Oil - Pipelines

25/04/16
Author: 
GORDON HOEKSTRA

Kinder Morgan’s $5.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has another hurdle to overcome.

It now must undergo a provincial review, the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office ordered this month.

24/04/16
Author: 
David Biello

[Webpage editor: In the orchestra plays on the Titanic category]:

Can Oil Companies Save the World from Global Warming?

Oil firms might pay to use CO2 emissions from power plants, but low petroleum prices could doom the effort

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24/04/16
Author: 
Antonia Juhasz
Remnants of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig on April 21, 2010. U.S. Coast Guard via Getty Images

As the legal cases against BP draw to a close, the risks of offshore oil drilling — and public opposition to it — grow

22/04/16
Author: 
Erin Flegg
Tsleil-Waututh First Nation Chief Maureen Thomas signs the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred. Photo by Erin Flegg.

First Nation whose territory is directly affected by pipeline development sign on to oppose tar sands development

18/04/16
Author: 
Paul Weinberg

April 13, 2016 - When Rachel Notley's NDP came to power last spring in Alberta, Gordon Laxer's book, After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians, on ecological renewal and Canadian petro-politics was already at the publisher. And so, he was given a week to do some major rewriting because he had not foreseen this political earthquake in the making.

15/04/16

[Webpage editor's introduction: Below are three articles about the Leap Manifesto and the NDP, first from the Jacobin.]


 

The impossible Dream

By Todd Gordon, Jacobin, April 15, 2016 

15/04/16
Author: 
Gary Engler

What is it with union and political ‘leaders’ who treat their members as if they were children not old enough to deal with reality?

15/04/16

[Four articles on the reaction to the Leap Manifesto, first from Rabble]

 

Rather than fearing the Leap Manifesto, let's bring on the debate

 

By Linda McQuaig, Rabble, April 15, 2016

 

That silly Leap Manifesto -- giving itself away right in the subtitle, which calls for "a Canada based on caring for the Earth and one another." No wonder it provoked fury and outrage.

14/04/16
Author: 
Gordon Hoekstra
Tugs assist a tanker at the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain terminal in Burnaby. JONATHAN HAYWARD / PNG

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation said Tuesday they have no intention of backing down in the face of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recently revealed support for Kinder Morgan’s $5.4-billion Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project.

The National Post reported Monday that the prime minister has told his senior lieutenants to draw up plans to make the Energy East pipeline and the Trans Mountain expansion a reality.

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