional Engineers

Please view Concerned Professional Engineer’s (CPE) 2 minute animation regarding the possibility of tanker collisions with Vancouver’s Second Narrows Bridges.

 

31/10/16
Author: 
Mark Hume
The Heiltsuk Nation, which relies on beaches near the tug accident site, has called the situation a disaster. (April Bencze/Heiltsuk Nation)

Crews fighting to contain fuel leaking from a sunken tug near Bella Bella, B.C., have had to deal with just the kind of conditions predicted in a spill response analysis filed with the National Energy Board in the Trans Mountain pipeline hearings.

That analysis warned that if an oil spill occurred on the West Coast during winter months, high winds, turbulent seas and delays in response time could combine to make it impossible for crews to recover more than 15 per cent of spilled oil.

31/10/16
Author: 
Sarah Lazare

Police departments around the country are sending reinforcements to North Dakota to support mining companies.

31/10/16
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

85 FIRST NATIONS AND TRIBES CONDEMN ENBRIDGE’S ROLE IN THE VIOLATIONS AT STANDING ROCK AND CALL ON TRUDEAU TO SPEAK OUT

For Immediate Release

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