Oil - Pipelines

19/01/21
Author: 
Naveena Sadasivam
Image - pipeline protest - Grist / Kryssia Campos / spooh / Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Earlier this week, with national attention focused on accountability for the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the capitol building in Washington, D.C., Ohio quietly became the 13th state since 2017 to legislate harsher penalties for trespassing on or otherwise interfering with energy and industrial infrastructure — a move that activists and civil liberties groups say is a transparent attempt to criminalize nonviolent protest.

18/01/21
Author: 
Seth Klein
Justin Trudeau’s long-awaited bill seeking to embed new greenhouse gas reduction targets into law provides virtually nothing in the way of robust accountability. Photo by Al.T Photography

January 15th 2021

“Winning slowly on climate is just another way of losing.”

— Bill McKibben, climate writer and co-founder of 350.org

 

05/01/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan closed out the year by buying a controlling interest in a fossil gas pipeline company in Italy, with an OTPP official claiming the deal is a “low- or zero-carbon” investment.

21/12/20
Author: 
Lost Creek Protection Camp
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, DECEMBER 20th 2020

After demolition of Homes Creek Camp, a new occupation has begun in pipeline path near Brunette River.

21/12/20
Author: 
Chris Campbell
According to that protest camp’s organizers, Timothee Govare, with the help of a small crew, has now climbed to a 20-metre-high perch near the same area and that he plans to remain.Submitte

Dec. 19, 2020

With Trans Mountain work suspending, protesters have moved back in after camp was cleared out

Someone has re-occupied a forested Burnaby area in the way of the Trans Mountain pipeline project just days after all work on the project was stopped due to safety issues.

On Dec. 9, a protest treehouse called the Holmes Creek Protection Camp was cleared out of a wooded area just west of North Road and south of Highway 1 in Burnaby.

21/12/20
Author: 
Chad Pawson
 
Workers with the SA Energy Group work on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in this undated photo. (Trans Mountain)
19/12/20
Author: 
Jeff Lewis
TODD KOROL / REUTERS Suncor Energy president and CEO Mark Little speaks at the TD Securities Calgary Energy Conference in Calgary, July 9, 2019.

06/02/2020

Alberta's bitumen can be used to produce carbon fibre for electric vehicles, Little points out.

TORONTO (Reuters) ― The shift to electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies could disrupt crude oil demand on a similar scale to the coronavirus pandemic, Suncor Energy Inc.’s chief executive said on Monday.

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