Oil - Pipelines

If ever there was a need for decisive action by world leaders, it is now. That is because if we have not already passed the point of no return, we are perilously close.

Yet COP27 produced no commitment to phase out oil and gas production. No commitment to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

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The renewable energy transition is failing

29/11/22

Author:

Richard Heinberg

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Canadian Dimension

A large white rooftop covered in solar panels. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.

Nov. 22, 2022

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada doesn’t appear to have a plan to welcome climate migrants

26/11/22

Author:

Daphné Dossios

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Ricochet Media

Nov. 24, 2022

COP27 ends with a new promise from wealthy nations to help pay losses and damages to developing countries

Growing up in Ghana, Jamima Baada watched her community, including members of her own family, migrate from one region to another less impacted by climate change.

Now she teaches climate change and human migration at the University of British Columbia.

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The Dirty Dozen: ‘Carbon bombs’ threaten to blow up Canada’s climate commitments

23/11/22

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Nicholas Gottlieb, graphics by Elysse Deveaux

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Ricochet Media

The Dirty Dozen: ‘Carbon bombs’ threaten to blow up Canada’s climate commitments

Website Editor: A great summary of Canada's fossil fuels situation and politics in this article.

Nov. 22, 2022

Canada wants to be the last country producing fossil fuels, even if it kills us

COP27 is over. The UN summit took one big step forward on climate justice with the creation of a loss and damage fund for the most impacted nations, while taking two enormous steps backwards by failing to call for a phaseout of all fossil fuels.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Carbon trading: A tool for reconciliation or colonization?

23/11/22

Author:

Matteo Cimellaro

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National Observer

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger at a protest at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Deranger critiques how carbon markets may affect Indigenous nations. Photo by John Woodside / Canada's National Observer

Nov. 23, 2022

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger’s home community of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is in what she calls a “sacrifice zone.” The nation borders the oil production epicentre of Canada: the oilsands, which leak toxic chemicals and wreak havoc on local ecosystems.

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How much of Canada’s ongoing climate failure is caused by oil and gas industry pollution?

22/11/22

Author:

Barry Saxifrage

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National Observer

Nov. 21, 2022

Canada's failure to reduce climate pollution has left us far behind most of our peer nations. The primary cause of this failure has been surging emissions from our oil and gas industry. Unfortunately, it’s not the only Canadian sector with stubbornly rising emissions.

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Climate Disinformation Campaign was Birthed in Canada, Journalist Finds

19/11/22

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Primary Author: Munisha Tumato

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The Energy Mix

Nov. 16, 2022

Extensive research conducted in the early 1990s yielded a practical solution to the climate crisis that would have averted the mushrooming environmental havoc the world faces today, says journalist Geoff Dembicki—but it was buried by Imperial Oil, using a canary-in-the-coal mine report to launch a disinformation campaign that effectively blocked early mitigation of the crisis.

This is among many shocking, yet unsurprising, revelations from Dembicki’s new book, The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change.

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Environment minister says emissions cap on oil and gas coming by end of 2023

19/11/22

Author:

Mia Rabson

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National Observer

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault is seen during a news conference in Ottawa, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Nov. 15, 2022

A cap on greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil and gas sector will be ready by the end of next year, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday.

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Oil - Pipelines

Former premier John Horgan said CGL is ‘fully permitted’ and DRIPA is ‘forward looking.’ So what about the three other projects authorized for the North?

COP27 ends with a new promise from wealthy nations to help pay losses and damages to developing countries

Canada wants to be the last country producing fossil fuels, even if it kills us

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