Oil - Pipelines

Canada urged to develop a plan to limit shipping emissions

01/11/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
International shipping was responsible for about two per cent of global energy-related emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency. Photo by Meghan Rodgers/USDA

October 27th 2020

Canada is being urged to develop a national plan to crack down on the carbon pollution from shipping vessels following heavy criticism over the outcome of international talks meant to address the issue.

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Federal agency orders Trans Mountain to halt use of trench boxes after worker killed in Edmonton

01/11/20
Author: 
Phil Heidenreich
Link: 
Global News

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Trans Mountain expansion hits snag, must re-start drilling beneath Thompson River in Kamloops

01/11/20
Author: 
James Peters
Link: 
CFJC Today
Trans Mountain expansion - File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)

Oct 29, 2020

KAMLOOPS — Trans Mountain (TMX) has had a major setback in its expansion project through Kamloops.

The pipeline twinning includes a segment beneath the Thompson River that must be installed after Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is completed.

In a statement emailed to CFJC Today, Trans Mountain says installation of the pipe in the segment beneath the river encountered “technical challenges” that require the entire HDD process to be restarted.

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Trans Mountain expansion may not be economically viable, says think tank report

30/10/20
Author: 
David Thurton
Link: 
CBC News
Oct 29, 2020
Workers unload pipe to start right-of-way construction for the Trans Mountain expansion project in Acheson, Alta., Dec. 3, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson)
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O’Regan says he will ‘monitor’ methane rules. Critics say it’s time to strengthen them

30/10/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan, seen here in September, says “the regulations ... were established using our best available data, and forecasts will change over time...” Photo via SeamusORegan/Twitter

October 30th 2020

Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan says Canada will look “very closely” at whether to tighten rules around a potent form of carbon pollution if “future data and modelling” convinces him it’s warranted.

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New report questions Trans Mountain expansion’s ‘Asian markets’ rationale

30/10/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer

October 30th 2020

A new study is questioning one of the central rationales for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project — that it would allow Canada to fetch a fair price for its oil.

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Carbon Taxes, Subsidies and Elon Musk's Unbelievably Simple 12-minute Killer Break Down on Climate Change

30/10/20
Author: 
Elon Musk
Link: 
youtube
Elon Musk at the Sorbonne

[Editor: This really is a very good piece on climate change and what to do about it!]

May 31, 2016

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Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project

29/10/20
Author: 
David Hughes
Link: 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
report cover - Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project

Production forecasts, economics and environmental considerations

OCTOBER 29, 2020
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Canada’s Only Social-Democratic Government Has Been Decisively Reelected in British Columbia

28/10/20
Author: 
Derrick O'Keefe
Link: 
Jacobin Magazine
New Democratic Party premier John Horgan speaking in Comox, British Columbia, 2017. (BC NDP / Flickr)

Oct. 28, 2020

British Columbia remains the only province in Canada governed by the New Democratic Party (NDP), after the social democrats won a decisive election on Saturday, October 24. Even with several ridings too close to call, and hundreds of thousands of mail-in votes still to be counted, the NDP’s lead is insurmountable, with the party leading or elected in fifty-five ridings, nearly double the BC Liberals’ twenty-nine.

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British Columbia
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'Scale is important' Cenovus CEO says of massive deal for Husky

28/10/20
Author: 
Chris Varcoe
Link: 
Calgary Herald
The Bow building headquarters for Cenovus Energy was photographed on Sunday, October 25, 2020. Cenovus Energy is buying Husky Energy for $23.6 billion the companies said in a joint announcement on Sunday. PHOTO BY GAVIN YOUNG/POSTMEDIA

Oct 26, 2020 

A new wave of oilpatch consolidation has been widely expected since oil prices cratered this spring, undercutting share prices and piling debt onto Canadian petroleum producers.

Some smaller deals have unfolded this fall, but Cenovus Energy’s mammoth $3.8-billion acquisition of integrated producer Husky Energy on Sunday lit the fuse on the biggest corporate takeover in Canada’s oilpatch in several years.

And there will likely be more deals to come.

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